Dawn of the Dead 1978 (Theatrical Cut)- All TV and Radio Broadcasts
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- Dawn of the Dead tv and radio broadcast theatrical cut. Some small snippets are missing. All footage is from Dawn of Dead and not my own creation. All copyrights respected.
“This isn't the Republicans versus the Democrats, where we're in a hole economically or we're in another war. This is more crucial than that. This is down to the line, folks, this is down to the line. There can be no more divisions among the living!” That scene has always filled me with impending dread the tv conversations with the scientist guy felt very realistic.
@chandllerburse737 your last line is pure brilliance. This needs to be used in a major zombie movie/show
That's a brilliant piece of writing by Romero. I like " for all I know the brains are already dead and the idiots are still alive" dummies dummies dummies lol
Excellent writing, gets more relevant every year. Btw I’m writing this on the same day as the attempt on Trump’s life. Every time I feel society is melting down, I always revisit DotD. Not afraid to show that the government and the media are essentially useless.
@@davidlitz9600I always liked that line but now It feels like we are really down to the line.
It felt like Covid pandemic.
That opening scene was one of the best scenes depicting the breakdown of normal order that I have ever seen. The daunting theme in the background just made it all the better.
I know. FTWD really dropped the ball trying to portray the societal breakdown. No one could do it like George, no one.
@@The_OneManCrowd FTWD is shit. Absolute cash-in on "successful AMC zombie franchise". In Fear the army was in the village guarding the civilians - the next they were getting the hell out. It was such a cop out. What I (and I think a lot of zombie movie lovers) want to see in a movie is HOW tanks and planes can lose against zombies. Show us the logistics bases being overrun. Show us the tanks running out of fuel. Show us the planes landing on airstrips packed with ghouls. Show us the National Guard deserting.
@@bsdetector6908 Fuck yes my man, 100%.
@ʙᴜɴᴅᴇꜱᴡᴇʜʀᴘɪʟᴏᴛ So you would have no qualms decapitating your mother or father once they died? I couldn't. I don't think many people could. That leaves shooting them, if you live in a country that permits guns. How easy do you think that would be? You don't have very long before they come back, so you couldn't procrastinate.
@ʙᴜɴᴅᴇꜱᴡᴇʜʀᴘɪʟᴏᴛ Unfortunately not everyone else thinks like you. Even those savvy enough to watch the movie don't practice what they preach. Peter in this movie said it best. "Some people still have respect in dying." Much of why the apartment building in DOTD was because, the people living their were predominantly catholic and refused to hand over their dead until the priest gave them the last rites. Other times it's because they're still in the grieving process of losing a loved one that if they saw them walking around, all sense of reason would go away. Like that one guy's wife who tried to talk to him only for him to bite chunks out of her. You say you'd not hesitate to kill your mom and dad should they become Zombies, but I bet you'd hesitate too.
Watching this now, it all sounds so familiar. The arguing, the bickering, the refusal of people to believe the evidence right in front of them. If this happened, if it really happened, we’d really be fucked wouldn’t we?
This comment hasn't aged well
These covid sheep are laughable
People allow their emotions to blur their sense of practicality
I used to have faith that we'd overcome something like this. Seeing how people handled Covid, I doubt humanity would survive without millions of lives being lost
Not really, it depends on the Zombie. These ones are too dimwitted and slow, and most of the people in the movies are idiots, but even then. I’m sure we’d have a better handle on this cause it really depends on a multiplicity of factors
As much as I love the opening scene of the 2003 remake, this is better because it goes deeper than Mere Zombies, it challenges us and our power of denial, even when the world slowly crumbles around us. Masterpiece
6:37
If you listen closely to the radio broadcast, you can here the announcer say that all contact had been lost with Detroit, Atlanta, New York, and parts of Philidelphia. Just shows how rapidly the situation was deteriorating.
It's also wierd to hear him say that, as of the timing of the broadcast, the phenomenon is starting to take affect in Europe and Asia.
What im saying could be wrong since the clips could be out of order but after that in a following broadcast the announcer does say they have contact with scientists in Atlanta but that Atlanta is having trouble trying to find a living specimen
He mentions Boston as well. Which is where I'm from, so it always makes my skin crawl!
Well, it had been three weeks plus at this point.
@@zippymufo9765 Yet despite major cities being overrun the government is still functional as the President sent a package of initiatives to congress. Ultimately whatever that would have done seems to have either failed or never made it through as months later, and yes they're at the mall for months, long enough for Fran to be very knockers, civilization has essentially collapsed and it is now down to being on your own as looters are clearly roaming free and doing what they want and power finally fails, marking the end of modern civilization.
