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Rescue Me (vid)
| Vid | |
|---|---|
| Title: | Rescue Me |
| Creator: | Media Cannibals |
| Date: | 1993-1994 |
| Format: | VCR |
| Length: | |
| Music: | 'Rescue Me' by Fontella Bass |
| Genre: | |
| Fandom: | Multiple Fandoms |
| Footage: | |
| URL: | streaming and download |
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Rescue Me is a VCR era fanvid by The Media Cannibals. The vid was shown at the Escapade and Revelcon vid shows and also appeared on Kandy Fong's songtape collection In the Beginning (songvid collection)
While working on the vid "Rescue Me", Rachael Sabotini coined the term garbage can vid to describe it: a vid using clips from a wide array of media sources--TV, movies and commercials--not all of them fannish in nature.
From a 2015 interview with Rachel Sabotini for the Media Fandom Oral History Project:
When I got involved in vidding, we had moved on to flying erase heads. And what flying erase heads did is that, before the invention of flying erase heads, when you paused, it would warp the tape, and so you would get a rainbowing effect. And flying erase heads would do the erasing so that you didn't have to lay things down in order, in order to prevent this rainbowing effect from happening so much. You could go back and do insert editing... And that's the way we learned, from DeeJay was, you know, you would basically, put in a tape, watch it through, and when you saw things that you wanted, you'd pull it out, and you'd put it where you wanted in the song. So you didn't have, you know, so you would lay down the song first, with waste video, just whatever was on, and some of them were great unintentional vids that were hysterical. Or some, we did the video “Rescue Me” it had, we kept some of that waste video in it, because it worked so well with the song, and we just—it was a garbage can vid, of just everything in the kitchen sink, and some of the commercials stayed in there.