LTV21

Seasons 1 and 2 of Liquid Television featured the fantastic and always entertaining, Stick Figure Theater.  Such a simple idea, but executed with great humor and quirikiness.  The formula was simple, take classic film clips, recreate the video in “stick figure” format and have a little fun with the topic matter.

The director, Robin Steele, seems to have taken this idea further with a series called “Stickin’ Around” which added color, but had the same silly stick figure animation style. (Click for “Stickin’ Around” intro)

SFT compilation #1 (ZappVid1)
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• Mr. Jimi Hendrix performing “The Star-Spangled Banner” (Woodstock, 1969) (alternate video: YouTube from zappazombie) (season 2)
• Mister Alfred Hitchcock (trailer for “Psycho”) (season 1)
• Jack Nicholson and Boris Karloff in “The Terror” (season 2)
• John Wayne in “Angel and the Bad Man” (season 1)
• Edmund O’Brien in “D.O.A.” (season 1)
• Madonna in “Express Yourself” (alternate video: YouTube from viralguru) (season 1)

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj7WnDVGU24[/youtube]

SFT compilation #2 (ZappVid1)

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• “Night of the Living Dead” (season 2)
• The Crash of the Hindenburg May 6, 1937 (season 2)
• Sergei Eisenstein’s silent classic “The Battleship Potemkin (USSR, 1925)” (season 2)
• José Ferrer in “Cyrano de Bergerac” (season 1)
• Miss Bette Davis in “Of Human Bondage” (season 2)
• William Shakespeare’s “Henry V” (season 2)
• Jimmy Stewart in “It’s a Wonderful Life” (season 1)

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5QRGqy04w8[/youtube]

And from Season 3, we have an extended run as Stick Figure Theater delves into the 1961 Gary Cooper flick, “The Naked Edge”. (wikipedia, imdb)

The Naked Edge compilation #1 (ZappVid1)

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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7FTxSIw1qk[/youtube]

The Naked Edge compilation #2 (ZappVid1)

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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXgTns_-oy4[/youtube]

The Naked Edge compilation #3 (ZappVid1)

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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GC0W7rw2vUY[/youtube]

Thanks to ZappVid, viralguru, zappazombie and krw703 for posting the LTV videos and all the others for posting the originals.