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Frank Herbert video out now for Patrons! (Patreon)

Published:

2025-03-29 05:24:37

Edited:

2025-04-02 22:44:29

Imported:

2026-06

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Dune

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WE1lvSMD86M

We’re back!

For the last six months, this Patreon was paused, so you weren’t charged. We took some time off – but we also worked on videos.

A year ago, I was reading about the author of Dune, Frank Herbert. I learned all these crazy anecdotes, like Frank’s journey to Mexico in a hearse, and his wind turbine invention, and his paranormal interests… So I starting making a video about Frank. At first, I thought it would be a short “Ten Wild Facts about the Author of Dune” type video. But I kept researching, and ended up making this 40-minute documentary. Oops. I hope you like it!

We’ve never made a biographical non-fiction video before. So I tried hard to get the facts straight. I did a lot of research into Frank’s books, biographies, old interviews and articles. I was careful to cite my sources. The video editing was also a challenge – most of our videos use clips from TV shows and fan art – but for this historical video, we mostly just had old photos.

I’d like to hear your feedback! We might make small tweaks to the video before it’s released publicly. For now, it’s only available to Patreon supporters.

With the Frank video done, I want to finish the Fighters of Dune video, and the Destination: Void video. (Which are already 90% done). Then The Real Dune Part Two and The Philosophy of Dune videos. We’ll also cover the new Game of Thrones spinoff show, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, and House of the Dragon Season 3, when they come out. So there is a lot to come!

The whole reason we’re making Dune videos is because of a Patreon vote in 2020, when Patrons chose Dune as the topic for an Alt Shift X video. I figured we’d make one Dune video. But now, four years later, we’ve made several massive videos about Dune and Herbert, with more coming! These videos exist because of your support on Patreon – thank you!

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Files

Author of Dune: Frank Herbert’s extraordinary life [early Patreon version]

What are the origins of Dune? This is the extraordinary story of Frank Herbert. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/AltShiftX BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/altshiftx.bsky.social Twitter: https://twitter.com/altshiftx More Dune videos: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLn6yDpEottdhFF2-g3nUHas_JU8M6nS0K Main sources/references: “Dreamer of Dune” by Brian Herbert (2003) “Frank Herbert” by Tim O’Reilly (1981): https://www.oreilly.com/tim/herbert/index.csp “The Maker of Dune” by Frank Herbert ed. Tim O'Reilly (1987) Additional sources: 1969 Willis E. McNelly interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-mLVVJkH7I http://www.sinanvural.com/seksek/inien/tvd/tvd2.htm 1971 Friends 23 interview 1976 Daniel DePrez interview 1977 Caedmon recording “The Banquet Scene” 1977 Peter Sean MacKenzie interview 1977 The Daily News interview 1977 WTTW PBS interview: https://www.pbs.org/video/archive-dune-author-frank-herbert-4ffhj4/ 1979 Future Life interview 1980 “Dream Makers” by Charles Platt 1980-07 “Dune Genesis” by Frank Herbert (Omni) 1981 The Environmentalist interview 1981 Mother Earth News interview: https://www.motherearthnews.com/nature-and-environment/frank-herbert-science-fiction-author-zmaz81mjzraw 1982 Bryant Gumbel NBC Today interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26GPaMoeiu4 1984 Jean Marie Stine interview Part 1: https://futurespast-editions.blogspot.com/2013/10/lost-interview-futuristic-meditations.html 1984 Jean Marie Stine interview Part 2: https://futurespast-editions.blogspot.com/2013/11/lost-interview-futuristic-meditations.html 1984-10 Psychology Today interview (Vol 18, Issue 10) 1985 “Eye” by Frank Herbert 1985 Knave interview 1985 Mile High Futures interview 1985 Stardate interview 1988 “Frank Herbert” by William Touponce 2000 January Magazine interview of Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson: https://januarymagazine.com/profiles/duneprofile.html 2005 “The Road to Dune” by Frank Herbert, Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson 2013 “Jodorowsky's Dune” 2024-12-14 “Ridley Scott’s Lost Dune Script Found”, IGN: https://www.ign.com/articles/ridley-scotts-lost-dune-script-found-i-dont-think-it-wouldve-made-fans-happy Many of the old interviews were posted online by The Augustry: https://theaugustry.com/frank-herbert-magazine-interview-sources/ And by Kwisatz on THE (ALMOST) UNDELETED: https://tau.solahpmo.com/viewtopic.php?t=1755 Frank Herbert’s six Dune books: Dune (1965), Dune Messiah (1969), Children of Dune (1976), God Emperor of Dune (1981), Heretics of Dune (1984), Chapterhouse: Dune (1985) Art by Aurélien Police: https://aurelienpolice.myportfolio.com/ Art by LindelinArtanis: https://www.deviantart.com/lindelinartanis Art by Marcin Basta: https://www.artstation.com/bastamarcin Art by Marc Simonetti: https://art.marcsimonetti.com/ Images and video used under fair use. Select imagery/video supplied by Getty Images. Alt Shift X tshirts, pins: https://store.nebula.app/collections/altshiftx Special thanks to Patrons Michael Appell, Harry, Shane Veglia, Tessa Campbell-Kelly, Tim Cunniff, Nicolas L. Pimenta, Paul Dayne, Zach. #Dune 0:00 Intro 1:25 Childhood 6:37 Wives 9:31 Influences 12:23 Politics 15:02 Trips 18:22 Fatherhood 21:18 Dune 25:46 Environmentalism 28:02 Hollywood 31:12 Hawaii 34:11 Final years 37:17 Conclusion