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unusual facts about stock footage



Avianca Flight 52

In the 2004 film The Day After Tomorrow, stock footage of the plane wreckage was utilized to represent a plane that supposedly crashed due to turbulence.

Goona-goona epic

'Goona-goona epic' refers to any of several films set in the Far East or Southeast Asia which combined travelogue and stock footage of exotic customs and locales with universally understandable stories of romance and betrayal.

History Detectives

Between segments there will be interstitial material involving stock footage and one of the investigators giving narration that relates to the general topic which had been covered in the preceding segment.

Teenage Zombies

The movie was criticized for its use of stock footage from feature films by Jerry Warren, who later used it in his most famous film, 1981's Frankenstein Island.


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Daydream World Tour

The lights dimmed a dark blue and purple color, and on screen appeared stock footage of Boyz II Men from the Fantasy: Mariah Carey at Madison Square Garden concert in October 1995.

Dizzy Detectives

Dizzy Detectives was remade — line-by-line — with Joe Besser and Jim Hawthorne as Fraidy Cat in 1951; Fraidy Cat was itself remade three years later as Hook A Crook, using ample stock footage.

Fire Dragon

It mostly consists of stock footage from the film Fantasy Mission Force, including scenes of Jackie Chan and Brigitte Lin.

Geneva Locke

Recently, stock footage of her portrayal of "Young Max" in Dark Angel was used in the 2007 action film Hitman starring Timothy Olyphant.

Izo

However, Miike's portrayal of the character (or rather his spirit) transcends reality (and time and space) and is more of a surrealist exposé of Izo's exceedingly bloody yet philosophical encounters in an afterlife heavy on symbolism, occasionally interrupted by stock footage of World War II accompanied by acid-folk singer Kazuki Tomokawa on guitar.

Overland with Kit Carson

Scenes from Overland with Kit Carson were used as stock footage for Blazing the Overland Trail.

Shadow Conspiracy

When the US Secret Service would not allow the filmmakers to land their UH-1 Huey on the South Lawn, they used stock footage of the President's helicopter, Marine One, landing instead.

SS Antilles

The Flandre or the Antilles appeared as stock footage in the 1964 Perry Mason episode Nautical Knot, set near Acapulco, Mexico.

The Athlete

A mixture of fiction and stock footage, The Athlete is a portrait of the legendary marathoner from Ethiopia, Abebe Bikila.

The Mighty Gorga

The film contains stock footage of wild animals, shown in the jungle scenes, while footage of a cave monster is taken from the film Goliath and the Dragon.

Trancers: City of Lost Angels

It consists of around 30 minutes of stock footage lifted from the unreleased anthology movie, Pulse Pounders from 1988, which had two other segments, making it a lost sequel digitally restored.

Two Down and One to Go

Presented by the Secretary of War (Henry Stimson) and narrated by Army Chief of Staff George Marshall, the film is notable for its heavy use of animated graphics, spliced with stock footage.

Two Lost Worlds

They were taken from stock footage recycled from the film One Million B.C. (1940).

Tycus

The film relied heavily on stock footage, recycling shots from Dante's Peak, Asteroid, and Air America amongst several films.

Z movie

The Creeping Terror (1964), directed by Vic Savage (under the pseudonym A. J. Nelson), uses some memorable bargain-basement effects: Stock footage of a rocket launch is played in reverse to depict the landing of an alien spacecraft.