Montage of movie "cut/slide" episodes

TYWKIWDBI does not like to promote violence in movies - at least, not the gratuitous violence that panders to the juvenile mindset. However, we do enjoy movie montages such as the "Wilhelm Scream," and when violence is compressed into a montage it becomes almost surreal.

With that cop-out introduction in place, we offer the montage above of "cut/slide" moments from films (none of which we've ever seen). The term refers to sudden transection of the human body, followed by its fragmentation.

Warning for extreme graphic violence.

Precious Images

Precious Images is an 8-minute montage of 500 movie clips. It received the Academy Award for best short film in 1987. If you enjoy movies, this video is worth clicking.

IMDb has a list of the movies from which these clips were extracted here; unfortunately the list is in chronological order rather than sequenced in the order shown in the montage. (If anyone has a link to the latter, please let me know or leave a comment).

This.........is worth.........................listening.........to

A brief segment from last week's episode of This American Life.  I can't seem to find an embed for the blog (the sharing seems to be for social media only).

The segment entitled "Time Bandit" is 24 minutes in length; if you don't have that much time, try the first seven or eight minutes.  It's worth a listen.  Trust me.

https://shortcut.thisamericanlife.org/#/clipping/713/650?_k=2jbfns

That doesn't seem to work.  Try this link.  (Image cropped for size)

Addendum:
The subject matter of the video gains increased relevance in view of a recent article describing Joe Biden's stutter -

Detroit was Biden’s chance to regain control of the narrative. And then something else happened. The candidates were talking about health care. At first, Biden sounded strong, confident, presidential: “My plan makes a limit of co-pay to be One. Thousand. Dollars. Because we—”
He stopped. He pinched his eyes closed. He lifted his hands and thrust them forward, as if trying to pull the missing sound from his mouth. “We f-f-f-f-further support—” He opened his eyes. “The uh-uh-uh-uh—” His chin dipped toward his chest. “The-uh, the ability to buy into the Obamacare plan.” Biden also stumbled when trying to say immune system. 

Fox News edited these moments into a mini montage. Stifling laughter, the host Steve Hilton narrated: “As the right words struggled to make that perilous journey from Joe Biden’s brain to Joe Biden’s mouth, half the time he just seemed to give up with this somewhat tragic and limp admission of defeat. 

Several days later, Biden’s team got back in touch with me. One of his aides gingerly asked whether I’d noticed the former vice president stutter during the debate. .. 

In Biden’s office, the first time I bring up his current stuttering, he asks me whether I’ve seen The King’s Speech. He speaks almost mystically about the award-winning 2010 film. “When King George VI, when he stood up in 1939, everyone knew he stuttered, and they knew what courage it took for him to stand up at that stadium and try to speak—and it gave them courage … I could feel that. It was that sinking feeling, like—oh my God, I remember how you felt. You feel like, I don’t know … almost like you’re being sucked into a black hole.”.. 

In addition to periodically stuttering or blocking on certain sounds, he appears to intentionally not stutter by switching to an alternative word—a technique called “circumlocution”—­which can yield mangled syntax. I’ve been following practically everything he’s said for months now, and sometimes what is quickly characterized as a memory lapse is indeed a stutter. As Eric Jackson, the speech pathologist, pointed out to me, during a town hall in August Biden briefly blocked on Obama, before quickly subbing in my boss. The headlines after the event? “Biden Forgets Obama’s Name.” Other times when Biden fudges a detail or loses his train of thought, it seems unrelated to stuttering, like he’s just making a mistake. The kind of mistake other candidates make too, though less frequently than he does.

I admit to having misunderstood some of Biden's known speaking errors as signs of possible dementia.  I stand corrected.

The King's Speech, btw, is a superb movie.

Cell phones without signals - the new movie cliche

If nothing else, one has to admire the endurance of the person who sat through over 60 of these movies to create this montage.

A supercut of actors looking at you

YouTube link.

This is a tribute to the wink of complicity from the filmmakers to the audience when they make actors look straight into the camera. It is not a tribute to scenes where the fourth wall is broken (when a character addresses the audience directly), some clips in the video belong to that category but most of them don't cause it is not what we wanted to show.

There are 150 different clips (from 148 films) in this video, but at first we had selected more than 200 films. We left out dozens of scenes on purpose, cause we didn't want a 15 minutes montage. For example, we decided not to include the "found footage" genre, cause everyone looks at the camera in this type of movies (like "Cloverfield"). And also musical numbers, where it's very common that the actors look at the camera while singing.

