Challenge: Create a trailer for an AH film!

[Orville_third]

(This is a trailer for a TL I might do someday. As most of my trailers have music in them, I think this song would be good, especially since it was a favorite of the subject. For those curious it was originally written by Leonard Blakeslee, with some alterations by Leonard Cohen and others. (I think Pete Seeger might be a good choice to perform the music as he likely knew the subject...))

*Archival footage of FDR Administration plays. One person in each bit of footage is Henry A. Wallace*
I was at FDR's side on the night before he died
He said, "One world must come out of World War Two.
Yankee, Russian, Black or Tan, oh, a man is just a man.
*Shot of Wallace, Garner and Truman together, on the way to FDR's funeral*
"We're all brothers, and we're only passing through."

*Thud. Blackout.*
*Headline: "WALLACE RESIGNS"*
*Studio Card. Music Resumes*
*Wallace shown walking out of the Commerce Building, with a briefcase in hand*
I saw Adam leave the garden, with an apple in his hand,
I said, "Now you're out, what are you gonna do?"
*Wallace working on his farm at Farvue*
"Plant my crops and pray for rain,
*Shot of "Wallace's Farmer" magazine, article entitled "A Word Personal". Other magazines are below*
Maybe raise a little Cain.
I'm an orphan now and only passing through."

*Now the changes...Shot of a farm labeled: "Henry A. Wallace Experimental Farm, EPCOT."*
Passing through, Passing through,
*Shot of buildings in cities with rooftop gardens*
Sometimes happy, sometimes blue,
*Shot of Chicago Tribune: "DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN". Below, New York Times: "DEWEY ELECTED"*
Glad that I ran into you,
*Shot of Wallace, with a cane, shaking hands with JFK, who is presenting him with a medal*
Tell the people that you saw me passing through.
*Shot of Senator Glen Taylor being arrested by Birmingham police*
I saw Jesus on the cross, on that hill called Calvary,
*Shot of a white mob burning Wallace pictures*
"Do you hate mankind for what they done to you?"
*Shot of Wallace speaking to a group of African-American farmers, possibly at Tuskegee Institute*
He said, "Talk of love, not hate,
*Shot of Wallace examining a Southern field*
Things to do, it's getting late
I've so little time and only passing through."

*Shot of a farmhouse, mural of an African-American farm family on the side*
Passing through, Passing through,
*Shot of Army troops guarding a college entrance*
Sometimes happy, sometimes blue,
*Shot of Robert New speaking to a mixed audience, SC and US flags behind him*
Glad that I ran into you,
*Rural basketball team, 1970's. Both blacks and whites are on the team.*
Tell the people that you saw me passing through.

*Wallace is in Mexico, talking to Norman Borlaug*
I shivered with George Washington, one night at Valley Forge,
*Trekking through the jungle of Costa Rica*"Why do the soldiers freeze here like they do?"
*Wallace reading a headline, sitting in Africa: "US to revoke Wallace's passport?"*
He said, "Men will suffer, fight, even die for what is right.
*Wallace, looking out over the hills of Israel*
Even though they know they're only passing through."

*Fields overseas, abounding with fruit and crops*
Passing through, Passing through,
Sometimes happy, sometimes blue,
Glad that I ran into you,
Tell the people that you saw me passing through.

*Shot of Wallace, making a speech*
Wallace: No man, having put his hand to the plow, and looking back, is fit for the Kingdom of God.

Passing through, Passing through,
Sometimes happy, sometimes blue,
Glad that I ran into you,
Tell the people that you saw me passing through.

PLOW
by Orville_Third
Coming soon

[History_Pintobean]

Imagine a world where the British won the American Revolutionary War...

[scene fades from black into images of Red Coats marching in Philadelphia]

[scene expands to reveal smoke rising from buildings]

where the founding fathers were hung for high treason against the crown

[Cut to images of swaying gallows]

[Scene quickly fades back into black]

History_Pintobean Studios presents:

Red Coat!

