vid for gardnerhill: Something Good (Will Come From That)

[holmesticemods]

Title: Something Good (Will Come From That)
Recipient: gardnerhill
Author: sanguinity
Characters/Pairings: Holmes & Watson; Holmes/Watson
Rating: General
Summary: One hundred years of moving pictures about Holmes and Watson.
Author Notes:

My deepest thanks to my collaborator and source-monkey, k_e_p, without whom this would have required twice the work and been half as good. Major thanks also to grrlpup, who watched many hours of source and many drafts of the vid, and to ghost_lingering, who provided excellent beta and technical advice.

If you spot an error in the source list, please say so. I am especially uncertain that I have credited the correct actors for Jighangsha (1951). If there’s anyone out there who can double-check against the in-film credits (which are in Bengali script), that would be a great boon, thank you.

gardnerhill, I trust balance has been maintained in the Force. ;-)

Also on AO3: "Something Good (Will Come From That)"

"Something Good (Will Come From That)" (Watch on Vimeo)

Something Good (Will Come From That) from Sanguinity on Vimeo.

Sources
Audio:

1. “Would You Like to Take a Walk?” (ca. 1930), The Sunshine Boys
   
2. The BBC Complete Audio Sherlock Holmes (1989-1998), Clive Merrison & Michael Williams

Video:

1. Sherlock Holmes (1916), William Gillette & Edward Fielding
   
2. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1921), Eille Norwood & Hubert Willis
   
3. Sherlock Holmes (1922), John Barrymore & Roland Young
   
4. The Sleeping Cardinal | Sherlock Holmes’ Fatal Hour (1931), Arthur Wontner & Ian Fleming
   
5. The Triumph of Sherlock Holmes (1935), Arthur Wontner & Ian Fleming
   
6. Silver Blaze | Murder at the Baskervilles (1937), Arthur Wontner & Ian Fleming
   
7. The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939), Basil Rathbone & Nigel Bruce
   
8. Pursuit to Algiers (1945), Basil Rathbone & Nigel Bruce
   
9. জিঘাংসা (Jighangsha) | Revenge (1951), Sisir Batabyal and Biman Banerjee
   
10. Sherlock Holmes (1954-1955), Ronald Howard & Howard Marion Crawford
    
11. Sherlock Holmes und das Halsband des Todes | Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace (1962), Christopher Lee & Thorley Walters
    
12. Sherlock Holmes (1965), Douglas Wilmer & Nigel Stock
    
13. Sherlock Holmes (1968), Peter Cushing & Nigel Stock
    
14. The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970), Robert Stephens & Colin Blakely
    
15. They Might Be Giants (1971), George C. Scott & Joanne Woodward
    
16. Собака Баскервилей | The Hound of the Baskervilles (1971), Nikolay Volkov & Lev Krugliy
    
17. The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (1976), Nicol Williamson & Robert Duvall
    
18. Murder By Decree (1979), Christopher Plummer & James Mason
    
19. Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson (1979-1980), Geoffrey Whitehead & Donald Pickering
    
20. Приключения Шерлока Холмса и доктора Ватсона | The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson (1979-1986), Vasiliy Livanov & Vitali Solomin
    
21. The Hound of the Baskervilles (1982), Tom Baker & Terence Rigby
    
22. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1984-1985), Jeremy Brett & David Burke
    
23. 名探偵ホームズ | Sherlock Hound (1984-1985), Taichirō Hirokawa & Kōsei Tomita
    
24. Young Sherlock Holmes (1985), Nicholas Rowe & Alan Cox
    
25. The Return of Sherlock Holmes (1986-1988), Jeremy Brett & Edward Hardwicke
    
26. The Great Mouse Detective (1986), Barrie Ingham & Val Bettin
    
27. Мой нежно любимый детектив | My Dearly Beloved Detective (1986), Yekaterina Vasilyeva & Galina Shchepetnova
    
28. Without a Clue (1988), Michael Caine & Ben Kingsley
    
29. Star Trek: The Next Generation: Elementary, My Dear Data (1988), Brent Spiner & LeVar Burton
    
30. 1994 Baker Street: Sherlock Holmes Returns (1993), Anthony Higgins & Debrah Farentino
    
