Muppets take "Manhattan"

The combining of film dialogue with scenes of animation/puppetry has now become something of a YouTube phenomenon. What once took hours of work with analog video, is now relatively easy with the right software. The true mark of a good bootleg edit, of course, is the confluence of image and sound, and—usually more important—technique.

The Muppets are ideal for this type of re-editing. The ambiguity of the mouth movements create a believability of just about anything that can be said—moreso than cartoons.

There is just so much to love about this bootleg.

Apocalypse Pooh

A recent edition of Canadian film Journal CINEACTION included a piece about an early bootleg video called APOCALYPSE POOH. Though it could be considered a "mashup," the work pre-dates the internet-era. It was circulated on bootlegged VHS tapes, along with other early examples of copyright-violating underground cinema that became possible once video was consumer level.

It has now surfaced on YouTube. As far as I know, the artist is still unidentified.