How did this get started?

Cailet730 · Post by **Cailet730** » Sun Aug 11, 2002 10:10 pm

I don't think this is answered on the site - i looked throught FAQS and Guides...

I was just wondering how anime music videos started. It's kind of a wacky idea when you step back think about it - but a wacky idea that was ingenious. I know that they were made before this website went up (in early 2001?) and I'm sure that a-m-v.org must have enabled a ton of more people to start creating and share their works better but....is there one person who first started making videos? Or maybe persons?

(*Hoping I put this in the right category*)

Castor Troy · Post by **Castor Troy** » Sun Aug 11, 2002 10:11 pm

I heard the first amv was made in 1982 by a James something. He was at Otakon last month.

Flint the Dwarf · Post by **Flint the Dwarf** » Sun Aug 11, 2002 10:18 pm

It's not that wacky of an idea if you think about it.

To quote from Calvin and Hobbes, I mean think about milking cows.

"Who was the guy who first thought: 'Hey I'll just squeeze these things here and drink whatever comes out'?"

Sure, that's not exactly how it happened but think about it. Makes AMVs sound a lot less wacky doesn't it?

alternatefutures · Post by **alternatefutures** » Sun Aug 11, 2002 10:31 pm

Same with eggs. "Hey! You see that thing coming out of that chicken's ass? I'm gonna eat that!"

FirestormXIII · Post by **FirestormXIII** » Sun Aug 11, 2002 10:44 pm

LOL @ alternatefutures

Cailet-You should watch Otaku no Video. Not only is it funny, but it kind of gives an idea to how certain hobbies dealing with anime arise: people just think them up. It's not too far-fetched to think that if they (i forget the pair's names suddenly) had kept going with their ideas that 'garage music videos' wouldn't have been far behind.

FurryCurry · Post by **FurryCurry** » Sun Aug 11, 2002 11:07 pm

The first person to ever eat a lobster or crab must've been REALLY hungry.

I think Vlad Pohnert has been making videos since the mid-80's?

I believe it started sometime around the early 80's, maybe the stoners who swore that if you started Disney's Fantasia and Pink Floyd's "The Wall" at the same time they went perfectly together gave someone the idea...

CaTaClYsM · Post by **CaTaClYsM** » Sun Aug 11, 2002 11:46 pm

screw lobsters, thnk about how toad licking must have been discovered.l

MistyCaldwell · Post by **MistyCaldwell** » Mon Aug 12, 2002 12:03 am

Cutting up animations and putting them to music has been around for a long time....of all people Disney had DTV around before I was even a thought. It wasn't anime but it was "Animated Music Videos" which comes out the same still amv

I remember watching the valentine ones every year. They weren't great but I thought they were a neat idea

jbone · Post by **jbone** » Mon Aug 12, 2002 12:16 am

One word: Fantasia

MistyCaldwell · Post by **MistyCaldwell** » Mon Aug 12, 2002 12:19 am

Or Fantasia 2000

Their firebird suite at the end has an undeniable taste of anime IMHO