31. 福尔摩斯与中国女侠 | Sherlock Holmes in China (1994), Alex Vanderpor & Zhongquan Xu
    
32. Wishbone: The Slobbery Hound, A Dogged Exposé (1995), Soccer & Ric Spiegel
    
33. The Adventures of Shirley Holmes (1996-1999), Meredith Henderson & John White
    
34. Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century (1999-2001), Jason Gray-Stanford & John Payne
    
35. O Xangô de Baker Street | The Xango of Baker Street (2001), Joaquim de Almeida & Anthony O'Donnell
    
36. Veggie Tales: Sheerluck Holmes and the Golden Ruler (2006), Mike Nawrocki & Phil Vischer
    
37. Sherlock Holmes (2009), Robert Downey Jr. & Jude Law
    
38. Sherlock Holmes (2010), Ben Syder & David Gareth-Lloyd
    
39. Sherlock (2010- ), Benedict Cumberbatch & Martin Freeman
    
40. Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011), Robert Downey Jr. & Jude Law
    
41. Sherlock Holmes Nevében | In the Name of Sherlock Holmes (2011), Kristof Szenasi & Adam Ungvar
    
42. Elementary (2012- ), Jonny Lee Miller & Lucy Liu
    
43. 221B Baker Towers (as visualised by mind-tardis, 2012), John Boyega & Leeon Jones
    
44. По горячим следам | In Hot Pursuit (2013), Molly Metaphora & Liru-chan
    
45. Шерлок Холмс | Sherlock Holmes (2013), Igor Petrenko & Andrey Panin
    
46. 셜록홈즈: 앤더슨가의 비밀 | Sherlock Holmes: The Secret of the Anderson Family (2014 revival), Song Yong-jin & Park Hye-na
    
47. Sherlock Holmes & John Watson: Break Free (2014), Frogwares
    
48. Baker Street 221B (2014), Ícaro Silva & Fábio Cardoso
    
49. The Adventures of Jamie Watson and Sherlock Holmes (2014- ), Shannen Michaelson & Sara-Renee Weatherby
    
50. Herlock (2015), Gia Mora & Alana Jordan
    
51. Baker Street (2015- ), Hannah Drew & Karen Slater
    
52. Mister Holmes (2015), Ian McKellen with Nicholas Rowe
    
53. A Study in Charlotte (2016), Emma Pfaeffle & Matt Rosell
    
54. S(her)lock (2016- ), Helen Davies & Lisa Bunker

Lyrics

I saw you strolling by your solitary
Am I nosy? Very very!
I’d like to bet a juicy huckleberry
What you’re after is a boy
We’re both in luck for introductions are not necessary…

Mm-mm-mm, would you like to take a walk?
Mm-mm-mm, do you think it’s gonna rain?
Mm-mm-mm, how about a sarsparilla?
Gee, the moon is yellow!
Something good will come from that.

Mm-mm-mm, have you heard the latest song?
Mm-mm-mm, it’s a very pretty strain.
Mm-mm-mm, don’t you feel a little thrilly?
Gee, it’s getting chilly!
Something good will come from that!

When you’re strolling through the where-sis
You need a who-sis to lean upon
When you have no who-sis
To hug and what-sis
Dog-gone!

Mm-mm-mm, would you like to take a walk?
Mm-mm-mm, do you think it’s gonna rain?
Mm-mm-mm, aren’t you tired of the talkies?
I prefer the walkies
Something good will come from that.

Walking and talking with a girl like you
Is about the sweetest thing any boy can do
I’d rather be romancing than walking, dear
I’d rather be dancing… Oh, let’s dance here.

Doot-doo-doo, have you heard the song of spring?
Doot-doo-doo, you can hear it everywhere.
Doot-doo-doo, when you see the little roses
Turning up their noses
Something good will come from that.

Mm-mm-mm, when you see a butterfly
Mm-mm-mm, nodding to a buttercup
Mm-mm-mm, when you hear a little cricket
Chirping in the thicket
Something good will come from that.

Oh, say, I'd love to be your who-sis
We could go where-sis most every night
We could love and what-sis
You’d find your who-sis just right.

Doot-doo-doot-doo-doo, take a walk in lover’s lane
Doot-doo-doot-doo-doo, then you’ll hear that song of spring
Doot-doo-doot-doo-doo, when you hear those lovers sighing
Then there’s no denying
Something good will come from that!
...and that!
...and that!

 

Comments

[swissmarg]

That was incredible!! Wow, I can't believe you tracked down all of these and found all the matching scenes and themes and bits. So much work! And it all comes together so well. I'm a bit bowled over by it all. Especially fun: the last little breathless bit, hehehe, wink wink nod nod...

[sanguinity]

Thank you!

k_e_p and I have been backburnering this vid idea for a while now, brainstorming and watching stuff and taking notes, so I had a deep stack of references to draw from when it came to actually building the vid itself. That helped enormously, in terms of workload: there's relatively few clips that we had to explicitly hunt out a match for.

And I am exceedingly pleased to know that it came together well. By rights, it ought to have been a great chaotic mess, given all the kinds of things that went into it, but I guess that's the upside of having so much source to draw from: you can be picky about finessing your visual matches, if you want to. :-)

Heh, that last breathless voiceover doesn't sound anywhere near that racy in context, but I laughed heartily when I realized what it was going to sound like after three minutes of relentless mental priming. I'm glad you thought it was fun, too. :-D

[rachelindeed.livejournal.com]

That. Was. Incredible. I seriously cannot imagine how much work must have gone into finding all those wonderful scenes and snippets. The result is such a charming, joyful thing! So much love and thought and unrepentant weirdness and sincere heart have been poured into these characters in so many times and places. I can't imagine a better tribute to the many faces of Holmesiana! I LOVED THIS. Thanks for the Force balancing, it was gorgeous <3

[sanguinity]

Well, k_e_p and I have been backburnering this idea for a while, brainstorming and watching things and taking notes, which helped considerably. :-)

:: So much love and thought and unrepentant weirdness and sincere heart have been poured into these characters in so many times and places. ::

YES. That was exactly what we were hoping to show off, the heart and weirdness and joy, and I'm delighted it came through so clearly. Thank you for your kind words; I'm very glad you enjoyed it. <3

[methylviolet10b]

OMG!!! This is so brilliant, I'm practically speechless. Mystery creator, you are a GENIUS!!!

[sanguinity]

Aw, thank you!

And look at you, with your lovely and fitting Sherlock Hemlock icon! I looked at a number of Sherlock Hemlock clips, but never found one that was striking enough to carry its own weight in the vid. Which is a shame. However, the list of things that I didn't get into the vid is long, long, looooong... :-)

[methylviolet10b]

Heh - I'm not surprised that you couldn't find a good Sherlock Hemlock clip, as he was a very minor Muppet character, AND you found SO MUCH AMAZING STUFF from so many incarnations. I'm still awed at how you managed to fit so many adaptations in and do it so thematically, seamlessly, and movingly. Brava!

[sanguinity]

Oh, minor in Sesame Street terms, sure, but the show has been running for decades: it still amounts to a couple-dozen segments, far more footage than some things in the vid. (For comparison, the book-trailer for Study in Charlotte is two and a half minutes long; the trailer for the Brazillian play 221B Baker Street is similarly scant. 221B Baker Towers doesn't have any source material; it's all fancasting from other films and such.) The bigger challenges with Sherlock Hemlock was how often he didn't have a Watson, how low-quality a lot of the available source is, and how affectless puppets tend to be when you remove the soundtrack.

And thank you! There were actually two of us looking for stuff for the vid: k_e_p watched a ton of stuff for me, making notes about where the good moments were. And it helped considerably that all of these adapts are drawing on the same source material, however loosely some might be doing it: they collectively spend a decent chunk of time on cross-talk, homages to each other, and their own reinterpretations of classic holmes/watson-y moments. When it came time to build the vid proper, I had a deep stack of notes to draw upon.

I'm very pleased with the way it came out, and it has been a great satisfaction to see everyone else enjoying it so well, too. :-D

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

OMG ALL THE FUCKING AWARDS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

...So. SO. Perfect. Where to start with how perfect this is? I can only grasp at the ones that just stand out from all the rest of the wonderfulness:

* Wishbone.
* Veggie Tales (Exactly at the moment I gaped and said, "Well, this one has everything but the Veggie Tales!")
* The voice-over at the end from the Clive Merrison/Michael Williams BBC Radio.
* The segue from Ian McKellen watching the grown-up Nicholas Rowe as the silent-film Holmes...to young Nicholas Rowe as Young Sherlock Holmes.
* Seven Percent Solution
* ALL the Russian versions including My Dearly Beloved Detective

I am almost in tears at how beautiful this is. (And yes, you're forgiven for including BBC Sherlock in the mix!) And it is so wonderful and so needed after the horrific way this day started. It is joyful and loving and oh I can't.

