The History of Brickfilms: The origins of the online LEGO animation community (2000 & 2001)

Prior to what effectively served as the death of the site in 2008 and the community from the time migrating to Bricks in Motion, brickfilming activity on the internet was primarily located at Brickfilms.com. The Brickfilms.com-era is usually defined by the likes of dynamic duo films, Leftfield Studios films, The Letter, Good Company, Grace, The Citizen of the Year, and many other classics, but in this video, we go way back to before any of those, and take a deep dive into the formation and earliest days of the site and community. The aim of this video is to demonstrate the extent to which brickfilming "arrived" during this point in time, with major visibility, growth, and the establishment of a community who were now interacting with each other and taking influence from each others' films. We also aim to demonstrate how what happened here is the beginning of a lineage that still continues through to this day. This is the fourth video in this series, and is the second we have made covering this point in time, as the full history of the LEGO Studios Steven Spielberg MovieMaker Set required its own video. For the previous videos in this history series, see this playlist: /playlist/PLiWw9dElHOz2scI5PVgn2PZ6H0WGkp7XU For the list of links to the films included in this video, see here: https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/post/391764/#p391764 For more, see this Brickfilms Wiki page: https://brickfilms.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_brickfilms_in_the_first_Brickfilms.com_directory Chapters: 0:00 Before Brickfilms.com 5:27 Launch of Brickfilms.com and early days 10:11 Media attention and growth 15:45 Star Wars brickfilms 18:54 Spite Your Face Productions 23:51 Further spread and expansion 29:09 Classical Movie Contest 32:18 The Gauntlet by Jay Silver 39:38 Later 2001 expansion, notable films, and controversies 46:15 Credits

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