Re: Donation of DVDs to Wikimedia Foundation Projects

On 03/01/07, Robert Scott Horning <robert_horning@...> wrote:

> Of you could "insert" additional scenes, or rearrange the order of the
> content in a variety of ways to create something very new.  BTW, this
> was a very popular technique for Russian filmakers during the early part
> of the 20th Century, where they would get hours of "stock footage" and
> with just some simple movie editing tools would "compile" new motion
> pictures.  This has also been a fairly common technique for some serial
> television programs, such as the television series [[JAG]] in some of
> its early seasons of production.

Roger Corman did the same thing - he burnt a house down with something
like twelve cameras around it and used the footage in several films in
a row. He complained in his autobiography that he hadn't known then
that people would one day get video recorders and compare them 

- d.