A list of the films with time tags is at the YouTube "about", but it's easier to just click on the "cc" (closed caption) button to reveal them during the video.

Irina Kazakova displays flexibility

Irina Kazakova is a Russian rhythmic gymnast and contortionist whose repertoire includes oversplits (below). The video above is a montage of stills and videoclips; a more sustained performance is recorded at this link.

A compilation of "We've got company" from the movies

If you like this and haven't seen The Wilhelm Scream compilation, you should look at that as well.  And maybe the "cut/slide" montage depending on your squeamishness.

Found at Swimming Freestyle. 

"Get Out of There!" montage

Via The Litter Box.

The final speech and video montage from Carl Sagan's "Cosmos"

A montage of 250 movie introductions

Created by David Balboa for Exophrine, where you can see a complete list of the 250 characters/movies assembled in this video.  Outstanding.

Via The Litter Box and Neatorama.

How to walk on water - updated

YouTube link.

Waxy, hydrophobic coatings typically make such insects’ points of contact (feet, legs, etc.) water-repellent, and their light weight can be supported by surface tension. Navigating the interface between air and water is more complicated, though, and these creatures have evolved several mechanisms to help. Some, like water striders, use appendages they insert below the surface for propulsion. At 0:49 in the montage above, you can see flow visualization of the vortices generated by a stroke. Other insects release a chemical in their wake that lowers the local surface tension and drives them away via the Marangoni effect.

That last-named one is particularly cool; I presume that's what's happening in the segments labeled "meniscus climbing." 

Addendum:  A hat tip to an anonymous reader for sorting out two of the mechanisms.

The Marangoni effect is shown near the end of the video, but I believe the sections labeled "meniscus climbing" are something different. The insects shown are adopting postures that change the shape of the surface of the water around them, causing capillary forces to draw them up to the top of the meniscus. This can be seen in the side views as dents or peaks in the water where the legs touch, or in the top view as bright and dark spots around the legs in the shadow - bright spots where the water is pulled up and focusing light, dark where it is pushed down and diffusing light. The same forces are used as in the capillary attraction two insects use to stick together at 1:03. The water treader Mesovelia (the first one shown climbing the meniscus) is covered with water-repellent hairs, so it uses special claws to grasp the surface of the water for meniscus climbing. 

Here are two relevant links - first to the hard science explanation in the esteemed Nature journal, and to a beautifully illustrated companion piece replete with photos by these same authors.  If this post has stimulated your interest, the second link is totally worth your visit.

Thanks again, anon.





Via fuck yeah fluid dynamics.

"Final Cut"

Explained at Cinerama Film:

Montage of movies from the 2000s

I always enjoy watching/posting movie montages.  This one by Paul Proulx is comprised of clips from films of the 2000s.  For a list of the component movies, see the comment thread at Vimeo.  Via The Daily Dish.

"Dogs are Awesome"

There were a few unsettling moments in this montage, when I thought dogs were being encouraged to do unsafe stunts for the camera, but overall it is quite enjoyable.

Runner-up for Mental Health Break of the Year at The Daily Dish.

The Odessa Steps in "The Battleship Potemkin" revisited

An absolutely iconic moment from a classic movie. Many silent movies of the 1920s lose their resonance for modern viewers. This segment of Eisenstein's movie retains its power:
Here's what prompted this blog post - a "real life" incident this week:

The scene on the steps was parodied in this rather tasteless advertisement:

And spoofed in a movie ""Il Secondo Tragico Fantozzi":

It was central in "The Untouchables" (1987), as a tribute rather than a parody:

After you've seen all the others, watch the opening scene of "Naked Gun 33 1/3:

After assembling those I discover that someone has made a montage of the Odessa Steps (with and without prams).

A montage of inspirational movie speeches

About forty of them, with reasonably smooth segues.

Roundworm emerges from a dying spider - Updated (twice)

YouTube link.

Succinctly described by the YouTuber as follows: "ok so i was just editing my latest montage and this huge spider came out, so i sprayed it and killed it, then this fricken alien worm came out of it!!!  haha thanks for watching! - baskwith"

It apparently is a parasitic roundworm.  I didn't know they infested creatures as small as spiders.  And I'm amazed that the spider could apparently function with so much of its body mass filled with the nematode (nematomorph - see Taupo's link in the Comments).

You learn something every day.

