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Remember When Department
Like Elvis and maybe more so, fans' continuing and ever-growing fascination with the late Michael Jackson's life and times generates ongoing requests for the King of Pop'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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Rising to the Challenge of RED DAWN
The North Koreans Are Coming! The North Koreans are Coming! Actually they are here, in force, in the reimagined remake of the classic 1984 feature RED DAWN! In this version, Kim Jong Il's armies strike at the heart of America. Producers asked FILM Archives to dig into its extensive news library for the film's elaborate opening title sequence, which tells a story of two decades of American decline, terror attacks, and the growing threat posed by North Korea. Watch a sample of the videos used to set the stage for invasion!
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We Team Up With World's Greatest Superheroes!
Comic book heroes are all over the big screen lately with their blockbuster
features and sequels. FILM has helped tell many of their heroic tales by giving the all-powerful good guys a little assistance in the stock footage department. We supplied THE GREEN LANTERN with vintage footage of historic flight milestones for playback during a party scene for test pilot/Lantern alter ego Hal Jordan. In THE GREEN HORNET, our news footage is headlined on TV screens in Britt Reid's Daily Sentinel offices. More heroic archival feats were performed for DC 75 (a documentary about Superman's publishers) and UNDER THE HOOD, a fictional superhero documentary appearing on the DVDs for the landmark feature THE WATCHMEN.
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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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1961 Orange Bowl Kinescope Shows President-elect Kennedy Meeting Crowd, Enjoying Game
Hard to imagine a President of the United States shaking hands with fans and watching a football game like any other attendee, but that was just the case on January 2, 1961 when President-elect JOHN F. KENNEDY decided to take in the Orange Bowl game pitting JFK's own Navy against Missouri. While footage of JFK attending the game was captured by newsreel cameras of the day, these 90 seconds were originally aired as part of the ORANGE BOWL broadcast. The Kennedy clip is now available for licensing from FILM Archives Inc. According to company president Mark Trost, the footage is actually a U.S. Navy production. “Since Navy played in the Bowl, the service thought it would be a good idea to take a kinescope of the event (which Missouri won 21-14) and cut it down to a fast-paced 30 minutes, showing all the plays and action and just a few cutaways to the crowd." Outside of the game, the President-elect gets most of the non-football coverage, although the Orange Bowl Queen and DEBBIE REYNOLDS come in a close second.
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