The Non-Film Thread

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ITT you can share whatever film-like object not usually referred as a film whose quality you can vouch for. Trailers, music videos, commercials, pornos (no links, we can read just fine :) ) are all welcome here.

Me, I like Jerry Lewis' promo for his debut film as a director, The Bellboy. I like to think he was making fun of the Citizen Kane trailer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-xKfH2gLYs

Tbh I don't think this topic is such a good idea anymore :lol: ,so it's up to you to prove me wrong and make it awesome. I'll take the blame if it sucks.
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All Canadians know this commercial, but few Americans do. When I showed this to my American frenemies in the States, they were surprised that we had a commercial about how we're better than America. They didn't realize that literally almost 100% of Canadian identity is being better, ahem, or "not as bad", shall I say, as Americans. The commercial's also a joke. Do Americans actually think that beavers are a big part of our national identity? Anyway, welcome to Canada in 1999, when an ad campaign featuring a white man named Joe talking about how diverse our culture is raised zero eyebrows.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMxGVfk09lU
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Obviously, the all-time best YouTube video is Ultimate Muscle Roller Legend.

The description is really the only intro you need:

Deep in the forest lived Billy and his charming companions. They peacefully honed their bodies and listened to music there. But a wave of development came upon the forests. One who would turn all to road. Kagamine Rin had come. Billy must stop the construction before all is turned to road

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nk2wViKSh_M
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Generally, my favourite thing in the world is bizarre interviews with kids. Here are my three favourites in ascending order:

BRONZE:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mx6MzHYzEfY

SILVER:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMNry4PE93Y

GOLD:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAl0OzthVF8
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And finally, my favourite unofficial music video. This will never, ever be topped.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlpYVd8H050
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I've got one... it's a museum installation I saw at the Houston Museum of Fine Arts in 2007, called City Glow by Japanese artist Chiho Aoshima. It's a seven-minute loop played on five screens side-by-side, showing a city of smiling skyscrapers emerging behind a dense thicket of jungle vegetation. Everything moves and morphs hypnotically, with soothing natural sounds including a thunderstorm. The stills might look like typical anime, but when you see it in motion it's so richly detailed and enveloping like no cartoon I've seen.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEv38ofYwdM

from my youthfully exuberant review of this 1959 Ōshima "movie":

What an utterly and wonderfully bizarre flick!! A 6-minute advertisement for some movie studio for all of their young "star" actors who will soon be featured in movies coming to a theatre near you - and it's just an excuse for Ōshima to play around with colourful sets and fresh young faces in fantastical situations the whole time. Random funny looking actor over here! Another over here! Yoooooshi!

the version on KG might be a little bit better; can easily avail it if anyone is super interested!
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oh my absolute favourite piece of non-film film is the (so far!) first documented use of film as evidence in a court in the uk (from parlour-trick illusions to THE TRUTH THE TRUTH! from the intimate ears of hearsay to the silent gaze of witnesses...)

because, as i've raved in the 1935 poll, these shots of quotidian ne'er do wells and suspicious flat-caps were graced/inaugurated/damned by the movie gods with a completely out of context magical parade of elephants amongst the slum crime. THEY DO NOT FORGET! FILM DOES NOT FORGET

https://www2.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/ne ... -uk-courts

UK viewers can watch here: https://player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/wat ... 935-online

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BUT THAT'S NOT THE END OF THE ELEPHANT!

because last year i was amazed & delighted to discover that unusual elephant impositions (plus noam chomsky) reappeared as some kind of vestigial memory in belfast in the 70's (regardless of the fact that it is not actually belfast in the 70's, although it absolutely is belfast of today)

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https://twitter.com/shockproofbeats/sta ... 5789210625

https://twitter.com/shockproofbeats/sta ... 0052680706
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some more non-film favourites

i love street walking videos, ahem. but this one, filmed december 2019 in wuhan with the ominous cough at the end is a sublime horror movie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpDHJG_50ig

also what, no asmr yet? this is surely the thread for that. can't stand the whispering ones (just shut up! or at least talk normally!), but i love the vids where people seriously believe all that aura/chakra stuff and do everything so sincerely. my favourite one was from before they were called asmr and was a turkish man giving a woman a 'chinese' face massage, but it just looked like brutal insanity and was perfectly summed up in the comments as 'he is not trying to give her a massage, he is trying to kill her with magic'. but alas, it's disappeared from youtube now, so this is my next favourite. the composition! the colours! (what's through that door, so symbolic) the bird! the kindly focus of the woman doing the massage, the laughter....i've fallen asleep to this many times...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGDxkiqiH-A
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When i encountered (and solved the puzzle of) ASMR abbreviation it triggered my interest.
However, soon i got diverted to videos with practitioners of "lion pose" (simhasana).
https://youtu.be/XbP4XjyFm3E

