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Members of the Wompedy Club have been making videos since 1989, even if they weren't yet members of the club, which didn't yet exist.

In December 2003, for the first time ever, many of the videos made when we were kids was captured, and remastered to be as pristine as the cruddy masters from which they came would allow.

Since many of the videos had originally been edited 'tape-to-tape' resulting in very substandard final products, we had to go back to the original footage, track down the music that was used, and re-edit them. The result is better looking versions than even the originals.

The DVD includes an hour and a half of classic wompedy goodness, and includes:

Doug/Silver-Finger (a USA Film Festival, KidFilm first place award winning parody of the Bond film Goldfinger)

Slapstick Humor (a brief collection of pratfalls and people getting hurt to be funny)

Action Takes (see below)

Vacuum Cleaner Salesman (see below)

Sound Needed Takes (kinda like Action Takes, but instead of being a music montage of visuals, it's a quick cuts of things that require dialog to be funny)

Ultra Scabby Sketches (best of from our sketch comedy show)

Wompedy Documentary of Arts Magnet (see below)

Cola Cola Cola (a man goes to great lengths to provide his thirsty buddies with their favorite off-brand soda)

The Shoulder Video (death defying balancing act, and the resulting tripping, falling, and beating up-ing)

Spy Man I, II, and III (three thrilling installments of "spy man", though a more apt title might have been "bastard man" or "theft man")

Daniel's Room Sets & Other Stuff (a brief glimpse of some of the many sets we used for various productions, showing how the same space could be a river, a bunker, outer space, Night Line, and so on)

The Chase (the chase sequence from a never-finished project by the same name)

The Prohibition Video (an "educational" video for a high school history class, in which there are three violent murders, at least 6 vocabulary words, and every character mentions shoving a zucchini up some ones... well, you know)



Title: Action Takes (direct download)
Length: 2:30
File Size: 8mb
File Type: Quick Time .mov
Music: "Let There Be Drums" by Michael Viner's Incredible Bongo Band

About: Music montage of action footage. Stunts, extreme camera angles, fast paced, quick cuts, you know, all that crap. Here it is.



Title: Vacuum Cleaner Salesman (direct download)
Length: 4:06
File Size: 13.5mb
File Type: QuickTime .mov

About: Staring Carson Bryant, Mark Koller, and Jeffery Mills, with special appearances of Alan Hatchett and JL Chapman, this video was made on a slow saturday afternoon. Alan pointed out that he owned all of the forms of transportation featured in this piece.



Title: Spy Man 1 (direct download)
Length: 5:19
File Size: 16.8mb
File Type: QuickTime .mov

About: Staring Alan Hatchett and Adam Reitz, Spy Man is really just a thief who steals everything from people. It could be seen as a commentary on the risk of identity theft in a modern age, or a shrewdly concealed statement about dental hygiene. Only Spy Man knows for sure. Did I just write that? Man, it's getting late.



Title: Wompedy Documentary of Arts Magnet (direct download)
Length: 21:06
File Size: 39.5mb
File Type: QuickTime .mov
Music: Numerous Arts' Bands, including an 11th grader singing "I'm Beginning to See the Light" named Norah Jones (yes, THE Norah Jones)

About: Daniel S Dunnam and Alan Hatchett (founders and co-presidents of the Wompedy Club) took it upon themselves to document their high school. During their Jr. year they brought the gear to school every day, and interviewed about 100 of the schools 700 student body and staff, and they attended damn near every performance, show, and recital the school had — always with the cameras rolling.

Twenty-two tapes, and 44 hours of footage later, it was summer. They then devoted three months to logging, scripting, and editing a 21 minute document of the school. On August 30th, 1996, the school re-arranged the schedule of the day to allow two screenings of the Wompedy Documentary of Arts Magnet to the whole of student body. Making the event more special, August 30th was declared "Wompedy Day" by the mayor and the entire student and faculty were given newspaper hats with wompedy club logos on them — because, what's more wompedy than newspaper hats?

Though many things have changed since the video was made (namely the dean, the principal, and several other prominently featured faculty interviewees have departed) the piece is still fairly representative of the school, and what it's like there.

And for any of you Norah Jones fans (we're fans too, by the way), in addition to using a song she provided us, she is also featured briefly in an interview, so watch it and enjoy!

© The Wompedy Club 2005