Coming to a theater near you

[British officer: "Ready...Aim...Fire!"]

[modelcitizen]

Originally Posted by Orville_third

(This is a trailer for a TL I might do someday. As most of my trailers have music in them, I think this song would be good, especially since it was a favorite of the subject. For those curious it was originally written by Leonard Blakeslee, with some alterations by Leonard Cohen and others. (I think Pete Seeger might be a good choice to perform the music as he likely knew the subject...))

*Archival footage of FDR Administration plays. One person in each bit of footage is Henry A. Wallace*
I was at FDR's side on the night before he died
He said, "One world must come out of World War Two.
Yankee, Russian, Black or Tan, oh, a man is just a man.
*Shot of Wallace, Garner and Truman together, on the way to FDR's funeral*
"We're all brothers, and we're only passing through."

*Thud. Blackout.*
*Headline: "WALLACE RESIGNS"*
*Studio Card. Music Resumes*
*Wallace shown walking out of the Commerce Building, with a briefcase in hand*
I saw Adam leave the garden, with an apple in his hand,
I said, "Now you're out, what are you gonna do?"
*Wallace working on his farm at Farvue*
"Plant my crops and pray for rain,
*Shot of "Wallace's Farmer" magazine, article entitled "A Word Personal". Other magazines are below*
Maybe raise a little Cain.
I'm an orphan now and only passing through."

*Now the changes...Shot of a farm labeled: "Henry A. Wallace Experimental Farm, EPCOT."*
Passing through, Passing through,
*Shot of buildings in cities with rooftop gardens*
Sometimes happy, sometimes blue,
*Shot of Chicago Tribune: "DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN". Below, New York Times: "DEWEY ELECTED"*
Glad that I ran into you,
*Shot of Wallace, with a cane, shaking hands with JFK, who is presenting him with a medal*
Tell the people that you saw me passing through.
*Shot of Senator Glen Taylor being arrested by Birmingham police*
I saw Jesus on the cross, on that hill called Calvary,
*Shot of a white mob burning Wallace pictures*
"Do you hate mankind for what they done to you?"
*Shot of Wallace speaking to a group of African-American farmers, possibly at Tuskegee Institute*
He said, "Talk of love, not hate,
*Shot of Wallace examining a Southern field*
Things to do, it's getting late
I've so little time and only passing through."

*Shot of a farmhouse, mural of an African-American farm family on the side*
Passing through, Passing through,
*Shot of Army troops guarding a college entrance*
Sometimes happy, sometimes blue,
*Shot of Robert New speaking to a mixed audience, SC and US flags behind him*
Glad that I ran into you,
*Rural basketball team, 1970's. Both blacks and whites are on the team.*
Tell the people that you saw me passing through.

*Wallace is in Mexico, talking to Norman Borlaug*
I shivered with George Washington, one night at Valley Forge,
*Trekking through the jungle of Costa Rica*"Why do the soldiers freeze here like they do?"
*Wallace reading a headline, sitting in Africa: "US to revoke Wallace's passport?"*
He said, "Men will suffer, fight, even die for what is right.
*Wallace, looking out over the hills of Israel*
Even though they know they're only passing through."

*Fields overseas, abounding with fruit and crops*
Passing through, Passing through,
Sometimes happy, sometimes blue,
Glad that I ran into you,
Tell the people that you saw me passing through.

*Shot of Wallace, making a speech*
Wallace: No man, having put his hand to the plow, and looking back, is fit for the Kingdom of God.

Passing through, Passing through,
Sometimes happy, sometimes blue,
Glad that I ran into you,
Tell the people that you saw me passing through.

PLOW
by Orville_Third
Coming soon

That seems rather thoughtful!

On a very unrelated note, it popped into my mind, what if Henry Wallace got combined with William Wallace as portrayed in Braveheart?

[Crazy Calvinist]

Duel of the Fates plays in the background. Camera pans over the abandoned wreckage of several Clone Wars battlegrounds.

As the fast part of the song begins, cut to Anakin's speeder flying towards the Chancellor's office.

Cut to Mace Windu and Sidious dueling in the Chancellor's office.

Cut to Black

This Summer

Cut to Clone Troopers fighting Droids on Coruscant.

Forget

Shot of Droid Bombers strafing Thead

Everthing

Cut to Obi-Wan and Anakin standing over a computer terminal

Anakin: Order 66?

Obi-Wan: What was he planning?

You've

Pan over rioting in the Galactic Senate Hall

Known

Music cuts out. Cut to Yoda and Anakin.

Yoda: Always in motion, the future is.

Music picks up, faster than before. Rapid cuts of Han Solo piloting an unfamiliar bomber, Galen Marek jumping out of an exploding dropship, Yoda dueling General Grivious, ARC troopers fighting in the Death Star corridor, and civilians running in terror on Correllia.


Point of Divergence

Cut to Luke Skywalker

Luke: I'll never join you! The Jedi killed my father!

Anakin: No, Luke-

Cut to Black

July 20XX

----

No, it isn't that accurate to the story .

[JMT]

(First Trailer shown during Super Bowl 47: Carolina Panthers VS. Pittsburgh Steelers)

MPAA Image, logo of 20th Century Fox, then Whiskey Tango Films logo.

[A man is sitting at a table, he is in his 60's, with white hair and dressed in a grey uniform.]

LIEUTENANT: General Lee, sir

LEE: Yes, Lieutenant?

LIEUTENANT: There is someone to see you, sir. He says it's concerning the future of the Confederacy.

[LEE walks out to find a man standing in the middle of his camp, holding a rifle and surrounded by bronze shells]

RHOODIE: Hello, General Lee. I am known as Andreas Rhoodie, and this is an AK-47.

Fade to black, the words GUNS OF THE SOUTH fade in, silver and in period script, before cutting to the release date, JULY 4th. Dixie can be heard playing in the background.

[Milarqui]

I'd try to make one about my TL The Legacy of the Glorious, but there is not much epic beyond what the Tercios Especiales do (well, maybe there will be in the future), so I'm doing one about Dr Strangelove's story.

Note: Writing in italics is lettering, writing in bold is voice over, bold italics is lettering + voice over.
__________________________________________________ ___

(White writing over black background) July 1936. The Spanish Army rises against the Republican government.

After three years of fighting, the rebels, led by Francisco Franco, entered Madrid and won the war.

(Photography of Franco, while the "En el día de hoy" radio speech is heard on the background. Franco's photo fades into black.)

What if that did not happen? What if Franco remained loyal to the government?

(A new photograph of Franco, but this time next to President Azaña and saluting the Republican flag)

Universal Pictures Iberia
in collaboration with
RTVE
&
Gobierno de España

(Jump to fighting in the French countryside between Spanish, British and French tanks on one side and German tanks on the other)

What if Spain became an Ally in World War II?(Several planes bombard the Italian port of Tarento)

What if the greatest threat to the modern world also arrived to Spain?

(Shot of the Nazi flag flying over a slightly ruined Congreso de los Diputados while the Wehrmacht marches in front of it)
(Desperate fighting in the Andorran snows)
(Gaitas de Durruti shooting their missiles)
(Planes fighting over the Pyrenees)
(Brutal fighting within the ruins of Zaragoza. A tank shell is shot and explodes next to the camera. Everything goes black)

No Spanish Civil War
Part I: Fall Schwartz
April 14th 2031 in every cinema

[Clorox23]

Originally Posted by Sicarius

From the Jimmy Hendrix meets Ron Paul thread...
EXT. A HIGHWAY. DAY.

A massively pregnant woman stands on the roadside, in front of a smoking, broken down car. She waves offscreen.

WOMAN: Ek het hulp nodig! Asseblief!

Slowly, a hulking tour bus pulls into frame, stopping in front of the woman. The door hisses open.

JIMI: Hi. I'm Jimi Hendrix.

CUT. INT. A DOCTOR'S OFFICE. DAY.

