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The Found Footage Phenomenon

Look at films like"Ghostwatch." They've got this rich cultureof the BBC behind them and...

Look at films like
"Ghostwatch." They've got this rich culture
of the BBC behind them and the real life news presenter and this real, actual
crossover into reality

Full Transcript

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-Look at films like "Ghostwatch."
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They've got this rich culture of the BBC behind them
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and the real life news presenter
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and this real, actual crossover into reality.
Duration
12 seconds
Views
30
Timestamp in Movie
00:29:59
Uploaded
May 08, 2025
Genres
documentary
Production
Caprisar Productions,Fractured Visions

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Movie Summary

The Found Footage Phenomenon is an independent documentary charting the origins of the found footage sub-genre, tracking it through to the technique's current form, and asking what the future is.
-But this was a kind of way of talking about TV - The Found Footage Phenomenon 00:05
-But this was a kind of way of talking about TV
So we were kind of exploring areas of, - The Found Footage Phenomenon 00:07
So we were kind of exploring areas of,
Is that expert telling us the truth? All those things. - The Found Footage Phenomenon 00:04
Is that expert telling us the truth? All those things.
-I've got eight or nine phone calls here which are like - The Found Footage Phenomenon 00:05
-I've got eight or nine phone calls here which are like
They, too, have seen a mysterious dark figure - The Found Footage Phenomenon 00:07
They, too, have seen a mysterious dark figure
-It was a time when reality TV was at the foothills, - The Found Footage Phenomenon 00:11
-It was a time when reality TV was at the foothills,
Dramas were using documentary techniques like handheld camera, - The Found Footage Phenomenon 00:09
Dramas were using documentary techniques like handheld camer...
So there was a whole blurring of the boundaries - The Found Footage Phenomenon 00:04
So there was a whole blurring of the boundaries
And I think that was the climate - The Found Footage Phenomenon 00:05
And I think that was the climate
And we wanted to kind of explore the idea - The Found Footage Phenomenon 00:07
And we wanted to kind of explore the idea
-"Ghostwatch" was very, very ahead of its time, - The Found Footage Phenomenon 00:06
-"Ghostwatch" was very, very ahead of its time,
This was the time of the first Gulf War, that they used, - The Found Footage Phenomenon 00:09
This was the time of the first Gulf War, that they used,
So it was a very, very important program - The Found Footage Phenomenon 00:11
So it was a very, very important program
-This footage was shot by parapsychologists - The Found Footage Phenomenon 00:05
-This footage was shot by parapsychologists
Now you're about to see one of the incidents - The Found Footage Phenomenon 00:07
Now you're about to see one of the incidents
-For very political reasons that Steven Volk has expressed - The Found Footage Phenomenon 00:17
-For very political reasons that Steven Volk has expressed
I'm telling you a story about ghosts in the middle - The Found Footage Phenomenon 00:06
I'm telling you a story about ghosts in the middle
Do you really believe that - The Found Footage Phenomenon 00:07
Do you really believe that
-The fact it was anti-BBC, that the nation trusted, - The Found Footage Phenomenon 00:09
-The fact it was anti-BBC, that the nation trusted,
And the fact that could be subverted, - The Found Footage Phenomenon 00:11
And the fact that could be subverted,