Turn On The Randomness

 

While tooling around with my video editing software of choice (Filmora 15), I accidentally made a strange, late 1960s sketch show stranger. It's not the full episode, but a preview of what kind of video art I'm going to put on this blog (if and when I can find the time for it).

If you want to know more about Turn-On and its place/reputation in American television history, read the Wikipedia article here. If you want to see it for yourself, here are the only three episodes in existence (actually, only one episode aired on television in 1969. The other two weren't released until decades later, when YouTube and the Paley Media Center would show people this buried treasure).

As always, these episodes come from a different time and may contain content that's considered offensive by 21st century standards, but will be shown anyway because you can't erase history and it's important to see that some things don't change.

Episode One:

Episode Two (was supposed to air in 1969, but was shelved after people complained about the first episode):

Episode Three (this one is more of a compilation of unused bits and an incomplete third episode, but, considering how random and disjointed the show is, can you really tell?):

Snow White -- Generation A.I.: Rank and 'Phile

 As mentioned in the blog mission statement, the remix of Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937 edition. As far as the A.I. is concerned, the 2025 live-action version doesn't exist) has been reformatted as a collection of shorts that will come together as a full version once the right takes are chosen and compiled for maximum hilarity and a fresh spin on a project I did that's nearly 20 years old (soon, it will be old enough to drink, which is the deadline I'm more or less aiming for for the full new version of Snow White Remix, if, God help me, the 20 year anniversary falls behind schedule).

This is one of many clips from said project. I had five ideas for how I would re-edit the scene of the Seven Dwarfs finding out that Snow White is the alleged monster in their house with everyone but Grumpy relieved and a little enamored with the fact that this pretty girl is in their bed (yeah, it sounds racier than intended, but the intentions are pure in this. Just because most of society has their minds in the gutter 24/7 doesn't mean it applies to everything ever made) and I'm still trying to pick a good one. I know the last one where Grumpy's misogynist rant is re-imagined as rhetoric from FOX News is the one to definitely use, but intercutting Sneezy's and Bashful's lines about how pretty Snow White is as she's sleeping with the scene of Ernest Brognine and the other Junior Campers rowing down a creepy swamp while "Dueling Banjos" plays (from the season five Simpsons episode, "Boy Scoutz 'n the Hood") is a joke that I tried to make on the old Snow White Remix back when my video editing software of choice was Pinnacle 8, but Pinnacle 8 was trash and I couldn't make it work, and now I can make it work thanks to time and better options.

Know that whichever scene I pick, it will be on the final cut and it will be amazing.