Is there any relevant videos before Bones Brigade / H Street / Santa Cruz?

[rawbertson.]

Yo

Was just thinking about like the history of skate vids that are sorta like "canon" . is there anything relevant before the powell / h street / santa cruz era?

----

Animal Chin, Ban This, Future Primitive, Video Show
Streets of Fire/wheels of Fire/Speed Freaks (Santa Cruz)
H STreet Hokus Pokus / Shackle Me Not
G+S Footage
Gullwing
Sick Boys (Dogtown)
Strange Notes
Savannah Slamma
NSA Southwestern Pro-Am
NSA Del Mar 1985
Terror in Tahoe
Skate Visions / Psycho Vision
Thrasher Skate Rock
Schmitt Stix
----

New Deal Useless Wooden Toys / 1281
Blockhead vids
Video Days
Rubbish Heap / love child
Plan B Questionable / Revolution / Virtual Reality

----

trilogy / new world order / 20 shot seq
2nd hand smoke
timecode
early toy machine vids
first tws / thrasher / 411s started comin out
Eastern Exposure 1 + 2
FTC vids (penal code)
Mad Circle vids

----

misled youth
welcome to hell / jump off a building
fulfill the dream
round 1 / 2
Nervous Breakdown
Photosynthesis
The End
tws was at about transmission 7 by this point
Static
Mixtape (Zoo York)
EE3

----

menikmati
Sorry
Baker2g
Dying to Live
Guilty
One Step Beyond
This is Skateboarding
Tilt Mode/ man down
TWS golden era Feedback / Reason / Modus / Sight Unseen
Trasher got to about TImebomb or so
Static 2

----

Really Sorry
Stay Gold
Baker 3
Bag of Suck
Round 3
TWS vids got shittier

out of time but would like to make a solid list of the vids i thought were most progressive for the time

[mushroom slice]

It’s a little before my time but Sick Boys had a pretty heavy line up

[rawbertson.]

oh shit i forgot about sick boys. i need to watch that actually, thank you
i think i am missing some dogtown stuff like cardiel was on dogtown for a minute right?
really curious to see this montreal one

[assvogel]

In the 70's skateboarding was still considered a fad, so you can mostly find skateboarding in films like Skateboard Madness (1980), but the actual skating isn't really the focus.

It was until 1984 for when videos like the Bones Brigade Video Show and Visions Skatevisions came out, where the movie was used as a tool to sell product and image.

[weregoingunion]

i feel like powell/h-street/santa cruz kinda started the skate video format. maybe earlier stuff i’d consider canon was from contest videos like the nsa stuff or savannah slamma, or through movies like devils toy mentioned below, 70s movies like skateboard or freewheelin’ that had tony alva & stacy peralta in them, or 80s like gleaming the cube & thrashin. skaterdater is supposed to be the first skateboard movie & it came out in 1965.

[MisterX]

It’s a little before my time but Sick Boys had a pretty heavy line up

This was the first skate video I saw.  Definitely influential in my opinion.  I used to rent this and the '87 Savannah Slamma contest video from the local grocery store as a kid.

[backinaction]

Powell really was the start of it.  In the Powell documentary Stacy says they expected to sell around 300 copies of The Bones Brigade Video Show and they ended up selling 30,000.  That was '83 and it started taking off from there.

I started in '87 and other than the Powell / Santa Cruz I also had Gullwing videos.  No, they weren't as good - but at the time they were relevant.

[TelethonJohn]

I don't think I could take any 90's list seriously that doesn't include Eastern Exposure 3. EE2 and the Sub Zero video are worth a watch too but EE3 was just mind-blowing at the time. I wouldn't count out the first FTC video and Fucktards either.

As far as pre H-Street and Video Days, Skate Visions gave Agent Orange to the masses and is still fun to watch, although corny in parts. There were way more contest videos sold commercially than there were team videos in the 80's. As has been documented pretty exhaustively, team videos became far more important than contests in the early 90's but before that, contests and magazines were primarily where the innovative stuff was first seen. So to omit contest videos from the "canon" or whatever probably does both the videos and the canon an injustice.

