We are a group of Austin Comedians who want to perform at YOUR party for FREE!!!
WHY?
In my case I have a lot of standard def video of me doing comedy. BUT I don’t have footage of me in high definition. I want to perform in front of a big crowd and get a new demo out of it.
Every horror movie fans idol, George A. Romero will be getting a star on the Hollywood walk of fame.
He is also the idol of every wanna be independent filmmaker who has heard of him. He used the 16mm cameras and crew from his TV commercial production company and a shoestring budget to make a micro budget but very memorable film, ” Night of the Living Dead”!
Well shot and well written. Romero also sought out the best actors he could get, which set ” Night of the Living Dead” apart from most other low budget horror movies. The film isn’t nearly as gorey or bloody as its reputation might suggest, just some extras covered in chocolate syrup and chewing on lamb bones. I have also heard that this is a case of someone botching the copyright and thousands of entities have exploited this film but none of the original producers made a dime.
This is the holy grail of “So bad its good ” or “So bad I have GOT to see it ” movies. Jerry Lewis’s infamous and never released Holocaust comedy
“The Day The Clown Cried”.
The tale of a Clown in a nazi concentration camp who leads children into the gas chamber.
Here are 30 minutes of the film. I suspect culled together from documentaries ABOUT Jerry lewis, not from the film itself. Supposedly the film itself is locked up in Jerrys private vault.
It was produced but never released, either because theres legal confusion iver who actually owns the rights to it or Jerry thinks its too embarrassingly bad to show.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_the_Clown_Cried Lewis offered the opinion that it was all bad, an artistic failure because “I lost the magic”. Quoted in Entertainment Weekly: “You will never see it. No one will ever see it, because I am embarrassed at the poor work.”
I dont quite understand whats going on in that “spotlight room” but the footage doesn’t look THAT bad, and I would be interested in seeing the whole thing.
As many have pointed out, a film with loosely similar ideas, a comedy about a clown character in a concentration camp ” Life Is Beautiful”
The Day The Clown Cried Harry Shearer Howard Stern Interview
I just bought a Feiyu tech G4 gimbal that claims to make Go Pro footage look like steadicam footage! This is me testing it the day I got one from Amazon.com!
Not bad for a first try and I can only get better!
The lovely Paulina got married to the handsome Danny Baker on April 16, 2016 at “The Vista on Seward Hill” in West Austin.
Shot with a Canon DSLR, a Canon Camcorder, 3 go pros and a Feiyu G4 3-Axis Handheld Gimbal . Edited in Adobe Premiere with some work done in Photoshop and After Effects.
To many young ” filmmakers ” starting out today, they cant remember a time before digital. I bet many can’t remember a time before video TAPE ( of any kind).
To folks like me, I can clearly remember at time when making a film was a nightmarish, overwhelming undertaking. True “film” cost a LOT, and so much as ONE retake could cost you a LOT. You had to write and storyboard so meticulously, and shooting was SO stressful because no student/independent filmmaker could ” fix it in post”.
So if you got a film finished AT ALL it was a major accomplishment. And if you got an independent film finished and it was actually worth watching… well THAT was a rare feat!
And thats why almost EVERY independent film before the late 1990s was Black and White, color was way too expensive and WAYY to easy to get it wrong.
This film, RUBEN, blew me away when I saw it onscreen at the old DOBIE theater at SXSW in the 90s…..
This inspired the still not finished “Fred Movie”. I saw “RUBEN” and said ” I could make something like that”
