FILM SAMPLING
Feb. 2003 - Dreamworks announces "film sampling". Past examples of this seemt o fall into two categories dependent on whether the footage is from the same film or not. Sampling other films is still relatively rare but the most interesting.
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (Carl Riener, 1982)
30s/40s Hollywood greats
What's Up Tiger Lily? (Woody Allen, 1966)
Re-dubbed Japanese film.
Back to the Future Part II(Robert Zemeckis, 1989)
Sampled bits from Back to the Future
Reviews and commentaries below:
Even then, the technological hurdles for now are mighty, and most people who might like to play with sampling are probably deterred over the difficulty of the process. But, if this were to become something film copyright owners were willing to license or share through fair use, an industry might spring up allowing the man on the street to make something like Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid in an easy, simple way. Or maybe just make an email greeting of themselves as the Terminator.
Commentary from American City Biz Journals:
Hollywood could use this technological power for a good cause, like digitally inserting the image of "Thriller"-era Michael Jackson into every known scrap of video footage he's made since 1985. But instead, the industry behind such contributions to society as "Pootie Tang," "Good Burger," "Jackass: The Movie" and 37 "Star Trek" flicks is going back in time to leave its slimy, unholy, money-stained fingerprints on theoretically higher art.
Film Sampling bitches from Button Monkey:
Who's to say that the next big movie won't be starring Mike Myers and Marilyn Monroe? If that were the case, would it not be unethical for someone to profit from the likeness and performance of a deceased person or persons? In this case Hollywood gets to reuse/recycle great star names without having to pay the star. They would no longer have a say over how they were even portrayed in the film.
Is nothing sacred? from Empire Online
Called "film sampling," the studio has defended this blatant plundering of the archive...
Only the presence of Spielberg and Myers in this sorry project has dampened down the raging ire ...
Film and video are both sampling technologies
... film is the first technology to deal with time slices, and
therefore is also a kind of sampling technology. Each frame
is a picture-sample.