There are so many of them, but some that come to mind are

NSA Southwestern Pro-Am
NSA Del Mar 1985
Terror in Tahoe
Any Savannah Slamma but 3 is probably the most well known.

[OMSK]

I had a Thrasher "Skate Rock" video volume 1 (I think thats what it was). I watched it for months/years. Best/worst editing, music and skating... but a true classic.

[Mike Oxwelling]

Bones Bridage Video Show and Skate Visions.  They are often considered the first skatevideos.   They came out in 1984.  Between then and 88 there were at least 10 NSA contest videos.   They are very relevant.

[biaherl]

[Mesteezo]

If we’re bringing influence of surfing into this, than surely Endless Summer (1966) had some sort of influence?

[brokenarm]

Tempe AZ Street contest video was sick and had all the rippers. It’s on the Tube. Like others said def check out sick boys

[Crabby_Bastard]

Skateboarding with the Schmitt Stix Team

[ManimalChin]

Everyone needs to watch Skateboard Kings

[GardenSkater77]

Also very important:



And @rawbertson

You were referencing DTS.

[GardenSkater77]

I don't think I could take any 90's list seriously that doesn't include Eastern Exposure 3. EE2 and the Sub Zero video are worth a watch too but EE3 was just mind-blowing at the time. I wouldn't count out the first FTC video and Fucktards either.

As far as pre H-Street and Video Days, Skate Visions gave Agent Orange to the masses and is still fun to watch, although corny in parts. There were way more contest videos sold commercially than there were team videos in the 80's. As has been documented pretty exhaustively, team videos became far more important than contests in the early 90's but before that, contests and magazines were primarily where the innovative stuff was first seen. So to omit contest videos from the "canon" or whatever probably does both the videos and the canon an injustice.

There are so many of them, but some that come to mind are

NSA Southwestern Pro-Am
NSA Del Mar 1985
Terror in Tahoe
Any Savannah Slamma but 3 is probably the most well known.

BTW—you did a great job safe guarding the bench from Mr. Big himself Kit Erickson in Hocus Pokus.

[TelethonJohn]

BTW—you did a great job safe guarding the bench from Mr. Big himself Kit Erickson in Hocus Pokus.

Aw man. RIP Kit Erickson. Respect.

I actually wound up going to UCSB in 2000 and never did manage finding the guy. I honestly wanted to tell him that he had become one of the most famous non-skaters ever to be in a skate video.

[Jimmy The Saint]

New Deal - Useless Wooden Toys/1281.
Speed Freaks
Sick Boys.

[Ilya Oblomov]

[wu tang joe]

Were the Blockhead videos big? I recently got the box set and Splendid Eye Torture is my favorite I like that era of basic street tricks going fast and all the mini ramp tricks you dont really see anymore.

[Plan9Customs]

It’s a little before my time but Sick Boys had a pretty heavy line up

This. Rare Winsor footage and Stranger skating the city streets.

[Grip Jobs]

Used to get some stuff like this from the library or I might have recorded from public access

[Plan9Customs]

oh shit i forgot about sick boys. i need to watch that actually, thank you
i think i am missing some dogtown stuff like cardiel was on dogtown for a minute right?
really curious to see this montreal one

Forgot about that one as well. Yeah thanks to that one I got through the awful slow and low stages of the bpsw era unscathed. Fast and big with Cardiel and Speyer. Black Labels Crummy Promo video is also worth a watch. Shawn Martin is always worth a watch.

[Youoverthere]

This is from 86 so it’s a smidge older than Animal Chin.

[Tuff Lover]

Before all those was this.  Hard to downplay its significance

[rawbertson.]

Oh man! SO many awesome vids in this thread! Thank you guys this is exactly what i was wondering

Cant believe i forgot Eastern Exposure vids! Those were also some of my favorite + also the Zoo York videos Mixtape and EST!

Savannah Slamma always one of my favs for sure i never knew about these Vision videos at all

[breezer]

Bill Danforth Street Survival

[chipped tail]

Skaterdater

[funeral_tuxedo]

this thread rules the school

just throwing GTC in since it's what first got me into skating: