That's What Friends Are For (multifandom vid)
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| Title: | That's What Friends Are For |
| Creator: | Donna Williams, Linda Brandt and Lucy Keifer |
| Date: | 1981 |
| Format: | VCR |
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| Music: | "That's What Friends Are For" by Dionne Warwick, Gladys Knight, Elton John, and Stevie Wonder |
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| Fandom: | multifandom |
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That's What Friends Are For is a very early multifandom songvid created by Donna Williams, Linda Brandt and Lucy Keifer.
It used a new technique: solve "rainbow"/break up editing problems or change POV by fading to black between scenes.
It was shown at Vividcon in 2008 as part of a vidding panel by Kandy Fong and Sandy Hereld.
From Morgan Dawn's notes:
After learning from Kendra and Diana, they showed up at the 1981 Z-Con with 5 machines and a pile of new videos. Diana reports that they set up an assembly line, and cranked out copies of theirs and other's videos, in their room. In other words, they invented the first con copying room. But, they liked lots of fandoms. After their first S&H videos, they made Miami Vice, Simon and Simon, Hardcastle and McCormack, Scarecrow and Mrs. King, The Professionals, Remington Steel, and Star Trek. Still no flying erase heads, but a machine came out that you could put in the middle of your machine to machine connection. If you twirled a knob, you could fade to black, then pause the recorder - change the scene on the playback machine - and twirl the knob back to go from black to the new scene. It looked like this... This is the first vid that I ever saw that used different fandoms in the same video.