Didn’t they also mention that hotels and motels are taking advantage of people fleeing the cities and hiking up prices ? 🤔
The slow degradation of the talk show was really good. I liked how the eyepatched scientist is comforting himself by just muttering "logical, logical..." over and over again. It's really all over for everyone.
The way the zombies behave in the mall seemingly to almost play with the mannequins and reach out with their hands
It's almost like the behaviour of children
Brand new beings finding their feet
I've always found that darkly comedic, reminds me of delusional atheists.
One of the greatest horror films ever made, with one of the best zombie performances ever put on film, courtesy of David Emge.
The first five minutes is my favorite part of the movie. It really sets the tone for the rest of the film.
That one guy screaming about viewers: Rescue situations... rescue situations.
Francine: Stations!
Funfact. The rescue station in McKeesport, PA was also in Night of the living dead and between then and Dawn of the dead it failed and went dark.
I don't really believe that Dawn of the Dead is a direct sequel to night of the living dead. Just a spiritual successor. If you listen to the scientist in the broadcast, the zombie pandemic has only been going on for three weeks. Night of the Living Dead takes place years ago. Unless you want to say its only been three weeks for night of the living dead. Good fact though.
@@ridiculumvideos748 Course not but there is a vague but definite timeline that exists within the romeroverse and the movies share the same world and events even though they are not direct sequels/prequels to each other except for Diary and Survival. They all mostly take place Pennsylvania, maybe its radiation, Blades dies in Dawn comes back in Land. Night is where it starts but it actually started somewhere southeast a few days prior to the movie while in Dawn its been a few weeks and in Day its a whole year and in Land its years.
Ridiculum Videos I always viewed them as loose sequels. One was always meant to follow the other, right up to Land of the Dead, even though each movie is really a product of the decade it was made in.
I was born in McKeesport Hospital but raised in Florida. I heard it's a MAJOR crap-hole and am so thankful my mom moved us to Florida after I was born lol.
@@ridiculumvideos748 what are u talking about...that's only because he wrote them in different decades...you are supposed to overlook the fact that they were in the 60s then suddenly the 70s..going by ur crazy hypothesis so u think that dawn happened in 70s and because they not wearing flairs in the day that it's 10 or 20yrs later...no they supposed to be viewed as a concurrent running timeline. ignore the fashion and decade passing because romero wrote them that way. he intended night to be followed by dawn a few weeks after and day around a year after..in fact he does mention this in some interviews so ur crazy idea is demolished. Land is set after day when just a handful survivers exist and twilight is going to be about the dead...not the living.
Reminds me of the news and radio from project zomboid. It's set in 1993 so similar tech and vibes
Literally listening to this while playing Project Zomboid.
If you have watched this movie many times, you were able to handle the Corona virus, lockdowns, panic and curfews like a boss
The difference is, the so-called coronavirus response was ridiculous, pointless, and useless. There is a 99.98% survival rate, rather than a 100% fatality rate like this movie.
@@coyote5202 percent of the world population just for perspective is 140 million people (the survival rate you gave is not accurate, for example in the US 98.2 percent of patients survive covid) That's still relatively good of course but even that 2 percent difference would mean millions of dead people.
Sure lockdowns may have been heavy handed but when a new virus emerges I would rather we responded in that way just incase.
But ultimately it would appear we are over the worst of it now so it doesn't matter.
Not to mention the many possible unknown health issues that will remain for those who catch the virus.
@@StrongandStable17 Good. Now do the common flu viruses we see every year. Guess what....you, just like a lot of people, were snowballed into thinking covid was an unusual, dangerous-to-most-people thing. You were lied to.
@@coyote520 well said!
@@coyote520 The survival rate is what makes it so dangerous.
The way all these movie opened back then..........even the action movies had such a darkness and gradual rising climax of just the opening credits alone. Movies today need to go back to this format!!!
To hell with A.I.
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I mean... I dont think theres movies made by ai yet so... arent all the terrible movies made by people?
Dummies!
Dummies!
Dummies!
They should make a feature length movie about a newsroom reporting a zombie outbreak. I'd like to find out how the police and army disintegrates. Do soldiers realise the police are bugging out and leaving their families unprotected, thus deserting in droves to get back to them?
