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409 results found
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Any old 80s fast-food training video you can get the rights to
There's a lot of great cheesy 80s fast-food training videos out there, like for Wendy's and McDonald's. It's a riff goldmine.
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School's Out
what do kids do during the summer holidays? this film attempts to explain this, the answer an awful lot
a gun fight in the middle of the street
a child riding a dog into battle
a police man escorts a young boy around a gym
a demonstration of old live saving methods
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Military Police: Town Patrol (1955)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_-UbRxlxCk
The 28-minute short shows two MPs as they patrol Agusta, Georgia. And it looks like someone spliced scenes from an entertaining-enough police procedural to make a dull educational film.
The MPs instruct one soldier on bus routes and pay close attention to try and spot soldier's shoes. But in between all that they come across a soldier who was beaten up and mugged.
In fact, the line "You better call the station and get an ambulance" is spoken with much less severity and gravity than the following dressing down of a poorly dressed soldier. "Okay, now you look like…
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Your Safety First
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8pvcGWtXXE
Described as "Jetsons before the Jetsons", "Your Safety First" is half future fantasy, half history of automotive safety features. Grandpa who speaks like an old-time prospector ties it all together at the end.
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Infiltrator (1987)
PreQuantum Leap's Scott Bakula in a failed 80s scifi tv series pilot.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0163007/combined
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAPpvysi3WM17 votes -
Hammerman
Single season of 13 episodes of a monstrously failed animated series around the late 80's and early 90's freak rapper, MC Hammer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQiwzhTNmtc
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0179572/combined17 votes -
For Rifftrax Live PSA This Is Your Brain on Drugs 1987
This Is Your Brain on Drugs
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dAHoxaphbEs2016
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vma93RB_aBIhttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Is_Your_Brain_on_Drugs.
I only think it would work at a live show because it's only 36 seconds long
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" Safety Sue . "
" Safety Sue " is a bizarre short film of a woman in a bikini ( Safety Sue herself !! ) who teaches three army guys about swimming safely . It was made in 1977 . It is also called " Thank You , Safety Sue !! " And was made by the US Department Of Defense . I have seen the short , and there is plenty of fodder for the RiffTrax Crew to turn into gold !!
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Shelley and Pete
Just posted on Youtube by the US National Archives: "Shelley and Pete (...and Carol) from 1980. 23 minutes. Shelley and Pete are in High School and having sex. Then they get pregnant and their lives are ruined. (Their lives were already pretty terrible as it was the '70s, which I can tell you from personal experience sucked." Link here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teQuK8mTKHI
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Ultraman (1960's series)
The 1960's dubbed Japanese series with the Science Patrol (Hayata, Fuji, etc.) Each episode was like 30 minutes. The orange outfits with the matching ties are reason enough to riff on it.
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Mission Possible - Bike Safety
It's an educational short about bicycle safety made in the style of the old Mission Impossible TV show.
http://www.texasarchive.org/library/index.php?title=Mission_Possible_-_Bike_Safety
This short film was produced and directed by J. Larry Carroll, who also wrote episodes for shows like G.I. Joe and Diagnosis Murder.17 votes -
Transport for Tomorrow
A 30-minute short made in 1966 about the future of Bay Area Rapid Transit, including silly retro-future ideas and doughy guys talking about trains.
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The Fighting Lady, 1944
[Public Domain?] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pt58grDVsnI
The plot of the film revolves around the life of seamen on board an anonymous aircraft carrier. Because of war time restrictions, the name of the aircraft carrier was disguised as “the Fighting Lady”, although she was later identified as USS Yorktown (CV-10). (“Fighting Lady” was the known moniker of the Yorktown, just as “Lady Lex” for Lexington, “The Big E” for Enterprise, etc…) A few shots of aircraft landing were filmed aboard the Yorktown’s sister ship USS Ticonderoga.
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Meat and Romance (1940)
What do you get when you combine "Three Magic Words", "With an All-Star Cast", "Cooking Terms and What They Mean", and "Carving Magic"? You get "Meat and Romance", the tender tale of yet another newlywed wife who never learned to cook (didn't any school offer home economics back then?). Fortunately for her, her sister- and father-in-law show up (unannounced), and sis is a "famous home economist" (which is pounded into our brains more times than humanly necessary), and she takes our heroine to the butcher shop for a long lecture on different cuts of meat, then back to the kitchen…
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Million Dollar Nickel (1952)
From MGM, a great short about how a nickel pays for a stamp so an immigrant can send letters back home. Features little cameos from Ricardo Montalban and Leslie Caron speaking in their native tongues.
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Running For Empties (1988)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utbT3IL3P2Y
This is a 9 minute short from New Zealand about two schoolboys and a man in short shorts who deliver glass bottles of milk.
It is wholesome, sincere, and grounded, yet it has several over the top moments. Like an animation of the van turning into a spaceship. Or a cat knocking a bottle off a wall.
It ends on a note that soon people will be able to buy milk from grocery stores, leaving the kids (and the viewer) as witnesses to the end of an era.
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A Cranberry Christmas (2008)
- It has characters named Cyrus Grape and Mister Whiskers.
- Music is by Barry Manilow.
- It's sponsored by Ocean Spray Cranberries and this fact is screamingly obvious.
16 votes -
no margin for error
A GMP training video from 60's or 70's for pharmaceutical companies. They actually made us watch this when I started working for a company in 2011.
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James Bond Jr. (1991-1992)
Maybe a couple of episodes or the pilot to this animated kids series based on James Bond's... nephew.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVJHg9J_p_w
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0283744/reference16 votes -
Centron: Other People's Property
Yet another "Discussion Problems in Group Living" short that must be riffed!
16 votes