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

[sanguinity]

Heh, I wish I'd managed to smash in there everything you've written (Duck-tective! Strange Case of the End of Civilisation!), but if it managed to feel like everything was in there, then I am well-satisfied. :-D

And I'm very, very pleased that you enjoyed it so well, and that it could give comfort on such a terrible day. Watching the comments come in that afternoon helped me, too. Joy shared and shared back again: it's not a small thing.

You are very welcome, and thank you for the big, lovely, open, free space you left for me to make a thing for you!

[scfrankles.livejournal.com]

Like everyone else, I'm just overwhelmed by the amount of work that must have gone into this. But the end result seems effortlessly flawless - one scene perfectly flowing into the next, and the clips matching the lyrics without ever seeming too on the nose.

I'll pinch a word used elsewhere: joyful is the perfect description for the vid. And it's so witty too - I particularly loved the dancing section.

Seeing these two characters being reinterpreted over and over again is like seeing the bigger picture. We may individually prefer different versions but in the end they're all Holmes and Watson, and they're all part of a continuous line that will carry on indefinitely into the future - and continue to bring people together.

[sanguinity]

Oo, 'effortlessly flawless'! And 'joyful,' and 'witty'... You say the nicest things.

And yes, your big-picture view is absolutely one of the things that I hoped to convey, the way they're all Holmes and Watson (except I would say radiating fan, instead of continuous line, because there's so much temporal overlap and cross-talk between them), and the joys in one often have points of overlap with another--

--and I'm not super-good with words about this, because I've been vidding it, instead of talking it, but yes, that's what I wanted to put out there. My joy in that great big Holmes-and-Watson-y mess of stuff, and invite other people to share it, too. :-D

Thank you, and I'm glad to know you liked it so well!

[amindamazed.livejournal.com]

This is a fantastic tour de force, so beautifully done. My favorite bits not yet mentioned by others are the sequence of H&W mirroring each other clips and the sync of "Would you like to" as 22ndC Holmes (I think) spoke.

ps: and now I've finally seen The One With the Dinosaurs

[amindamazed.livejournal.com]

more favorite bits: the "butterfly" and the flip of the Elementary ring scene so that Watson is on the same side of the screen as in the Granada Blue Carbuncle clip that comes next.

background detail I want to know: the story of finding the song. is it something you've been wanting to use in a vid? did you somehow find it after decided to vid for Holmestice? how did this magic come to be?!?

[sanguinity]

Well, us Elementary fans love our mirroring shots; the camerawork doesn't give us much else to play with, shippiness-wise. Gotta use them when you find them! (Myself, I'm ridiculously pleased with how well that sequence came out -- thank you for your help with it!)

'Would you like to (take a walk?)" is soooooo much better than what 22C!Holmes is actually saying right there. ("Eyes and brains, Watson! Eyes and brains!" It takes real nerve to deliberately fake your death and then, immediately upon revealing yourself to be alive, to scold your closest companion for falling for it.)

Oh, no you don't! You don't get credit for having seen The One With the Dinosaurs until you've sat through every execrable minute of it! I will say, though, that you've now seen... a third? of all the dinosaur footage in the film. The dinosaurs only show up a few times, and they're very blink-and-you'll-miss-them.

Hee! The pterodactyl amuses me greatly, too. If you can't have multiple adaptations with dinosaurs, you can at least bring in the mechanical paleofauna as you find it.

You wouldn't have reason to notice most of them, but there are a lot of flopped clips in the vid! I didn't want to flop the Elementary blue carbuncle scene -- I figured it was iconic enough that Elementary fans would notice -- but it works so much better when it's flopped like that. (And it's not just to match Granada -- although that's where the bigger payoff is -- but to match the spatula clip before that, too.) Another flopped clip you might have noticed is the opening shot of Lucy Liu approaching the brownstone for the first time: flopped to make her part of a progression of Watsons, making their way across the screen. I originally had a temporal sequence of Watsons -- 1916, 1954, 1984, 2012 -- before deciding that at the rate I was clipping, a spatial sequence read more cleanly and comfortably than a chronological one.

I talk about the song a bit in the commentary post (because you asked!), but it's a song that I've loved forever, and it occurred to me one day that it'd make for a great Holmestice vid. How or why it occurred to me, I don't remember, but I'm very pleased it did. :-)

And thank you for the very kind rec you made on tumblr!