@Beyond Dead Picturesit was called pontypool, but I don't rate it much.
there's the Dawn of the Dead Remake "Special Report"
@@bsdetector6908 There was another film called Dead Air, but with a radio host. It's a different premise from Pontypool and is quite interesting.
Yes! Been saying this for years
11:58 the background radio mentions that their equipment keeps breaking and that it's becoming functionally difficult to remain on air. This could explain why emergency broadcasts cease entirely later on in the film.
i've seen this movie 6-7 times and i want to see it again every single time i catch a clip on youtube
I don't know why but at the end when it's nothing but static and that melancholy guitar playing creeps me out
WGON.
If you’re watching, we’re GONE.
Our responsibility is finished.
The opening is truly one of the great horror scenes in history. The original still the best. Top 5 movie of all time for me still. I love everything about it, even the mistakes like when Fran calls Stephen “David”. 😂
These were always my favorite scenes.
Watching this movie as a kid for the first time in 99, I was 4. I had no idea what the movie was about but I knew that there was a monster somewhere. Knowing that combined with All the drama and the arguing in this beginning scene added an element of anticipation and uncertainty. “Why are they wasting time just sitting there and not running away or hiding?? Are they safe? Are the zombies not able to get to them??”
Something about the idea of witnessing a semi stable society breaking down in real time. There’s a duality. The anchor man interviewing the Dr. Foster while the rest of the crew are doing their own separate jobs, people probably stuck in traffic, trying to get to rescue stations, only to be turned away due to over occupancy, and people being ripped apart and eaten alive alone in a house somewhere else.
It’s funny that this scene, seemingly calm compared to the rest of the movie is what creeps me out the most above all the gore death.
Horror movies today are missing so much, but this element of anticipation and impending doom is a major factor that needs to comeback.
I cringe that Fran is smoking while pregnant 🤦♂️
I love the dialogue of the eyepatch guy. Always have. I love how it gets worse and worse. From an explanation of the monsters to the very difficult discussion of nuking cities. I love Romero’s work
That's Dr. Millard Rausch from the OEP.
The actor (not the character) is heavily feautred in The Crazies and was pretty great in that to.
he comes off as very incelish and it's both frightening and subtly conical
She drink wine to. It was a different time
One of the better films. The Dead films I think same worlds at different times of the disaster. Not sequel in the since of a normal sequel film. But, different stories in the same world breaking down.
We've got to remain logical. Logical. It's that or the end...
I find it interesting that the scientist in Dawn of the dead and Logan in Day of the dead both come to the conclusion that the Z's need to be fed 🤔
Z's are act like animals and the same way they need to be fed in order to train them avoiding killing people
Very good acting, especially the eyepatch man
The scientist with the eye patch is the same dude who played the drunken mean dad on Silver Bullet 😁
I had it wrong it was the shit talking swat team guy who went crazy lol
“Dummies…. Dummies….Dummies!” 😂
Dr. Millard Rausch from the OEP.
That’s director John Landis.
@ 2:19 I was born in that hospital, but grew up in Florida. I guess that's why Day is my favorite. LOVE this of course but...
I know everyone loves the opening, and it is a great opening, but I love the last scene in the video with them arguing over the TV. There hasn't been a broadcast in days. The radio and TV stations have all shut down. It's just static now. Society is gone now, and Stephen is in complete denial.
8:55 is my fave part of the broadcast, the analysis of what the zombies are
I love how this whole beginning is showing what kind of hell has been going on for 3 weeks unlike its remake that throws the dead, but where as this version of dawn society is literally collapsing and how some stations are being knocked out and how the Dr. is saying the bodies need to be gotten rid of.
Yeah its more gradual and more a commentary on human negligence than the remake.
Seeing the news crew in the opening scenes not knowing what's really going on and how chaotic society is getting really shows that everyone within that station had no idea of the Hell that other people are experiencing against the undead unlike the Dr. that did know what was going on and what had to be done in order for what's left of Humanity to survive.
Then we see the Police and Army at the frontlines combating and trying to contain the chaotic situations within inner neighborhoods where the undead have killed a whole lot of people where many have died and turned. Not knowing what many of the Police and Army Units were going to expect once they have entered the buildings overrun with the undead, some couldn't believe what they saw, some couldn't hack it and offed themselves and others ran knowing that the situation is f***ed and that its everyone for themselves.
@Crackshotsteph and how human morality got caught where in that apartment ghetto is where the residents hold their dead in the basement and rooms. That's the worst because if this movie were real people would be harboring their dead because they were family it's no exception.
