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Just watched some footage and holy jesus fucking christ how did Amber Heard’s lawyers even pass their bar exam?

by QuestionGuy May 19, 2022, 4:34 am

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TIL that Family Guy once used footage from a 9-year-old YouTube video in one of its episodes without permission from the owner. The owner’s original clip was then removed from Youtube for copyright infringement.

by whatilearned April 26, 2022, 7:19 pm

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TIL Moe Howard of The Three Stooges once broke three ribs filming a pratfall. Dazed, he managed to pick himself up off the ground and slap Curly in the face before passing out. The footage ended up being used in the finished short.

by whatilearned April 4, 2022, 4:21 am

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TIL in 1993, college basketball coach Bob Knight invented a fictitious player named Ivan Renko to expose disreputable basketball recruiting experts. Sure enough, the “experts” began listing Renko as a prospect and some even claimed to have footage of the nonexistent player.

by whatilearned April 3, 2022, 7:26 am

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TIL in 2016 a movie about a plane hijacking, filmed at Malta’s airport, was interrupted by a real-life hijack that interrupted filming. Subsequently, footage of passengers leaving the real hijacked plane was repurposed and edited into the film, and other passengers were cast into the movie as extras

by whatilearned April 1, 2022, 8:34 am

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TIL: John Magee, a missionary working in Nanking during the Nanking Massacre, ran out of the Nanking Safety Zone and took part in rescuing more than 200,000 Chinese soldiers and civilians. He filmed the event and refused to accept money for it, instead donating the footage for historical purposes.

by whatilearned March 16, 2022, 3:06 am

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This is why everyday I proudly dangle my shaved testicles in front of my webcam for 20 minutes in the hopes that somewhere, my assigned oversear is forced to stare at my balls for 20 minutes, or at least somewhere in an Arizona bunker, there is a hard drive with 800 hours of ball footage.

by CopyPastaArchive March 13, 2022, 10:13 pm

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You’re the president of NBC and Russia chooses to invade at super bowl kickoff; do you show the super bowl or live war footage?

by QuestionGuy February 13, 2022, 8:58 pm

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TIL that the Apollo 11 landing site was chosen purely for technical and safety reasons, which is why the famous footage takes place on a mostly featureless plain. Later Apollo missions landed in valleys, next to canyons, and at the foot of mountains.

by whatilearned January 19, 2022, 12:44 am

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What event in history do you wish there was more video footage of?

by QuestionGuy January 16, 2022, 11:09 pm

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TIL about Marion Stokes, a Philadelphia activist and archivist who recorded hundreds of thousands of hours of television news footage spanning 35 years, from 1977 until her death in 2012 at age 83. At around 71,000 hours, this is the world’s most comprehensive independent archive of modern TV news.

by whatilearned November 26, 2021, 3:30 pm

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TIL During filming of “A Bridge Too Far” (1977) the Dutch authorities would only shut down Nijmegen Bridge to film for 1 hour during a Sunday. The crew had to get the footage in that hour or else pay $125,000 a day to keep Robert Redford on set; hence it became known as the “Million Dollar Hour”.

by whatilearned November 24, 2021, 2:58 pm

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