Thread: Pepper's Ghost video

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Does anyone have a source of video for a graveyard pepper's ghost and a spooky ghost or ghosts in a window? I'm going with a haunted ship storyline. A spooky ghost captain would be perfect. Thanks in advance!

I can see this was a needed item for a number of people as yourself, some of our video /CGI providers have a hole to fill for next year.......
I have a few to offer you, but not really "spooky", more like spirit of lady waiting for her captain to return from sea...... & a skull ablaze.......... all CGI,......no capt's.

I tried one of these a couple of years ago from a second story bedroom window. Mine was a little too faint. If I didn't point it out, you probably wouldn't have noticed it, but it did look cool, just too faint. I read how they made the effect of the flying ghosts at the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark (the first Indiana Jones movie for those of you too young to remember). What I did was I found some little full body skeletons. They came in a set like a string of lights, but without lights, or better described as skeleton garland. They are pretty detailed skeletons about four inches tall. I took one of them off the string, cut the legs and arms off so I was left with the torso, neck and head. I then glued shredded white tissue paper over it like a flowing hood and cape. I took a ten gallon fish tank filled with water and put cardboard I'd painted flat black on the two sides and back. I shined a light in from above to light the inside of the tank. I then glued a long very thin dowel rod I'd painted flat black, about the thickness of a chopstick to the top of it's head using hot glue. I set up my cheap hand held video camera in front of the fish tank's glass and filmed as I floated the little skeletal marionette around in the water. I experimented with the movements until it looked as if he would fly up to the front of the tank to the camera, looking it over, then turning and flying away. I got several shots with him coming and going in and out of view frame. Using the MS Windows video creator that comes with pretty much all Windows OS', I linked several shots together, fading them in and out, and using a slow motion feature on all of them. When you burn it to a CD, then play it back with the brightness all the way down and the contract all the way up, the tank, the water, the stick, and everything else painted black completely disappears. You're just left with this pretty creepy looking ghost skeleton flying through the room, up to the window, looking out over the yard, then flying away as it evaporates into thin air. As you can imagine the shreds of tissue paper under water really came alive and floated as if something ghostly was happening. It was really cool, but like I said, not as bright as I would have liked. I needed a better monitor source such as a projector rather than a television turned on it's back. Anyway, I know it's a bit of a project, but you can get some really cool pepper's ghost material if you take the time.