Kids' Dalek video

Posted by Cory Doctorow, September 12, 2008 1:05 AM | permalink

Steve sez,

This is really lovely... just bumped into it while looking for Dr Who clips on youtube with my recently-Dr-Who-obsessed-6-yr-old son who is filling in the essential history/backstory of the doctor!
Homebrew movie (6:43) a family made while on holiday.
- Gets the tone just right.
- Re-uses themes/scenes from the recent end of series 2-parter with Davros/Daleks/many-companions.
- Wonderful low-fi special-FX (flying daleks, sound FX, EXPLOSIONS!)
- watch for the credits at the end.
Fave part: 3 yr old Davros wearing a "Mr Happy" t-shirt!

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#1 posted by tenbull , September 12, 2008 1:07 AM

The expression on that grandmothers face in the beginning was priceless!

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#2 posted by dewexdewex , September 12, 2008 1:27 AM

Fantasticoidz!

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#3 posted by vetlemakt , September 12, 2008 1:34 AM

If the internet only consisted of this kind of heart-warming videos, I'd move inside. Loved it!

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#4 posted by arkizzle , September 12, 2008 1:35 AM

Brilliant!

That was great, and the effects and acting were levels of magnitude better than so much crap on TV.

Well done, all involved!

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#5 posted by harpdevil , September 12, 2008 2:12 AM

I loved this so much, and i completely agree with Vetlemakt. Post all your comments on the video itself so the kids can see how much we all love it, I bet they'd like that.

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#6 posted by Thinkerer , September 12, 2008 3:57 AM

Wonderful -- The special effects were better than the BBC originals!

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#7 posted by membrain , September 12, 2008 5:17 AM

Yes very cute, by all participants! I wanna hug em all..

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#8 posted by DrHackworth , September 12, 2008 5:21 AM

very sweet. Reminds me of the wonderful film 'Son of Rambow'... kind of a slightly higher budget version of the same idea...

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#9 posted by dtaylo75 , September 12, 2008 5:38 AM

Excellent! Tom Baker would be proud!

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#10 posted by eustace , September 12, 2008 6:37 AM

Not the donkey! Aaauugh!
Another incarnation of the Doctor - and right up there with Tom Baker!

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#11 posted by franko , September 12, 2008 6:47 AM

riveting! who says kids don't play anymore??

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#12 posted by scionofgrace , September 12, 2008 6:49 AM

Awwww!

That was amazingly cute. The boys were so adorable! Somebody did a great job putting this together. Scary, isn't it, how the effects are as good as a lot of Classic Who?

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#13 posted by MichaelRN , September 12, 2008 7:18 AM

"Many thanks to those who agreed to be exterminated."

/me sheds tears of joy.

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#14 posted by Evil Paul

, September 12, 2008 7:44 AM

ARGH! SPOILERS!

MY EYES! MY EYES!

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#15 posted by mulderjoe , September 12, 2008 7:52 AM

That was fantastic! Really cute, great special effects. I want to do one with my own kids...what editing software did you use????

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#16 posted by Anonymous , September 12, 2008 8:18 AM

KTEH - the PBS in San Jose - is organizing a Dr. Who fan video contest. Should be happening in a month or so. The local Legion of Rasillon is planning some entries. I've already seen one YouTube video of a San Francisco apartment invaded by The Ood.
The BBC seems much cooler about letting fan culture do their thing - which of course keeps people loving the shows instead developing the same resentment people have towards the record companies.

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#17 posted by zapan , September 12, 2008 8:47 AM

Looks like they did this during they vacations in France, the houses looks like the ones in Provence or Luberon.

More and more brits in those regions, these days (to my pleasure, they bring they cute daugthers).

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#18 posted by Keith , September 12, 2008 11:59 AM

Way better than "Torchwood"

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#19 posted by sammich , September 13, 2008 9:22 PM

zapan @ 17 - I thought Cornwall, mainland UK, but historically and culturally linked to Brittany in the north of France...
I'm a *teeny* bit bothered by your interest in their "daugthers" (sic) (sick?) ...

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#20 posted by sammich , September 13, 2008 9:28 PM

zapan @ 17 - I reckon you're right - it is France - but you're still sick...

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#21 posted by padster123 , September 14, 2008 9:00 AM

#19… no way is it Cornwall: way too dry. Has to be somewhere much further south.

Anyway, the video is quality, and I raise my hat to whoever put it all together. Nice one.