Here’s one from the archives; the “Fat Cat Stomp,” thanks to Cakewalk, the Disney Afternoon Songbook (for easy piano), and a dull afternoon back in the early 2000s.
Here it is — the first music video I edited together for an animation series. “The Stylophonia,” by Two Little Boys, using scenes from “Chip n’ Dale’s Rescue Rangers.”
What I first most amusing about this one is that I actually edited this together using an VHS to VHS editing deck. This is back when you needed two monitors and had to assemble the video pretty much one clip after the other, as there was no way to shuffle up and down the timeline as we can do today. Considering the number of cuts I had to make, it was quite a bit of a learning curve.
It’s also a bit scary to realize that I made this over a decade ago.
This is actually one of my favorites in terms of music videos; that song, “Real World” by Matchbox 20, just seems to be the perfect theme song for Dale, of the “Chip n’ Dale’s Rescue Rangers” series. And, because Dale was the official goofball of the team, there was a rich array of clips to choose from. Heck, this video practically made itself in terms of what clips to select.
Oh, and those side blue bars are because I made this on an old, old video card which did that from time to time for no apparent reason. Ah well.
Ah, the glories of the Pro Chip & Gadget movement….
After I had gotten the hang of the whole “editing music videos together with Disney Afternoon series” — which is a vastly under-appreciated skill, believe me — how could I not do a video for the beauty of a Chip and Gadget outcome? The “Chip n’ Dale’s Rescue Rangers” series still remains close to my heart, and hopefully I can one day again add some more content to the loyal following.
I thought that Matthew Sweet’s “Looking At The Sun” song was a good fit, although I had been listening to it a lot at the time, too.