The opening has always been my favorite part of the movie. I guess my only critique of the movie is that they didn't spend more time in the TV station explaining the phenomenon the last three weeks. The exchange between Dr Foster and Berman is phenomenal and gets overlooked by the other great scenes of the movie.
Thank you for putting this together!
I wish Dr. Millard Raush wold have said "Illogical my eye."
Gorge A Remaro is in the film and also Tom Savini in this and the remake.
Savini is a genius.
Savini also special effects artist and actor
I love the opening scene but always thought it was ridiculous - experts being shouted down and ignored, people arguing instead of pulling together. Then Covid hit. Suddenly, the things I laughed at in this film were happening in real life, except in this day and age, things should never have got out of control.
Experts who have retracted their informed opinion en masse and jumped ship when they realized the wind was blowing the other way.
Also, let me say this: comparing a damn zombie apocalypse to a influenza pandemic is borderline retarded.
@@aurex8937 His point is that if an influenza Pandemic descended into a chaotic farce, then one can only imagine what would happen if cannibal corpses started walking around.
Not that the two are comparable events.
Considering the experts were wrong every step of the way
@@ColonelCarnage Not really actually
People are naturally paranoid and distrustful, especially of officials
They're allowing their emotions to overrule their instincts
Killing your reanimated friends and family is unthinkable to them
2:34 my favourite quote
We are down to the line,.folks...we are down to the line!
It's such a simple but frightening concept of the bodies of both strangers and loved ones coming back to eat the living and absolutely nothing can stop them except to ignore your own sense of humanity and put them down
Beautifully remastered. Please do the same for all these movies of the 70s!!!!!
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This scene makes me realize how they made the Death Star laser control panel in "Star Wars" haha
Just talking this scene thru incorrectly as doing morning things so put it on for the real chatter..love this dialogue.
I remember being a kid and having such a huge crush on the Dr. with the eye patch.
😂 that's awesome 😮
Why do the WGON employees despise Dr. Foster? Don't they realize they are in danger? What alternatives do they think should be pursued?
They don't believe the dead are attacking the living. Guess they had never seen a real ghoul attacking someone, from the safety of their nice office in the city.
@@bsdetector6908 That's possible, but surely they must know that things have been going downhill in three weeks, especially in the big cities. I wish the script made it more clear. Dr. Foster seemed more reasonable than Dr. Rausch, who wanted to feed the zombies and nuke every big city.
@@dcavalli9 in the novelisation Steve said to Fran she hadn't "seen it up close" as he had. Could well be cognitive dissonance on the part of the TV crews. The crew members who started to believe it bugged out. "How could they not believe it? It's in front of them!" you might ask. Well, real life today: we STILL have people who believe COVID-19 is a hoax and anti-vaxxers - large numbers of people refuse to believe something is real, even their friends, neighbours and relatives are dying.
@@The_OneManCrowd Shut the fuck up...
@@METALLICARULES11 why should he?
Have you ever noticed the scientist dude starts out in black and white, and turns to color?
They got a new TV
Stress will do that to you
After the debacle with the coronavirus this seems more real then ever, in a zombie situation I can see morons pointing fingers at each other and politicise basic health and safety even worse then they do now.
@Luis Martinez Slightly stronger? 1,000,000 dead in 9 months is a bit more than slightly stronger.
Everywhere, you've got anti-maskers and people blaming Democratic politicians for the spread of the disease, while Republican leaders twiddle their thumbs, hold up their hands, and let thousands die. People on both sides blame each other for a contagious disease spreading out of control instead of just stopping it from spreading out of control.
If the dead started rising tomorrow, you'd have people wanting to treat zombies as people, encouraging others to hug zombies, and acting like everything is fine. And by the time people actually do anything, half the population is undead and the military is bombing major cities.
For a long while, people will not say that the initial chaos is unrealistic. The opportunism, the useless skepticism and mistrust, the criminals - all there.
Then people will forget again I guess.
If there was a zombie outbreak we would all be f.....
Like u say esp after the corona..showed us all how the government can't save u
This line has run through my head for over a year now, "it's fact! You're not running a talkshow. You can stop pitching an audience the moral bu115hit they want to hear!"
Thing is, the coronavirus thing was and still is, a huge SCAM.
3:02 "It ain't the way I wanted it! I can handle things! I'm smart! Not like everybody says...like dumb...I'm smart and I want respect!”
Huh?
@@ridiculumvideos748 Guy looks like John Cazale aka 1950s Fredo Corleone.
