Excellent short film made from public domain footage
Mental_Floss magazine has an article about debilitating parasites and to promote, they made a wonderful short film made from public domain footage.
The 1930's Universal Pictures style logo is wonderful!
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"Teenagers From Outer Space" ( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053337/ ) is public domain?
Yes, it is in the public domain: http://www.archive.org/details/teenagers_from_outerspace
That was great. Is there a collection somewhere on the internet of public domain stock footage anywhere? I'm making a "film" and I need some old nature scenes, from those old nature videos.
Mark,
Common sense says that if you use the word "WONDERFUL" enough it will begin to lose all meaning.
When I see the word "WONDERFUL" I think of profound spiritual insights or paintings like Van Gogh's "Sunflowers"
This Universal Pictures logo is...nice.
Have a wonderful day!
To me, it is wonderful. Watching this, and the RKO pictures openers, gives me a near-religious experience. Go ahead and pity me, but to me, Van Gogh's "Sunflowers" is...nice.
Mark,
No I don't pity you...
As good old Terence McKenna used to say:
"...the way we change language and evolve is by saying new things in new ways..."
This opening video logo could have been described as "spherically satisfying" or "stimulating to my frontal lobe"
By using the same 4 or 5 words (great! - wonderful! - good!) to describe various events and objects of beauty or aesthetic worth, we're allowing our language (and ourselves) to stagnate and eventually die off.
Once again...if movie logos, Van Gogh paintings, plush toys and iPods are all equally "wonderful" then the English language is really on it's way out.
Use it (language) or lose it!
Mark,
Very cool - they did a great job evoking the feel of a '50s B-Movie trailer. I'm a big fan of stock footage films. In Seattle stockstock.org holds a semi-annual competition, where entrants are given an identical 30 minutes of random footage and have to craft a coherent short film. Feel free to check out my entry from the 2005 competition http://www.atomfilms.com/film/american_infant.jsp
Cool stuff. We're completing a feature comedy made from found footage bought on eBay. You can check out our (not workplace friendly) blog at http://ebay-movie.blogspot.com
@ Father Brown
Nice is hardly even a word anymore. It something you say through a forced smile. The law of diminishing returns will wear any word away over time. Look at "awesome", it's in even worse shape than wonderful. Instead of lamenting the diminishment of wonderful, just steal another word from the French to replace it. That's the real power of the English language, its speakers are shameless magpies.
Dear Wonderful Tricon,
For wonderful stock footage archive.org is the most wonderful on the internet. Really! Its wonderful!'
Best of luck with your film.
I'm sure it will be wonderful.
Rob
Tricon,
The Prelinger Archives is a great source for public domain clips.
There used to be a yearly contest called Stockstock to make short films out of Prelinger clips, but they sadly seem to have discontinued it.
One of my creations for the contest was Auntie G.
@ Father Brown:
Don't be a douche.
I hope that was sufficiently unambiguous.
I did something similar to this for a promo for podcasts.(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSGrHT7cpt4) I only used a single movie as source and didn't put nearly as much effort into the editing. But I'm a writer, not an editor.
It's also worth noting that there's a significant amount of public domain music for use as well.