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Notable Examples of YTP-esque Editing in Vintage Media
Introduction[edit]
It is common knowledge among the YTP community that the first internet video to be classified as “YouTube Poop” was SuperYoshi’s “I’D SAY HE’S HOT ON OUR TAIL” or “Super Mario Bros. 3 REMIXED!!!”, originally uploaded to SheezyArt on December 22, 2004. However, YTP has found its roots going as deep as 1942 with the World War II propaganda film, “Gen. Adolf Hitler Takes Over”, featuring basic film reversing, stuttering, and jump cuts in time with music. Although not much else is known about what came between this short and the last 30 years of the 20th Century, the 1980s and ‘90s saw many examples of commercials and television shows using similar editing techniques, styles, or patterns to those of YTP, but not labeled as such by their creator(s).
Commercials[edit]
American Television Commercials and promotional videotapes released by Nintendo during the 1990’s have definite resemblance to the way YTPs are edited today, with very fast-paced jump cuts, green screen compositing, heavy visual effects, and text. The following are several examples that have been found.
1992 Super Mario Kart Commercial [1]
1994 "Play it Loud" Commercials [2] [3]
1994 Donkey Kong Country Promotional Video [4]
Nintendo were not the only ones to do this, however. Colossal Pictures, founded in 1976 by Drew Takahashi and Gary Gutierrez made several adverts for many companies during the ‘90s with very surreal and fast-paced techniques. One notable example is a Coca-Cola commercial found 3 minutes and 55 seconds into CP’s 1993 demo reel, featuring numerous images of the beverage company’s logo appearing in different places around the world. The images in question fly by very quickly, keeping in line with the similarly edited audio. [5]
Television[edit]
1994 was definitely a year for heavy video editing. The Simpsons became one of the YTP forefathers with the iconic season 6 episode, “Homer Badman”. When Homer’s interview with Rock Bottom appears on television, it is very heavily edited from what originally happened on set. A prominent showcase of early sentence mixing can be scene here, and although the cuts were animated manually, the raw audio from the original interview was used and edited, even including a brief stutter loop accompanied with pitch shifting. [6]
