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viral videos. >> oh, my god, what happened -- what happened to that guy? >> uploaded daily. >> everybody want to see stuff that goes slightly awry. >> viewed by millions. >> how could this not go viral. >> looks can be deceiving. >> people are debating, is this real or fake? >> you're my wife? >> yeah. >> holy [ bleep ] -- >> how could he not remember who his wife is? >> oh! my god! >> like, yeah. i caught a bird. >> we'll let you in on the truth. >> big -- that's my impression of everyone on youtube. fake.
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>> 21 seconds. "caught on camera: viral videos true or false." extreme sports videos. they leave our hearts pounding and adrenaline pumping. >> i think we love extreme videos because we can live through them without having to risk your own life. >> when it doesn't go well there's that element of jackass, like, my god, i can't that just happened. >> no one can believe what happens in this next video. >> you see this high bar on the edge of this cliff. this guy is hanging from it. >> as we all know, base jumping's gotten pretty boring. you need to do things to make it more exciting. and he is flipping around. now, one might think that the setup crew would make sure that that high bar was extra sturdy.
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so as he's flipping, suddenly the high bar just up and collapses. >> and you're kind of wondering, is he falling to his death, you don't really see it. >> oh, my god. what happened? what happened to that guy? >> the base jump gone bad leaves millions on the edge of their seats hoping that the video is fake. >> well, this could easily be faked. the cliff could have a level right below it that we haven't seen. so even if it did break, maybe he just fell two feet. >> there's something about the guy's reaction that makes me think maybe this is fake because i don't understand why a guy who just saw his buddy fly off a cliff doesn't even get up. >> i thought this was definitely real. this is the kind of thing that the people who will go base jumping are just crazy enough to do. set up a high bar, you know, to make it even scarier. >> it's a very exciting demonstration of newton's laws. >> sir isaac would be proud. we've got another camera angle showing that the terrifying tumble is, in fact, legit.
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the stunt gone wrong is performed by base jumper richard henrikson for the norwegian television show "normal madness." >> a lot of viral videos speak to our deepest instincts of wanting to see something but almost wincing or peeking between our fingers. i think any video that taps into that can be powerful viewing. >> have no fear, that other angle reveals henrikson surviving the nearly 4,000-foot fall. luckily, he keeps his composure, opens his parachute, and lands with barely a scratch. but it could have been much worse. his head comes within inches of slamming into the rock face. and seconds later, the apparatus comes crashing down, narrowly missing the base jumper. >> after this they probably had a talk about what we could have done differently. people make mistakes, but this is a big mistake. >> you don't have to be on a mountainside to risk life and limb. you can be in your own bedroom.
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>> hi, guys, it's drew here. i am back with a video. >> today i'm doing a black friday -- >> what's going on? >> thif i have this entire bag - >> a surprise party -- >> haul video, a shopper trend known to rake in millions of hit. >> a haul video, not h-a-l-l, h-a-u-l, is when someone goes out and acquires a bunch of stuff and then makes a video showing people on youtube what they got. >> so i went there, and i got a couple pairs of sweat pants, can you see the colors? >> they call them haul videos because i think they've just hauled bags of stuff home. >> it's a form of validation. creating a haul video makes them feel good about what they acquired. >> in september, 2013, a bizarre haul video surfaces and leaves viewers shopping for answers. >> what's up, guys? like i said before, i'll get it fixed. i know. >> we have this guy with a sort of a -- you know, biker stash thing going on.
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>> if you like knives, i buy a lot of knives. this one's called the wizard knife. >> a wizard knife, of course, yes. everyone knows that wizards have a different kind of knife. >> look at that handle. it's -- -- >> wondering where in the depths of ebay he found that knife. >> and i bought a 500 -- >> you know something's going to happen. >> you just don't know exactly what it is yet. [ gunshot ] >> hopefully he lives in the top floor of his building. >> ma? >> i'm kind of getting the impression, oh, god, he's just shot his mother in the room upstairs. >> but did he? >> ma? >> my first reaction was real. it's within the realm of possibility that something like this could happen. >> it seems like he's awfully relaxed about the whole thing which led me to believe it was fake.
