Historic vidding: "Hitler Assumes Command"
You thought that Youtube-style mash-ups using edited video footage in order to mock political figures were a thing of the twenty-first century, didn't you? Didn't you? While I'd assumed that this was the case, I've just discovered that they have been around since 1941 at least.
"Hitler Assumes Command" is a short movie newsreel that steals footage from, among other things, Leni Riefenstahl's "Triumph of the Will." It sets Hitler and his Nazi soldiers to the tune of the "Lambeth Walk," which was a popular dance tune of the time. Although the film seems to have deteriorated a bit over the years, it's very well edited, and at points feels very modern. I wonder if there are any even earlier examples of the genre?
As always, we in the modern world are not as original as we think we are.
From the National Archives... scroll to the bottom of the page...
And if that link isn't working, there's always YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCyDnj3S4bE
"Hitler Assumes Command" is a short movie newsreel that steals footage from, among other things, Leni Riefenstahl's "Triumph of the Will." It sets Hitler and his Nazi soldiers to the tune of the "Lambeth Walk," which was a popular dance tune of the time. Although the film seems to have deteriorated a bit over the years, it's very well edited, and at points feels very modern. I wonder if there are any even earlier examples of the genre?
As always, we in the modern world are not as original as we think we are.
From the National Archives... scroll to the bottom of the page...
And if that link isn't working, there's always YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCyDnj3S4bE