Film-Tech Forum ARCHIVE: Google's 2011 April Fool's joke

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Posted by Joshua Waaland (Member # 287) on 04-01-2011, 08:10 AM:

Check out Google G-Mail Motion. [Big Grin]

http://mail.google.com/mail/help/motion.html

Posted by Chris Slycord (Member # 4239) on 04-01-2011, 10:13 AM:

Also, youtube (which is owned by google for some time now) has a button on each video for allowing it to go into a mode like it's a movie from 1911. It adds stereotypical music that accompanied movies of the time period plus visual effects to make it look like an actual print. For being a real-time thing, it's pretty well-done.

Posted by Joshua Waaland (Member # 287) on 04-01-2011, 01:10 PM:

I saw the 1911 logo on the youtube home page but wasn't sure what it was about. I figured it had to do with April 1st but didn't see the tie in anywhere. I even watched a few videos, but didn't see the button that you described. I'll have to go back and check it out.

Posted by Chris Slycord (Member # 4239) on 04-01-2011, 01:23 PM:

Not every video has it for some reason. It's a joke saying that it takes you back to how videos were sent to youtube via horse-drawn carriage in 1911.

Posted by Mark Ogden (Member # 43) on 04-01-2011, 03:02 PM:

Speaking of April Fool's jokes: I can't help but wish these were for real.