How did this get started?

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How did this get started?

Postby Cailet730 » Sun Aug 11, 2002 10:10 pm

I don't think this is answered on the site - i looked throught FAQS and Guides...

I was just wondering how anime music videos started. It's kind of a wacky idea when you step back think about it - but a wacky idea that was ingenious. I know that they were made before this website went up (in early 2001?) and I'm sure that a-m-v.org must have enabled a ton of more people to start creating and share their works better but....is there one person who first started making videos? Or maybe persons?

(*Hoping I put this in the right category*)
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Postby Castor Troy » Sun Aug 11, 2002 10:11 pm

I heard the first amv was made in 1982 by a James something. He was at Otakon last month.
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Postby Flint the Dwarf » Sun Aug 11, 2002 10:18 pm

It's not that wacky of an idea if you think about it.

To quote from Calvin and Hobbes, I mean think about milking cows.

"Who was the guy who first thought: 'Hey I'll just squeeze these things here and drink whatever comes out'?"

Sure, that's not exactly how it happened but think about it. Makes AMVs sound a lot less wacky doesn't it?
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Postby alternatefutures » Sun Aug 11, 2002 10:31 pm

Same with eggs. "Hey! You see that thing coming out of that chicken's ass? I'm gonna eat that!"
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Postby FirestormXIII » Sun Aug 11, 2002 10:44 pm

LOL @ alternatefutures


Cailet-You should watch Otaku no Video. Not only is it funny, but it kind of gives an idea to how certain hobbies dealing with anime arise: people just think them up. It's not too far-fetched to think that if they (i forget the pair's names suddenly) had kept going with their ideas that 'garage music videos' wouldn't have been far behind.
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Postby FurryCurry » Sun Aug 11, 2002 11:07 pm

The first person to ever eat a lobster or crab must've been REALLY hungry. :lol:

I think Vlad Pohnert has been making videos since the mid-80's?

I believe it started sometime around the early 80's, maybe the stoners who swore that if you started Disney's Fantasia and Pink Floyd's "The Wall" at the same time they went perfectly together gave someone the idea...
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Postby CaTaClYsM » Sun Aug 11, 2002 11:46 pm

screw lobsters, thnk about how toad licking must have been discovered.l
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Postby MistyCaldwell » Mon Aug 12, 2002 12:03 am

Cutting up animations and putting them to music has been around for a long time....of all people Disney had DTV around before I was even a thought. It wasn't anime but it was "Animated Music Videos" which comes out the same still amv :P

I remember watching the valentine ones every year. They weren't great but I thought they were a neat idea
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Postby jbone » Mon Aug 12, 2002 12:16 am

One word: Fantasia
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Postby MistyCaldwell » Mon Aug 12, 2002 12:19 am

Or Fantasia 2000

Their firebird suite at the end has an undeniable taste of anime IMHO
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Postby ErMaC » Mon Aug 12, 2002 12:24 am

I would consider some of the first animated music videos to be the original Warner Bros. and MGM Animated shorts. Specifically, Rhapsody in Rivets is a classic that I always look to to renew my belief in the medium. It's such an absolutely fantastic cartoon. I highly recommend seeking it out - there were a series of Laserdiscs out a while ago with all the old MGM/WB cartoons, and I think there's also a DVD release of it but I'm not sure.
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Postby TaranT » Mon Aug 12, 2002 2:11 am

MistyCaldwell wrote:Or Fantasia 2000
Their firebird suite at the end has an undeniable taste of anime IMHO


Guess I'm not the only person who thought that. Reminded me of Mononoke.

Of course, I had to dig out the Fan2000 DVD and watch that last video again. Beautiful stuff.
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Postby Cailet730 » Mon Aug 12, 2002 5:22 pm

One word: Fantasia


Oh yeah.... I totally forgot. I love that movie. Hehe my parents took me out of school one afternoon when I was in elementary or middle school to take me to see it in a movie theater when it was released a few years back. That was great.

Have there been AMV contests at cons for a long time?
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Postby leathelanime » Wed Aug 14, 2002 12:16 pm

people have been making musicvideos for ages....someone just decided to use anime....
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Postby RichLather » Wed Aug 14, 2002 3:42 pm

I'd like to know the content of that purported 1982 video... would tie in nicely with the first Grafitti of Otaku Generation.

I got started in 1989, and Matt Murray of Corn Pone Flicks had maybe a year before me... but before that I just don't know.
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