JIMI and a roadie is wheeling the huffing woman into the office on top of a rolling speaker.

JIMI: Hey! We need a doctor out here!

A doctor sticks his head out from a room.

DOCTOR: I'm a doctor. Doctor Ron Paul.

JIMI: Are you experienced?

CUT. INT. DAY. RON PAUL'S OFFICE.

RON: Your friend is fine, but she was very difficult to calm down. Mr. Hendrix, how well do you know this woman?

JIMI: I just met her, man.

RON: And would you happen to know what these are?

RON opens his hand, revealing several large gold coins.

RON: She handed them to me before the delivery. She was quite insistant.

JIMI: Are those gold?!

RON: Not just any gold. Krugerrands. Purestrain gold Krugerrands.

CUT. INT. DAY. THE ENTRY HALLWAY TO THE CLINIC.

A team of masked men burst in, yelling and firing AK-47s. They kick in doors until they find the room they're looking for. Seconds later, several of the men come out, wheeling the frantic woman.

CUT. INT. DAY. RON PAUL'S OFFICE.

One of the masked men bursts in the door, instantly training his gun on RON, who raises his hands in fear. Suddenly, JIMI steps out from behind the door, leading with a guitar which smashes into the man's face.

CUT. INT. DAY. RON PAUL'S OFFICE.

RON and JIMI are hunched over the groaning man.

MAN: You ... soon your kind will be in their place.

CUT. EXT. DAY. TEXAS DESERT.

RON and JIMI cower behind a cactus.

JIMI: Do you hear me man?! These motherfuckers are building a time machine!

RON: What!?

A man pops up from behind a boulder, firing at our heros, who take off down a dune.

CUT. EXT. A DESERT CLIFF.

JIMI lies bloodied on the ground, precariously close to the cliff's edge, as the EVIL RINGLEADER paces in front of him. The prone body of RON lies in the background.

EVIL RINGLEADER: Yes, Mr. Hendrix. Soon we shall return to the days of your Civil War, and provide the Confederacy with these.

The man hefts an AK-47.

EVIL RINGLEADER: Where will you and your band of gypsies be then?

RON: Hey pal!

The Evil Ringleader whirls around in shock.

EVIL RINGLEADER: How?!

RON holds up a pocket constitution. Inside it is lodged a single bullet.

RON: Guns don't kill people. I do.

RON delivers a roundhouse kick to the face of the EVIL RINGLEADER, who plummets to his death off the cliff.

EXT. DAY. A MILITARY AIRFIELD.

RON: Look! We'll take that!

He is pointing to a blimp.

JIMI: I'm getting too old for this shit.

To the strains of VOODOO CHILD, a stream of quick action-packed cuts.

TERRORISTS drive in jeeps underneath the blimp, firing in the air and yelling in Afrikaans.

JIMI HENDRIX

JIMI wails on a guitar as TERRORISTS writhe in agony in front of enormous speakers.

DOCTOR RON PAUL

RON dives sideways, firing a pistol in each hand. Doves fly in the background.

THIS SUMMER

RON and JIMI stand back to back, surrounded by a band of TERRORIST NINJAS.

IN

RON and JIMI walk slowly towards the camera as the blimp crashes into the ground in a fiery explosion behind them.

CROSSTIME TRAFFIC

EXT. DAY. THE DESERT.

RON: No, see, the butterfly flaps its wings in China, and it causes a hurricane in Louisiana. So if you change the timeline -

JIMI: Man, I don't care about some Mothra-ass hurricane butterfly! We got time-traveling motherfuckers with machine guns here! They will fuck that butterfly up!

COMING SOON

This is the best thing.

[rick007]

Underwood Productions Presents:

Theodore Roosevelt: I once again accept the nomination of the Republican party.

A look at the past 100 years.

V/O: Who knows what would have happened if Theodore Roosevelt had not been re-elected in 1912.

This spring:

Theodore Roosevelt: I believe that the American people will lead the world to prosperity.

Comes the documentary event of the year:

The Bully Pulpit.