Addendum:  I've borrowed two videos from reader Taupo's blog.  The first shows a parasitized terrestrial insect (a cricket) seeking out water (a swimming pool) and jumping in.  After he's in the water, the parasite - a "Gordian worm" (Paragordius tricuspidatus) emerges, and the dead/dying host is left behind:

YouTube link.

The second video depicts similar events, but includes a narration (French in the original, here overdubbed in English, perhaps by a third party?) -

YouTube link.

It's absolutely fascinating that some parasites have evolved to modify the behavior of their hosts to their own advantage.  I remember seeing similar adaptations in parasites of ants and caterpillars, and I believe it is suspected with some parasites of humans, such as toxo.

Second Addendum:  Reader DubyaD found a definitive explanation for the original spider video at Insect House:

These may be the first photos of a Horsehair or Gordian worm erupting from inside a Huntsman spider. The photos were taken by our good friend Andrew this week in Cairns, Australia.   The Huntsman was spotted inside Andrew’s house with an unusually enlarged abdomen.  It got sprayed with pesticide (no – we don’t condone that kind of activity here at insecthouse.co.uk!) and within seconds of it dying, this Horsehair worm emerged.  In the circumstances, the pesticide was probably an act of mercy, but still – tut tut.

Horsehair worms are long, slender wormlike animals and can be between 5-200cm long!  They’re not worms, and nor are they nematodes, despite their scientific name of Nematomorpha (which means “nematode shaped”)... Horsehair worms are pretty tough customers – they can survive even if their host gets eaten.  Our unfortunate huntsman may have eaten an infected cricket or beetle and so become infected itself. 

Further details about both creatures at Insect House.

*Reader AF suggests that the arthropod parasites could also be Mermithidae:

Mermithidae is a family of nematode worms that are endoparasites in arthropods. As early as 1877, Mermithidae was listed as one of nine subdivisions of the Nematoidea. Mermithidae are confusable with the horsehair worms of the phylum Nematomorpha that have a similar life history and appearance.

Actors of Hollywood's "Golden Age"

That era being defined as extending from the end of silent movies until the early 1960s.  This montage was created by Peter Schneider and posted at Vimeo.

Recent posts at Neatorama

Richard Valentine Pitchford, whose professional name was Cardini, was known as perhaps the greatest sleight-of-hand artist of his time.  Here is a video of his famous "intoxicated English gentleman" routine, as shown on television in 1957.

A dental bridge created by using gold wire to attach teeth to one another.  No matter how long I look at it, it's hard for me to believe that it was created in 500 B.C., probably by an Etruscan.

The Machin head of Queen Elizabeth is the most reproduced work of art in the world.

Fish rained from the sky onto a small town in an Australian desert.  The locals were not excited; it seems this happens every so often.

A compilation of clips from 35 film noir movies.  If you love that genre, you'll love this montage.  And vice versa.

Thanks to Google, you can now ride the entire length of the trans-Siberian railway from the comfort of your desk, via a sequence of YouTube videos.  Warning: it's rather boring.

The number .999 repeating is equal to one.  Not really, really, really close to one, but equal to it.

Residents of Elk River, Minnesota have performed 1,300 random acts of kindness.

Mammoth hunting in Siberia is becoming big business as more and more carcasses are emerging from the permafrost.

Those of you who like academic science should check the blogs listed as nominees for the Research Blogging Awards.

A video shows footage of the streets of San Francisco in 1905 and 1906.  Watch out for the car/horse/pedestrian/bicycle.

A famous Pennsylvania forge that made souvenirs of the Hindenburg has just been destroyed by fire.

American collegiate grade inflation for the past 70+ years is graphed and discussed.  At a sublink you an look up grade inflation at your own college or university.

As with all my smorgasbord-type posts, the photos above are unrelated to Neatorama or to the subject matter in the links.  I've lost the source for all of these.

Addendum:  Many thanks, and a big hat-tip, to Richard, who just wrote a comment with information about the basketball photo above.  I should probably split that off as a separate post, with credit to the photographer.  Will put that on my list of things to do.  Soon.  In the meantime, here's the backstory behind the photo.

Anti-drunk-driving video compilation

For 20 years the TAC (Transport Accident Commission) in Australia has been posting video public service announcements about the dangers of drinking and driving. They apparently are notable for their brutal frankness. Here is a 20th anniversary montage of clips from those videos.

Note - graphic violence, but anyone who has worked in a hospital or law enforcement can tell you that reality is even worse than what is shown here. Don't drink and drive.

Via b3ta.