

The OG video filter before TikTok made it cringe.
In this segment, Dan Sandin demonstrates the routing of a camera signal through several basic modules of an Information Processor (IP), producing a "primitive" vocabulary of the effects specific to video.
Practical Effects
Hand-built analog circuits doing what GPUs still copy.
Direction
Sandin literally invented the tools while using them.
Director
Dan Sandin
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Sandin's Image Processor was open-source before that was a term—he published schematics and encouraged copying. The anti-Adobe.
This 'primitive vocabulary' directly influenced 1980s music videos and early CGI. You are looking at the grandmother of After Effects.
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