Pierceduk (imported) wrote: Fri Jun 12, 2015 9:48 pm I found the Hammer film mentioned. It's full title is "Hammer a mobile home massacre'

Ok Thank you, by Name complete.

See it from 5:00 minute : HAMMER - A Mobile Home Massacre

https://youtu.be/h7wqn9v7DHY

Anyone know what this clip is from (it is very weird, seemingly racist, vid showing a bunch of people in Africa taking a guy into a barn to be burdizzoed: "Black Slave Gelding"

Paolo wrote: Fri Jan 02, 2015 7:13 pm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=

dxeD33JFMbQ

Well, that was certainly interesting.

I wonder what film this came from?

Paolo wrote: Mon Jul 13, 2015 7:36 am Well, that was certainly interesting.

I wonder what film this came from?

The scene is from the Italian pseudo-documentary Addio Zio Tom (1971), later released in the United States as Goodbye Uncle Tom. The film was produced and directed by Gualtiero Jacopetti and Franco Prosperi, who were also responsible for such fake documentaries as Mondo Cane and Africa Addio. Most of the scenes were filmed in Haiti with the full cooperation and assistance of Papa Doc Duvalier who provided herds of naked extras.

I think that Roger Ebert may have understated the nature of the film when he wrote that the directors had "made the most disgusting, contemptuous insult to decency ever to masquerade as a documentary."

When I was still teaching, I used a short scene from Mondo Cane in class as an example of how real documentary footage could be perverted through editing, narration and background music. I showed a 4-minute segment with the sound off and then had the students interpret what they had seen. They were generally very accurate in their observations. I then showed the same clip again with the sound on. Diametrically opposite view. The sound overwhelmed the evidence of their own eyes to turn a happy scene of village festivity into one of horror (none of which was visible on screen and much of which was contradicted by the visuals). Jacopetti and Prosperi were masters of editing, as well as of schlock scripts. Any of their films can serve as a lesson to cinematographers on how best to manipulate footage.

Sounds like great entertainment!

Here's the Youtube link if you want to watch it. It's the over-2 hours director's cut.

Paolo wrote: Fri Jan 02, 2015 7:13 pm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=

zO3MM_dWJAo

Of course, we'll expect to see Dave crap on it in his usual high style!

I'll probably crap on it, too...

Paolo wrote: Mon Jul 13, 2015 11:57 am Sounds like great entertainment!

Here's the Youtube link if you want to watch it. It's the over-2 hours director's cut.

Paolo wrote: Fri Jan 02, 2015 7:13 pm

Paolo wrote: Mon Jul 13, 2015 11:57 am https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=

zO3MM_dWJAo

Of course, we'll expect to see Dave crap on it in his usual high s

tyle!

I'll probably crap on it, too...

Sigh, I'd have to log in to youtube for that and I don't want to create a another login for anything. Sorry.

I remember seeing Mondo Cane in a theater in CINERAMA. The only thing I remember about it was that some fellows jumped off a tower with vines on their feet. IT was a lurid expose of the strange and bizarre. I was twelve years old what the hell did I know? My Dad liked Cinerama. I do remember the man next to us in the balcony bouncing goobers off bald heads on the main floor below. Scandalized my parents. Not me. I still think that's a funny schtick.

And the Theme song -- MORE -- was the name of the song and it is a standard now. To quote Wikipedia " The movie's theme song, "More", was written by Riz Ortolani and Nino Oliviero and was given new lyrics in English by Norman Newell. In 1963, the song was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Song, where it lost to "Call Me Irresponsible" from the film Papa's Delicate Condition." I think I can still play this from memory on electric organ (the bigger version of a keyboard for two hands and two feet). IT's either that song stuck in my head or Lara's Theme from Doctor Zhivago.

You know these as the inspirations of elevator music. I know them as standards for a sophisticated bar with soft organ music.

It spawned a whole series of bad sequels. "Mondo Cane 2," Mondo Bizarro, Mondo Hollywood (which spawned the utterly awful and grotesque "Faces of Death" series.)

Stick "Mondo" in front of anything and it is recognizable as an old "meme" from before people knew what a "meme" was. . .

"Goodbye Uncle Tom" doesn't stand a chance of me watching.

I'm not a fan of bloody, lurid and weird movies like this. Sorry.

Well, I watched it. The whole 2+ hours of it.

I have no words.

The scene posted was almost comical, but the theme of the film (slavery, racism) presented as a reenacted documentary just FAILED.

Quite a bit of nudity, though.

I suppose, in a word - FAIL.

Don't bother.

SplitDik (imported) wrote: Mon Jul 13, 2015 12:20 am Anyone know what this clip is from (it is very weird, seemingly racist, vid showing a bunch of people in Africa taking a guy into a barn to be burdizzoed: "Black Slave Gelding"

Paolo wrote: Fri Jan 02, 2015 7:13 pm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=

dxeD33JFMbQ

of that movie. I think, I saw a version, where can see it the castration,

Dave (imported) wrote: Mon Jul 13, 2015 7:29 pm Sigh, I'd have to log in to youtube for that and I don't want to create a another login for anything. Sorry.

I remember seeing Mondo Cane in a theater in CINERAMA. The only thing I remember about it was that some fellows jumped off a tower with vines on their feet. IT was a lurid expose of the strange and bizarre. I was twelve years old what the hell did I know? My Dad liked Cinerama. I do remember the man next to us in the balcony bouncing goobers off bald heads on the main floor below. Scandalized my parents. Not me. I still think that's a funny schtick.

And the Theme song -- MORE -- was the name of the song and it is a standard now. To quote Wikipedia " The movie's theme song, "More", was written by Riz Ortolani and Nino Oliviero and was given new lyrics in English by Norman Newell. In 1963, the song was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Song, where it lost to "Call Me Irresponsible" from the film Papa's Delicate Condition." I think I can still play this from memory on electric organ (the bigger version of a keyboard for two hands and two feet). IT's either that song stuck in my head or Lara's Theme from Doctor Zhivago.

You know these as the inspirations of elevator music. I know them as standards for a sophisticated bar with soft organ music.

It spawned a whole series of bad sequels. "Mondo Cane 2," Mondo Bizarro, Mondo Hollywood (which spawned the utterly awful and grotesque "Faces of Death" series.)

Stick "Mondo" in front of anything and it is recognizable as an old "meme" from before people knew what a "meme" was. . .

"Goodbye Uncle Tom" doesn't stand a chance of me watching.

I'm not a fan of bloody, lurid and weird movies like this. Sorry.

Dave,

Thanks for providing the additional info. I didn't realize that movie was ever released in Cinerama. I saw many of the Cinerama movies back in the 60's and was (still am) a big fan of the process.

Unlike DAve, I'm not old enough to remember Mondo Cane. LOL

Actually, I saw the movie but have no memory of what was in it except bizarre stuff.