Some of the Olympic Fireworks were CGI?

Some of the Olympic Fireworks were CGI?

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If you watched the Opening Ceremony on Friday night, chances are you said something like, "no way that's possible" at least once. It turns out you were right.

London's Telegraph newspaper reports that some of the fireworks which appeared over Beijing during the television broadcast of the Olympic Opening Ceremony were actually computer generated.

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[edit on 8/10/2008 by JacKatMtn]

Well! This is interesting. Here we have an MSM admission that the "real" images we see on TV aren't actually so!

OF course this was probably done in a smear-China kind of way, but just the admission on the general airwaves that it can, and is, doable surprises me.

Evidently this was done because of safety concerns, but I question how this technology is used in, say, war reporting.

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[edit on 11/8/2008 by watch_the_rocks]

The article says that the fireworks were prerecorded at a stadium and then that footage was place over the opening ceremony footage. This really doesnt bother me or scare me in the least bit. Just a simple Hollywood special effect.

[edit on 8/11/2008 by JesterMan]

The Paper tiger strikes again...


I saw this a couple hours ago...

With a war going on, i thought it wasnt worth posting...

Since you did though...

Ill just say its another action of the Paper Tiger...

Read into that as you will..

I actually think it's kind of cool. Although it does go to show how far people will go to entertain the masses.

-ChriS

It is a bit of a cheat.

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[edit on 11/8/2008 by watch_the_rocks]

This is one of those damn if you do, damn if you don't situations. If it were real fireworks and an arial accident occurred; worst yet, someone dies. Can you imagine the western media for that story?

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well if china can broadcast something and say it live footage then whats stopping other countrys doing the same..i'm thinking man on the moon or 9-11...

Yeah, I agree I don't like it. It was fake.

I would like to know the exact facts about how many were real and how many were arrays (copies laid out in a geometric pattern).

I watched the show on TV and I was thinking damn that's the best & biggest show I've ever seen. I never considered it was faked - I'm disappointed and feel cheated by NBC for not telling the truth at the time. I was thinking damn those Chinese make the fireworks that we see at most of our 4th of July & new years shows, so it makes sense. Though there were a few moments they did look too good and too similar - I thought it was just great fireworks tech, but I'm disappointed it's computer tech.

I'm waiting for someone with a report of them using holographic fireworks, now that would start the conspiracy stuff going.

[edit on 11-8-2008 by verylowfrequency]

Originally posted by fatdad
well if china can broadcast something and say it live footage then whats stopping other countrys doing the same..i'm thinking man on the moon or 9-11...

Thats what i was thinking,people said they saw planes hitting buildings on 9/11 and i believe them but what was on the news could have been computer graphics..who knows.

Spectacular show i must say,i didn't think for a minute it wasn't real

The fireworks were real, not faked.

Check this video out first
tw.youtube.com...

and then think about it, one hundred world leaders and 100000 people were sitting there inside the stadium. Do you just show them a big screen to watch fireworks?


For your president's safety, the fireworks on TV were also real but not live (prerecorded). Several helicopters were needed to recored the fireworks, if one driver went mad, Mr. Bush might get killed. The ceremony from NBC was not live anyway, so why do you care?

This is what the Beijing Times said,who broke the story

(Part of the elaborate Olympics fireworks show broadcast to the world in the opening ceremony was altered, done digitally in 3-D computer graphics, according to several news reports.

While the dramatic display actually happened as portrayed on television, members of the Beijing Olympic Committee said it was necessary to replace live video with computer-generated imagery because the city’s hazy, smoggy skies made it too difficult to see, according to The Beijing Times, which first reported the story)

Thanks to redchina for showing those clips from the ground,it looked realy amazing from that low angle too!

LOL at someone here calling China a paper tiger!There far from it,well on the way to becoming the next super power

I just did a basic search and this video shows live personal footage of fireworks. This was what I saw on TV.

tw.youtube.com...

The article was just a hit piece. Western media just doesn't like China.

reply to post by redchina


That video proves it.

Unless redchina is ALSO presenting a doctored film...

And since you litterly JUST JOINED today, don't hate us for talking what you say with a grain of salt...

AND, your only posts are saying that this is NOT faked...

Do you have any other opinions? Or thoughts? Or, did you manage to just stuble acros this website, and HAPPEN to stuble onto 2 threads, where YOU HAPPEN to have a youtube video of this...

Im just saying...

I knew the footsteps sequence was faked when I saw it.

It didn't look right. Too sharp and well timed. Didn't look right at all.

Not only were the fireworks faked, but they faked a little girl because the girl singing was not pretty enough for television.

By CARA ANNA, Associated Press Writer

The real singer, 7-year-old Yang Peiyi, with her chubby face and crooked baby teeth, wasn’t good looking enough for the ceremony, its chief music director told state-owned Beijing Radio.

So the pigtailed Lin Miaoke, a veteran of television ads, mouthed the words with a pixie smile for a stadium of 91,000 and a worldwide TV audience.

[edit on 12-8-2008 by verylowfrequency]

To be honest I'm not surprised.... Kind of a 'quick grab their attention, make them forget about all of Chinas bad things...' kind of attitude.



And in my opinion it isn't the only thing they 'cheated' at either at this olympics....

I reckon it's totally a cheat.

Equally disturbing to the fireworks is the fact that the little girl who sang Ode to The Motherland lip-sync'd. www.nzherald.co.nz...

Where to draw the line? Why not just blue-screen the whole damn thing and have a cameo by Jar Jar Binks?



[edit on 12/8/08 by Fuggle]