156: Found Footage History

Guide to the Unknown

Kristen Anderson and William Rogers

Arts, Comedy, Tv & Film

4.7 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 6 November 2020

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

It's Will's birthday, so let's celebrate the genre that made him the household name he DEFINITELY is. From the podcast Blackwood to the Blair Witch game box, amirite? It's time to discover FOUND FOOTAGE. What is it? What makes it tick? Do some films make us want to puke? Get access to monthly bonus podcasts and tons of other content by supporting us through http://www.patreon.com/gttupod! Thank you so much! Get the Blair Witch game at huntakiller.com/blairwitch Read Kristen's writing at huntakiller.com/blog For full sources and links, visit http://www.gttupod.com/home/gttu156 Visit our website for all things Guide to the Unknown at gttupod.com! Watch the video of our conversation at http://www.youtube.com/talkbomb Follow us online: http://www.instagram.com/gttupod http://www.facebook.com/gttupod http://www.twitter.com/gttupod And join our private Facebook group at http://www.facebook.com/groups/gttupod

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0:00.0	A spooky discussion and dissection of horror?
0:04.1	Spooky old dukey time.
0:06.1	Yeah.
0:07.1	Hello, welcome to Guide the Unknown, I'm Kristen. And I'm her little brother
0:14.8	William. And we may be saying goodbye to slash Tober, but we're still gonna
0:19.4	we're gonna ease back into normal things by still talking about movies today found footage movies.
0:24.4	Yeah and another sub-genre of horror just like how a month ago we covered
0:29.5	slasher history where we pieced together where did slashes come from how did they evolve over the course of time.
0:35.6	I have a love of found footage movies and I have been really eagerly looking forward to talking in the same way about found footage as a sub-genra of
0:47.2	horror.
0:48.2	Here's the thing.
0:50.3	When we were covering slashers, it turns out that there's all this groundwork laid on the internet
0:55.2	where people have pieced out what is the golden age of slashers, what are the proto slashers, what
1:01.0	is the neo-modern era?
1:03.4	Like they've really pieced it together like cultural anthropologists for the slasher world.
1:08.0	Yes.
1:09.0	That doesn't exist for found footage.
1:11.1	There is not a lengthy backstory to where found footage came from.
1:17.0	It's relatively simple.
1:19.0	So I looked into some of that found footage history and you know picture that that
1:25.9	poster of the evolution of man where it starts from like you know chimps to
1:31.1	chromagnan man to... So it's a VHS tape becoming a DVD, becoming a laptop?
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