Road Warrior Introductory Footage

[taipeipete]

I’ve always loved the Road Warrior introductory narration: “My life fades. The vision dims…to understand who he [the Road Warrior] was, you have to go back to another time, when the world was powered by the black fuel.”

During that voiceover, there’s some intense black and white footage of troops storming a beach, chaos in some kind of legislature (can’t quite make out the words on the wall), street rioting and other stuff. Then footage from Mad Max starts to appear.

Anybody know where the war/legislature/rioting footage comes from? Did Miller film these scenes himself for the movie? That footage looks so authentic. It’s got to be real. But where and when is it from?

Sorry if this has been discussed before. New to the forum.

[roadwarriormfp]

Ah yes all the footage is real historic footage....

WW2, Vietnam, Post Darwin cyclone footage.....

[aussie muscle]

I don't know what the images are from, but they are called 'stock footage' in the industry (which is usually generic recycled footage or even audio, ie 'wilheim scream')

[seriz]

This collection is significant as a comprehensive collection of 4,000 newsreel films and documentaries representing news stories covering all major events in Australian history, sport and entertainment from 1929 to 1975. These films for many years were the only means of audio-visually depicting major events such as wars, elections, floods, bushfires, sporting events and national news, and thus played a vital part in reflecting the nature of Australia over almost half a century. The collection contains the film that won Australia's only Academy Award (Oscar) for a documentary, Damien Parer's footage of wartime New Guinea. Much of what is depicted in the Collection is now regarded as significant as an iconic representation of Australia's twentieth-century history, societal attitudes and changing relationship to the world. The films encapsulate the unique form and narrative style that endeared the newsreel to a broad spectrum of Australians - one that is fondly remembered to this day. The Cinesound Movietone Australian Newsreel Collection 1929-1975

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I searched for the footage in their collection, but found nothing.



Just, what I know is this :



This shot, the guy murdered is a fellaga shot by french soldier during Algerian independance war. I saw it many times in documentaries about this.

I think there are also shots from french May 68, but for the moment, i cannot be sure 100%.

And the politics talking, it's a french (? or Switzerland, Belgium or Quebec) meeting. On the big wall we can read french :
"PARTI RADICAL LE PARTI QUI TIENT PAROLE"
it means : "Radical Party, the party which holds word" (i'm not really sure how to translate it)

[ralfy]

It reminds me of the middle of the intro of the first Fallout game.

[ydx7]

This may help: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&sour ... arch&gbv=1

[seriz]

Hungarian Revolution, Hungary. Russian tanks. resistance fighters.

[seriz]

As I said earlier, it's a footage from algerian war, you can find it in most of algerian war docos, but i don't know who did it... Maybe a journalist called René Vautier, but I'm definitely not sure.

[Bubba Fat]

There's also footage from Rudolf Hess in Mad Max 2. One of the greatest war criminals during WW II. Here's a link.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Hess