[phoenixfalls.livejournal.com]

Oh, how completely and utterly delightful this is! So many wonderful moments, so many absolutely amazing parallels, so many adaptations I still have to consume myself! In addition to all the stuff mentioned above, I was particularly squeeful when I spotted the recent Elementary proposal scene and John Boyega(?!?), and then all the scenes of Holmes torturing Watson with his violin had me grinning. But seriously, everything I recognized was so perfectly chosen and everything I didn't recognize was still so obviously Holmes & Watson, that the vid as a whole was so much of a piece, such a wonderfully unified 'verse.

[sanguinity]

You know, I originally thought that there was going to be more domestic-harmony violin stuff, but I found waaaaaay more footage of violin-strife. (That opening shot from the 1954 Howard TV series looks peaceful, but Watson has earplugs in, unbeknownst to Holmes.)

And John Boyega, as I know you already know by now, is a popular fancast for Holmes in 221B Baker towers; I was riffing off of mind-tardis' vid with those two clips.

And I am very, very pleased to know that the vid works even when one doesn't know all these Holmeses and Watsons. I did various vidderly things to try to make the continuity of characters as clear as possible, but... It's very nice to know that it was effective. :-)

[saki101.livejournal.com]

Oh, that was a delight! You wove them all together with the lyrics so beautifully. Data and Geordi and the ending were particular treats! (I can't stop smiling!)

Thank you for this! :-D

[sanguinity]

Aw, thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed!

[venusinthenight]

*reads the source list* OH. MY. GOD. MUCH THOROUGH.

*watches the vid* SO MANY HEARTS. Love, love, love!

[sanguinity]

<3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3

[burnt-hearts.livejournal.com]

Wow. Just wow. Thank you so much! I can't even imagine the time and effort that when into this. Really superb work, perfect song choice, great editing, and SO much source material! You've really done a great thing here. My favorite bit was about the last ten seconds before the credits roll; the open affection between (the many iterations of) Watson and Holmes really shines in those last few snippets.

Again, fantastic work!

[sanguinity]

I love the ending, too. I spent a long time fussing with the close, trying to find something that worked, before finally deciding that yeah, I really could just pack those final lyrics with a bunch of miscellaneous shots of them gazing adoringly at each other, across several countries and decades. :-)

Thank you so much!

[punknovelette.livejournal.com]

What a wonderful tribute to the history of Sherlock Holmes. I enjoyed it very much!

[sanguinity]

Thank you! I'm very glad you enjoyed!

Magnificent!!

[red-chapel.livejournal.com]

You have captured the true meaning of Holmestice. The all-inclusive, charming, witty, genius true reason why we are all here, where it will always be 1895--even in the 22nd century.

Re: Magnificent!!

[sanguinity]

Aw, thank you!

Fun fact (and one which startled me somewhat, when I was watching source): Holmes and Watson weren't 'always' 1895 until after WWII. In fact, outside of the first two Rathbone films, H&W were never 1895. Aside from those, everything I watched that was made before 1946 was all set during the various years they were filmed. That wasn't a marked thing during the 1910s, of course -- Holmes' last adventure was in 1914, and new stories were still being published through the 1920s -- but by the time you get into the 1930s and the 1940s, the non-Victorianness of these productions was pretty noticeable.

And then boom, WWII finished, and suddenly Holmes and Watson were always 1895. I tell you, I learned so many cool things, watching source for this. :-)

[graycardinal]

Oh, spectacular, for all the reasons already given.

And now I am intrigued, because either someone has been extraordinarily busy this round, or I am going to be very surprised by one of at least two reveals when the time comes.

[sanguinity]

Thank you!

As it turns out, I was extraordinarily busy this round, but sadly, it wasn't because I was making treats or pinch-hits. :-)

[dryadinthegrove]

Omfg this is amazing!!!

To say I love it is an understatement, and it's kind of made my Monday.

(I'd forgotten Data and Geordi LaForge!)

[sanguinity]

Aw, I'm so pleased I was able to bring cheer to a Monday!

Data and Geordi! I had wanted to include them, but went back and forth because they're not 'really' Holmes and Watson (for what are admittedly shaky values of 'really'), they're just play-acting Holmes and Watson, but then I suddenly had a whole verse of people playing Holmes to someone else's Watson (or vice versa) and they fit in beautifully there. :-)

[haikitteh.livejournal.com]

OMG you even included Data & Geordi, you darling!

Loved the song choice, it was absolutely perfect. This was such a special treat!

