"Premakes" Raiders of the Lost Ark (1951)... A frame by frame breakdown

[CLASSICMONSTERGUY95]

Premake James Bond as a cliffhanger serial!

[Pauluk33]

Indiana jones it probably the most obviously because thats the whole idea of the films to mirror classic short adventures stories and many actions scenes in the films do mirror them

[GWScores]

Wow. That's pretty remarkable to see how 'Raiders' was crafted to truly be like those old serials.

[davincent98]

I just noticed that you go from the theme from the "Superman" serials to the "Indy" theme. Nice.

[alfsal67]

Most probably several of the influences was not from Spielberg's memories but Lucas' and Kaufman's recollections of old classics. Sadly Philip Kaufman is often forgotten though he was quite vital in the creation of Indy.

Very nicely put together as well as your other "premakes", which is a great term by the way.

[njattack]

Speilberg has no originality. He can only copy others.

[greatraven1]

Very clever, well done I must share this with my students.

[UnknownThomasFan1]

This is just too awesome

[articulateantagonist]

I love these videos! Each one is like a video essay on the development of great cinema archetypes. I enjoyed the breakdown too - it really shows the thought you put into the videos.

[stoneybrotherbass]

i put a rolling boulder in every dungeon ,it's a classic

[WarshipAngelus]

OMG! This is so cool! 

[MrBigd57]

The reason ROTLA and old adventure films are so similar is because it is based on the old cliches classic adventure films made and the director wanted to make a loyal tribute.

[chillyche]

@MrBigd57 Um, yeah, of course. Why is this news?

[VortexatGOZIE]

@MrBigd57 until Indy part 4 was made then he kinda made fun of the last 3 and kinda said they were a joke also.  Which I thinks a bad idea,

[funcooldrew2]

whats premake

[theclassicnerdyguy]

hey do you think you could do daredevil as a premake?

[tastaturenpirat]

wikipedia says the 1981 indiana jones movie was the first one...

[valiare1947]

@tastaturenpirat Wikipedia can be edited by anyone...

[BlueSkyeReynolds]

Valley of the Kings is another film which may have been influential on Raiders.

Robert Taylor plays a two-fisted archeologist and religious skeptic who is searching in Egypt for the biblical Joseph's tomb along with an ambitious female counterpart and their Arab guide "Sallah." The main villain, a rival seeking to sell the tomb's artifacts on the black market, is very similar to Belloq as well.

It could be a coincidence, but producer George Lucas is said to have been a fan of such films.

[TheRealNormanBates]

I always though Indy was solely based on Heston's GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH character, but this further cements my opinion that he should have played Indy's father (also consider that Heston was originally up for the Brody part in JAWS).

[leiathegreat]

@TheRealNormanBates Him playing that would just mean someone would owe someone money but it still would have been sweet,

[WilliamLaRochelle]

It might be worthwhile to spoon-feed people the 1950's-era origins of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. So many people seem clueless that insects, UFO's and the atom bomb were exactly right elements for the period, just as nazis fit into the late thirties.

[PornotheClownDOTcom]

Raiders of the Lost Ark never hid its origins. Raiders and its follow-ups are a synthesis of the best elements of those earlier films. It's reasonable to expect that someone who liked the older films would like Raiders, though more of a leap to expect lovers of Indiana Jones to sit through all of its inspirations. It would be like sitting through every Kung Fu movie and blaxploitation flick because we like Tarantino. But "newer and better" is a pretty exclusive club.

[PatsMovingPixels]

Brilliant Work!

[happosai27]

lol "evil nazis" as if the germans sat down and said in 1933 "ok lets be evil!" lol

[PornotheClownDOTcom]

@happosai27 They wouldn't have used the word "evil," but "let's solve the Jewish question" pretty much adds up to the same thing.

[happosai27]

@PornotheClownDOTcom

lol ah come on ^^ its the jews own fault. they started the war on march 24th 1933. americans locked their japanese up too after pearl habour

[DocIndy40]

Dude, that was awesome. Lot of work went into that!

[coppertweed]

wow

[mowm88]

Do one for Transformers but be sure to stick Johnny Sokko stuff in it.

[romansing]

This is a GREAT film you have put together. I really enjoyed it. Thank you.

[mjchuckmay]

Pls do "premakes" of Filipino films.....

[Shanethefilmmaker]

you should do a premake for star wars and have some clips of old flash gordon serials or something like that for it

[finnobrit1]

What the... sometimes the text annotations appear, sometimes they don't.

I'd just asked if there could be annotations, then they started appearing so I removed my comment, and now I can't see them any more. :)

[deangelo66]

INCREDIBLE! I know it takes some serious effort and time to do that!! You have skillz!!!

[travis122imdb]

further proof of lucas-spielberg thievery, while generations hailed them (and tarantino, btw)as original....the same people who discredit hiphop for its "sampling" (stealing) other people's art.

in the end spielberg and lucas are just greedy Raiders themselves. thats why indiana jones sucks now. they ran out of old serials to plagiarize.

[LextheRobot]

You know what would be cool? If you had a text bar off to the right side of the upper box, telling exactly what film each clip was taken from.

[WatchVenusSpa]

AWESOME stuff here.

[thebenefactors]

This is absolutely astounding! Thank you for the fantastic work.

[BeanSawx3]

Please keep up the good work... you have a gift!

[jeremiahjw]

BRILLIANT!

[mattymatt]

This is AMAZING. Fantastic work.

[ilenehof]

This is one amazing set of edits to create this Indy trailer! Great job. I'd ask for more, but you probably have a life you'd rather spend time living! Phenomenal trailer with EXCELLENT editing!!

[rackfocus]

Dude, that was awesome. Two semesters worth of film history in almost 3 minutes.

[Mothdust666]

Finding all those shots must've taken either an exhaustive knowledge of old movies, or a hell of a lot of scrounging...

Highly impressive stuff.

[vibratingtofu]

The frame by frame breakdowns are even better than the reconstructed trailers. Just great. More, please.