What the news room are like now in 2020
.....now there might ba a horde of Zombies in there.....
After COVID is pretty clear self preservation remains, people would kill zombies, sick looking people, even a limp or sneeze would get you killed. Panic doesn't mean fleeing, that's just one kind of response.
Beautiful
IF something like a zombie outbreak happened in real life like the type of zombies in this movie, people would deny it its real, first reports will be ignored as freaky-fatalities and stories about burial services where the deceased come crawling out of the coffin and attacks relatives are just coincidence. This movie also discusses if you have the guts to chop someone's head off who you love even, this person starts to attack you and bite a big chunk of meat out of your arm, but then it's to late, When the world starts to admit Oké the dead are coming back to life and eating the living it would be to late to organize and create a logical plan to stop it. It's a grimm future for mankind when zombies coming after us. Just look to mankind and Corona, we barely managed to get out of that in a decent shape, but zombies ? Man we are doomed
People debating about COVID-19 in a nutshell...
Not really
Yeah being eaten alive by a zombie and then becoming a zombie is the same as cowering in your home watching Netflix, from a disease that has been vastly overblown.
Not even close. Rich people chilled at home or fled and the rest were thrown to the Wolves. On second thought.
Not trying to be a hater but Zac Snyder's version lacked DEPTH and HEART.....here we see the philosophical background of the decay of Society.....in DOTD 2004 we see COOL CGI.....
What about the cgi on fight club?
Zac version is more about action than philosophical ideas
The urgency of killing Bed Bugs Answer: 10:04
This would of been amazing in the cinema in 1978!amazing now
I never made the connection to Doctor Logan that Doctor Rausch (i.e., the eyepatch guy), first proposed feeding the zombies to train and / or satiate them as a solution to their increasing ravenous numbers. I wonder if he was an associate of Doctor Logan at the University of Florida flown up to Philadelphia for the WGON interview. Sad to think that he probably wouldn’t have survived as long as Logan did 😔
How do you know that doctor logan was a professor at the university of florida?
There are parts of these clips where I wish I had the transcript so I could put subtitles, anyone know where you could find it?
I would immediately put dvds and blu-rays (yeah I know they didn’t existed back then)
Put where?
@@_vlpin lol, remains a mystery
16:17 waiting to see if Crowder comes off of ban
I guess the Zombots have finally got the news broadcast
Ratings sucked anyhow.
A Police Officer Is Joe Pilato
You say the word captain, I'll build him a cage. It's going to be a long winter.
@@Kromsmitesyou You must listen to me Captain, you must listen!
Gorillaz took some inspiration from this I see
Did people in the 70s smoke will they where pregnate or what?
Yeah. The tabacco lobby was still very strong back then I think
My mom told me people used to smoke everywhere. In doctors office, planes. I remember smoking in pubs 😡
@@salomaonplanetsaturn674 I remember smoking at McDonald's around 10 years ago 🤣
We can still smoke most anywhere in Florida, except for chain restaurants.
It was widely noted that tobacco made you give birth to underweight babies. Tobacco lobbyists countered with bs claims that there’s no risk to that, and that “some women want smaller babies”.
This is not the democrats vs the republicans
Millard rauche is the man😮
Anyone who enjoys this compilation of scenes should check out my Dawn of the Dead music video
ruclips.net/video/Pu9GzY93NlI/видео.html
What was the logic in feeding them?
@SL-cl9gt keep them satisfied I guess. Occupied so they aren't trying to eat us.
@@ridiculumvideos748but they don’t ever experience satiation
These movies (original and remakes) did a generally poor job of using film time to present the global situation. Great movies, but this is one of their shortcomings
It's not much but you can hear during the second radio broadcast in this vid that reports of dead bodies reanimating were being reported worldwide and that a State of Martial law would take effect in certain areas. So it definitely appears things went to hell worldwide.
How,did they do a poor job of presenting the "global situation"?
15:03 atheists desperately trying to convince themselves god isn't real
Bring him to me
@@SamuelBlack84 ??
@@AbrasiousProductions Bri g him to me to prove he exists
Also why he's male
When Fran says "It's really all over, isn't it?" did she mean it's all over as in we're fucked and it's the end of days, or did she means geographically the zombies have spread everywhere around the world?
The opening is truly one of the great horror scenes in history. The original still the best. Top 5 movie of all time for me still. I love everything about it, even the mistakes like when Fran calls Stephen “David”. 😂