Social media may make it easier than ever to create and share a video mashup, but that doesn’t mean it invented the idea. Jonathan McIntosh has put together a collection of remixed videos from the pre-YouTube era, when viral popularity meant copying someone a VHS tape. The thirty videos all share a few common traits: subversive content, DIY production, and reappropriated source material. The earliest dates from 1941 and uses editing tricks to make marching Nazi soldiers appear to be performing a popular British dance of the time. Other highlights include Ronald and Nancy Reagan advocating illegal drugs in an address to the nation, a nightmarish mix of Winnie the Pooh and Apocalypse Now, and Sesame Street characters protesting police brutality to an NWA soundtrack.
Mixing video mashups in the days before YouTube
Jonathan McIntosh has put together a collection of remixed videos from the pre-YouTube era, when viral popularity meant copying someone a VHS tape. The thirty videos all share a few common traits: subversive content, DIY production, and copyrighted source material.
Jonathan McIntosh has put together a collection of remixed videos from the pre-YouTube era, when viral popularity meant copying someone a VHS tape. The thirty videos all share a few common traits: subversive content, DIY production, and copyrighted source material.
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