I don't have a driving license and all the cars seem to me basically the same (tin boxes on wheels).
However, i cherish this car sales training mumblecore.
https://youtu.be/C7ULzp454Ps
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Holymanm wrote: Sat Mar 13, 2021 8:35 am the version on KG might be a little bit better; can easily avail it if anyone is super interested!
Do share, please! I watched a couple minutes and it looks lovely, but youtube's compression is an enemy of art.
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omg that car salesman training video
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my girl, in financial business it is hard to get too conservative.
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Searchlike wrote: Sat Mar 13, 2021 11:28 pm
Holymanm wrote: Sat Mar 13, 2021 8:35 am the version on KG might be a little bit better; can easily avail it if anyone is super interested!
Do share, please! I watched a couple minutes and it looks lovely, but youtube's compression is an enemy of art.
For sure! Posted in the place!

Maybe there'll be an HD version one day, but this one is totally fine and decent late 50s colour film stuff in SD too :D
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Hmm.. given what is the never ending deep well of material you can find on youtube. There's all sorts of crazy discoveries you can come across.
This is one of those. It's footage of a rocket launch in China from Feb 15, 1996 which was supposed to be carrying a U.S. satellite into orbit but not unlike many of those launches that go terribly wrong. China has a history of taking very big risks with it's population as their launch pads are inland and not over the ocean. Thus, this thing not only comes down but evidently killed hundreds of people in the village it landed on.

They actually have more rocket failures than people are probably aware of. Twice in 2018. Again in 2019 and another last year. It's really kind of insane.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBJ9ue6GKek&t=2s
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Then you have these kinds of visuals..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yr3ngmRuGUc
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McBain "movie" in The Simpsons.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzjfrdcN1Z8
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greennui are you a fan of the best show ever ?? :shock:
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rischka wrote: Fri Mar 19, 2021 1:54 am greennui are you a fan of the best show ever ?? :shock:
Yeep.



King of the hill dubbed in Tocharian, a central Asian language that went extinct in the 800s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNe6nke1HFk
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i wasn't even sure king of the hill would make sense to non-americans :lol: they're talking about a reunion show. do you think hank stormed the capitol
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Nah, Hank dissed Bush because of his weak handshake so he's probably gonna roast Trump's character. Dale def did though. A reunion show seem like a bad idea tho.
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Kahn would totally go for Trump, at least to start with.
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dale is the q shaman

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYIk2aXM4BE

i mentioned a bit ago that i do woodworking, making some furniture for my house and what not. this kind of video is just immensely pleasurable for me (i can spend hours watching this kind of thing), but not sure if anyone else will respond that way to it :think:
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i enjoy the dala horse video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lttbMv5P9UI

for awhile i was into those train journeys, very relaxing 8-)
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brian d wrote: Tue Mar 23, 2021 1:58 pm i mentioned a bit ago that i do woodworking, making some furniture for my house and what not. this kind of video is just immensely pleasurable for me (i can spend hours watching this kind of thing), but not sure if anyone else will respond that way to it :think:
maybe you noticed during 1988 poll, i posted about this cool film...
https://store.der.org/franois-pernet-ca ... -p827.aspx
it is a part of the whole "Wood Craft Series" by Jacqueline Veuve.

my brother-in-law makes his living as a woodcarver.
his son (my nephew) is an architect, but learned a lot from his dad and is very skillfully with wood.
while reconstructing the house where he lives now, he made most of the wooden parts and many items of the wooden furniture himself.
in the long past, he also designed & diy-built a garden shed (base floor) & summer room (1st floor) & wood shed (adjoined structure to let wood dry before it is used for woodcarving).

3 (out of the many) shaphots i made there in the past...
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in the past, i downloaded (for my nephew) somewhere a book of this kind (i thought it was from kg but i can't find it at the moment, so maybe it was some other place — i don't remember how exactly the title was). i highly admire this type of wood joinery art (tho i don't work with wood myself).
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yeah there's a lot of really neat japanese joinery. i've been trying to make things without using fasteners (screws, nails, all that), so japanese joinery is really neat to work with. i definitely can't do anything like what you see on the covers of those books, but i'd like at some point to make a structure of some sort that will stand up without any trouble but also without any nails or screws (like they do with traditional japanese houses, but something smaller). i'll take a look at that veuve film.
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