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Remember When Department
Mainstream media covering JACKO’s ongoing legal woes like to wallpaper their reports with the singer’s early performances. Among the more popular backgrounds FILM provides is a circa 1970s Post brand Alpha-Bits cereal spot showing off a young (physiologically original) Michael Jackson and his tuneful brothers. The JACKSON FIVE sing the praises of breakfast using their tres apropos hit, “ABC (123).” CNN, EXTRA, and ACCESS HOLLYWOOD are among clients frequently harkening back to Jackson’s salad days.
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FILM Enlivens Dawn Of The Dead Remake
The world is ending (overrun by zombies!) in DAWN OF THE DEAD, the new version of the George Romero sequel to NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD. What better way to illustrate that creepy scenario than with footage of riots, explosions, floods, volcanoes, and other apocalyptic nightmares from the FILM Archives news library?
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Run For Your Lives: (More) SPONGEBOB Is Coming!
In a recent promo touting top rated Nickelodeon cartoon SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS, FILM was asked to come up with the most scared crowds ever to run in panic at the coming of new episodes starring that loveable underwater cut up. We did our duty, delivering some of the most petrified crowds ever seen above or beneath the sea.
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Rare Nazi-Era German Newsreels
Here's something we're sure you haven't seen on the History Channel, at least not yet: A rare collection of German produced WWII-era documentary shorts. The shorts depict diverse events, including Adolph Hitler reviewing the German farming corps (the men march with shovels instead of rifles) and nature studies of two beetles in mortal combat.
According to the original film cans, the material was produced in the late 1930s and early 1940s by "Reichsanstalt fur film und bild in Wissens chaft und Unterricht" (RWU) and provides a glimpse into wartime German life at home and abroad. Similar in structure and scope to the American newsreels and educational films of the era, some of the more interesting footage depicts a reconnaissance flight in which pilots are instructed in the event of enemy attack to swiftly fill any gaping holes in their planes with "a sock or a heavy muffler."
Sample a fascinating recreation of a jousting tournament (complete with Knight helped into a suit of armor by two seconds), trips to Thailand and Cameroon (where many war time supplies were manufactured), and rare footage of a Lufthansa passenger plane being prepped for takeoff (aided by stewardesses who eagerly wash the planes' windows). These are just a small number of the striking images available throughout the RWU collection.
Email or call us (212-696-2616) for a screener of the RWU reels.
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Insomniac Gets Kiloton Wake Up Call
Comedy Central’s current nighttime lineup, including INSOMNIAC, THE CHAPPELLE SHOW, and STRAIGHT PLAN FOR THE GAY MAN, have all discovered that footage makes punchy episodes even punchier. STRAIGHT PLAN recently delved into our vault of vintage slaughterhouses to teach the week’s subject what life is like in the slaughterhouse. Dave Chappelle requested a modern hospital emergency room, while an atom bomb explosion kept viewers awake during INSOMNIAC’s Nevada shoot.
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‘Brainwashing’ Video From FILM Archives
A “brainwashing” clinic features our vintage and contemporary video running on monitors in a scene from the remade cold war classic MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE starring Denzel Washington. Producers chose calming scenes of tropical paradises and unnerving views of animals in peril to demonstrate that with the right imagery, anyone or thing can be turned into a killing machine--or a docile citizen.
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SNL’s TV Funhouse Simultaneously Spoofs Gibson Movie And Bush Campaign Ads
Using FILM Archives’ goofy old cartoons and funny animal stunts as cover, Saturday Night Live’s TV Funhouse animated segment pulled off a convoluted but hilarious satire of all the hubbub surrounding Mel Gibson’s “Passion” and President George W. Bush’s campaign ads. SNL resident comic Robert Smigel took off on the Gibson film by inserting the director’s audio commentary over his latest effort, “The Passion of the Dumpty.” Cut to a graphic cartoon of poor Humpty getting the yolk kicked out of him. Turns out this “documentary” is “sponsored” by the Bush campaign! The spoof is quickly followed by several other “campaign ads” featuring knockabout cartoon images, dogs dressed like people, and cats boxing.
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FILM Archives Footage Still King Of Late Night
Pick a show, any show aired after 11 p.m. and chances are the vintage footage you see illustrating a tongue-in-cheek story on COMEDY CENTRAL'S DAILY SHOW, a hard-hitting story on ABC NEWS NIGHTLINE, or a hard to believe story on LATE NIGHT WITH CONAN O'BRIEN came from the FILM Archives collection.
"Nearly every big late night show is a major client of ours," said Mark Trost, FILM Archives President." On any given evening you can see our footage on at least three to five shows if you have the right combination of over-the-air and cable channels."
While nightime is the right time to catch clips of three fat guys putting on their pants (a LATE SHOW WITH DAVID LETTERMAN favorite) or monkeys doing what comes naturally (a strangely repeated request from the Conan O'Brien folks), FILM Archives footage isn't strictly a not-ready-for-prime-time-affair. "We do tons of work with prime time newsmags like NBC's DATELINE and ABC's 20/20," Trost noted. " But it just seems that broadcasters who work late like our footage best."
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