Latest addition to the channel:
A cross-promotion advert for the Sweet Home Famicom game and movie.
The film was quite unique for it's time for having not only having a game based on the movie (or is that movie based on the game?) released simultaneously but also because all the trailers and commercials included footage from both.
Sweet Home was directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa and produced by by Juzo Itami (who also had a small role in it).
This advert is taken from the original Japanese VHS for the film.
Wednesday, 19 August 2009
Sunday, 9 August 2009
Animation Grand Prix 2001
From another one of my video tapes almost a whole evening of short programmes on animation.
[These programmes are] from a four part late night series called 'Animation Grand Prix' from 2001. Shown on Channel 4 (UK) each weeks segment would be dedicated to a particular country showing short films and features along with non-country specific programmes. Regrettably I only taped the Japanese night, most of which I'm uploading here. Programmes shown on the night that I won't be uploading included a specially commissioned series by Adam and Joe (which has already been uploaded) and the premiere of anime Blood: The Last Vampire (2000).
The evening began with part one of Adam and Joes series on animation and then the first in a series of programmes where 5 animators had 3 days to make a one minute film (which I may upload later).
Actress Jessica Stevenson (Spaced) talks about some of her favourite animations including Top Cat (1961), Ralph Bakshi's Coonskin (aka Street Fight) (1975) and Mamoru Oshii's Ghost in the Shell (1995).
A short film on artist Mumble Boy.
A short CG animation by Satoshi Tomioka.
A short film on making 'anime music videos' (AMV) from back in the day when everything was sourced from good ol' VHS.
Another short from Satoshi Tomioka.
A short film looking at lesbian characters in anime.
After this came the premiere of Blood: The Last Vampire and a few more shorts which I didn't keep in the end. One of which I remember being a short that cut footage from Ninja Scroll with a group of monks having an orgy, very odd.
[These programmes are] from a four part late night series called 'Animation Grand Prix' from 2001. Shown on Channel 4 (UK) each weeks segment would be dedicated to a particular country showing short films and features along with non-country specific programmes. Regrettably I only taped the Japanese night, most of which I'm uploading here. Programmes shown on the night that I won't be uploading included a specially commissioned series by Adam and Joe (which has already been uploaded) and the premiere of anime Blood: The Last Vampire (2000).
The evening began with part one of Adam and Joes series on animation and then the first in a series of programmes where 5 animators had 3 days to make a one minute film (which I may upload later).
Actress Jessica Stevenson (Spaced) talks about some of her favourite animations including Top Cat (1961), Ralph Bakshi's Coonskin (aka Street Fight) (1975) and Mamoru Oshii's Ghost in the Shell (1995).
A short film on artist Mumble Boy.
A short CG animation by Satoshi Tomioka.
A short film on making 'anime music videos' (AMV) from back in the day when everything was sourced from good ol' VHS.
Another short from Satoshi Tomioka.
A short film looking at lesbian characters in anime.
After this came the premiere of Blood: The Last Vampire and a few more shorts which I didn't keep in the end. One of which I remember being a short that cut footage from Ninja Scroll with a group of monks having an orgy, very odd.
Friday, 7 August 2009
RIP John Hughes
1950 - 2009
Director of such films as Ferris Bueller's Day Off , Planes, Trains and Automobiles and The Breakfast Club has sadly died. He has also written and produced films such National Lampoon's Vacation, Home Alone and Beethoven.
Monday, 3 August 2009
Vidzilla
I have now started a new YouTube channel dedicated to archiving any interesting vintage and rare video that I happen to have lying about on good ol' VHS:
http://www.youtube.com/user/NobodysTapes
And here's my first upload:
Back in the days when TV was still cool, long before reality TV, late night programming was fantastic. It seemed like every Christmas one channel or the other had a strand of cult movies. Channel 4 one year had a Godzilla season during its infamous 4Later timeslot.
A total of seven film were shown uncut and undubbed, many possibly for the first time. This included the original film that pre-dates the BFIs DVD release/cinema run that many believe to be the first time the film had been shown in the UK uncut. At the time only a few of Haisai era films were available dubbed on VHS, and since then most of these films still remain unreleased in the UK.
I managed to record four of these films; Godzilla (1954), Gojira Raids Again (1955), Mothra Verses Godilla (1964) and Godzilla Returns (1984). I can't quite remember what the other three were but I do remember that Godzilla was repeated the following year along with Godzilla Vs Mechagodzilla (1974).
Uploaded here is the seasons introduction, presented by two guys (sorry haven't got their names at hand) who at the time had a video review programme.
Warning: This video contains some swearing.
http://www.youtube.com/user/NobodysTapes
And here's my first upload:
Back in the days when TV was still cool, long before reality TV, late night programming was fantastic. It seemed like every Christmas one channel or the other had a strand of cult movies. Channel 4 one year had a Godzilla season during its infamous 4Later timeslot.
A total of seven film were shown uncut and undubbed, many possibly for the first time. This included the original film that pre-dates the BFIs DVD release/cinema run that many believe to be the first time the film had been shown in the UK uncut. At the time only a few of Haisai era films were available dubbed on VHS, and since then most of these films still remain unreleased in the UK.
I managed to record four of these films; Godzilla (1954), Gojira Raids Again (1955), Mothra Verses Godilla (1964) and Godzilla Returns (1984). I can't quite remember what the other three were but I do remember that Godzilla was repeated the following year along with Godzilla Vs Mechagodzilla (1974).
Uploaded here is the seasons introduction, presented by two guys (sorry haven't got their names at hand) who at the time had a video review programme.
Warning: This video contains some swearing.
Sunday, 26 July 2009
I should get one of those signs that says "One of these days I'm gonna get organezized".
So I was watching Elmo this morning, unintentionally of course, and Elmo was teaching Mr Noodles to whistle. Eventually he did, hailing a taxi in the process (I missed the start so I don't know whether this was the whole aim). Anyway who should we find driving this taxi?
Yup non other then a Muppet version of everyone's favourite pimp killing vigilant Travis Bickle from Taxi Driver, complete with some faux-Bernard Herrmann score!
Mr Noodles proceeds by getting in the drawn out Taxi for it to drive off leaving him falling to ground, because, of course, It's not real.
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Oh and I'm going to start posting on this blog hopefully more often from how on.
Yup non other then a Muppet version of everyone's favourite pimp killing vigilant Travis Bickle from Taxi Driver, complete with some faux-Bernard Herrmann score!
Mr Noodles proceeds by getting in the drawn out Taxi for it to drive off leaving him falling to ground, because, of course, It's not real.
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Oh and I'm going to start posting on this blog hopefully more often from how on.
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