[swissmarg]

Perfect icon is perfect! ;)

[sanguinity]

Data and Geordi spent a little while moving around the vid while I tried to find the right place for them. (For a long while, it looked like they might be the punchline of 'strolling through the where-sis' -- France, Toronto, SPACE! -- before I settled them where they are now.) But Data and Geordi were on the spreadsheet pretty early in the game and were definitely going in the vid, if I could at all swing it. Because Data and Geordi! :-)

And thank you! I'm very glad you enjoyed it!

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

So very enjoyable!

[sanguinity]

Thank you so much!

[monkiainen.livejournal.com]

Mystery Vidder, you are all kinds of amazing <3

[sanguinity]

Aw, you're very kind! I'm glad you enjoyed it. <3

[ancientreader]

Wow. WOW. I don't like fanvids, okay? The form just doesn't do anything for me. But this! This is stellarly clever, charming, so meticulously researched -- when I saw how impressed everyone was with it, I had to watch, and it has got past all my prejudices. So well done. I'm going to sit back and say WOW some more.

[sanguinity]

Aw, it's such a compliment when someone likes a thing despite the medium/fandom/pairing! You're very kind, and I'm very pleased that it turned out to be worth your time. :-)

[garonne.livejournal.com]

This is fantastic! I loved the way you have the same scene echoing across different adaptations. It reminds me just how timeless Sherlock Holmes really is. I could see Watson react to Holmes' return from the dead a hundred times and never tire of it. And the images fit the music so well... the cricket in the thicket was just perfect! I was laughing out loud.

[sanguinity]

It was so much fun to begin a scene or gesture in one adaptation and end it in another! I admit, every time I got it to work, I was exceedingly pleased with myself. (When making a thing, one must take one's joys where one finds them!)

Fun fact, I clipped and built that Reichenbach-and-Return supercut in a single day. Six back-to-back Reichenbachs, followed by five Returns. My emails to my collaborator from that day run a bit... ahem, florid. (k_e_p mostly just sat over there on the other side of the continent, well away from any screen showing a Reichenbach or a Return, and laughed at me. As she does.)

CRICKET IN THE THICKET. There were a couple lyric matches that I knew all the way back from the first day, and that was one of them. It might even have been the first set of clips I put in the timeline, when I finally began building it. It was just a delightfully, marvelously stupid thing to do, and it still makes me laugh. I'm so glad it makes you laugh, too. :-D

Thank you, and I'm glad you enjoyed it so well!

[jesse_the_k]

I can't say anything more novel, but I can say your work is fabulous.

This is the vid I will use to introduce people to "why vidding is cool."

Thank you for your evident hard labor combined with such good humor.

[sanguinity]

Thank you so much! And I must say, I was absolutely floored when I saw what company you put this vid in. I'm very pleased that you enjoyed it so well!

[garrideb.livejournal.com]

This is amazing! I'm definitely going to have to rewatch multiple times to catch more of the nuances, and I'm looking forward to that! I love the song you chose - it really gives the vid a fun, light-hearted feeling while also showing off the timelessness of Sherlock Holmes. And all those sources! I'm in awe of how much work you put into this.

I think my favorite parts were the "let's dance here," and "Have you heard the latest song?" with Sherlock using his violin as an alarm clock, because both parts made me laugh. Too cute!

[sanguinity]

I am so glad that the song worked out -- I worried right up to go-live that it was too recent to be truly appropriate, too old-fashioned to be widely enjoyed, and too American to boot. But there's a certain point where you just have to trust your instincts, and believe that if you thoroughly enjoy a thing you're making, that there will be others who get a kick out of it, too. (And look! The magic happened! Other people liked it, too! I can't tell you how pleased I am.)

Putting this together was a joint project with k_e_p. She declined co-author credit because she 'only' helped with brainstorming and watching source (that 'only' is her opinion, not mine!), but her efforts had a lot to do with how many different kinds of things are in the vid. (She watched all of Rathbone for me, a couple of the TV series and webseries, etc., which gave me the space to launch myself at a lot of the one-off kinds of things.) It was a lot of work, but it was also a lot of fun, and it was especially fun to have someone to do it with.

And I love those parts of the vid, too. :-D

Thank you, and I'm so glad you enjoyed it!

[debriswoman]

Adding my admiration for such a history and celebration so well told:-)

[sanguinity]

Thank you! I'm very pleased you enjoyed it!