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>> not enough stuff falls down from the ceiling. and i know that when you shoot a ceiling, a lot of stuff comes down because i've shot quite a few ceilings. college, man, you know, it's college. what are you going to do? >> ma? >> don't worry. mom is okay. the video is 100% fake. the trigger-happy trickster is comedian jess weber. >> i love doing standup. i love doing improv and writing sketches. >> to get his name out, jess creates a youtube channel called weber's way. >> we make up funny stories, skits. we try to make fun of every situation we see on tv and the internet. >> jeff decides to take on the haul video genre with a bang. he grows a mustache and compiles an arsenal of weapons. >> the gun i had in the beginning, that was just a pellet gun. the knife is actually a wizard knife. i did buy it at a flea market like 15 years ago. >> the shotgun is an air soft shotgun.
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it's compressed air that shoots a plastic pellet. >> jeff uses an intrickal method to create the ceiling debris. who are we kidding? it's done with a tv antenna and paper towels. >> i'd tape the paper towel right here like this. and i had bits and pieces of paper towel on top so when i shot the shotgun the pellet would hit the paper towel and all the pieces would fall down. >> but the makeshift special effect has a few kinks. >> i would shoot it and nothing would come down. >> nothing. >> jess perfects the system and it's time to roll on the action. >> that's how you do it. everything was improvised. it took four or five takes to get it right. >> after about an hour of shooting, jess nails the performance. he adds some finishing touches in edit. >> i did the muzzle flash, i put
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that in, the smoke. that's all fake, and the sound effects for the gun and the sound effects for hitting the ceiling and making that sound of it crumbling down. >> jess uploads the video to his youtube page and soon it's the shotgun blast heard around the internet. >> this is kind of one of those you have to watch it videos. you're like this is either going to be funny or horrible but either way i'm watching it. >> everybody wants to see stuff that goes slightly awry. >> ma? >> and it, bam, just happens and surprises you. >> viewers fire off comments debate the validity of this haul video gone bad. >> some people say, oh, that's fake. all the people who said it's fake, guess what, you're right. there you go. i got most of you. >> ma? >> coming up, the catch of a
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lifetime. >> oh, my god! >> or is it? >> it's so baller. just holds it up like -- i'm expecting a building to blow up behind him. >> and later, can this possibly be legal? >> i had a couple of relatives who were upset and thought, i think he's going too far. >> when "caught on camera" continues. continues. watching football together is great... ...but i think women would agree... ...huddling with their man after the game is nice too. the thing is, about half of men over 40
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hunting, it's a sport that requires patience, accuracy, and a keen eye. but many can't believe their own eyes when they see this field video. >> coming at you. >> oh, my god! >> what happened? >> we opened with a guy in hunting gear. just kind of walking in a field, and you see this bird going right for this hunter. >> coming at you. >> oh, my god. >> all of a sudden he's caught
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it in his hand. >> it's so baller. you just caught a bird in the air and he just holds it up like. i'm expecting a building to blow up behind him. >> it is probably one of the manliest things that was caught on camera. >> coming at you. >> but is it too manly to be true? >> i feel like birds have better instincts than to be caught by a human hand. >>'s a little too cool and collected about it. if i caught a bird i'd be like what, what, i caught a bird. he's just like, yeah, i caught a bird. >> unbelievable as it may seem, the man with the cat-like reflexes is totally real. >> why does this guy even have a gun? he clearly doesn't need a gun. he just needs his hands. >> the hunter is pastor matt carter of the austin stone church in austin, texas. matt's church has more than 7,000 members, including nfl quarterback colt mccoy. >> he started coming to my
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church in austin and we just developed a friendship. >> in may 2013 colt and matt publish a book called "the real win." >> we talk about what it's like to be a good husband and a good father. the co-authors head to the great outdoors to film a hunting and fishing video companion series for the book. matt's 12-year-old son j.d. tags along for the adventure. >> it was a great bonding time with me and my dad. we had been quail hunting the whole day, and we were pretty much done. >> they were trying to get some kind of reflective b roll of matt walking through the field at the end of the hunt. >> suddenly an unexpected guest start makes an appearance. >> i just looked up and i saw this quail flying right at me. >> coming at you, coming at you. >> my dad shifts the gun to his left hand. >> and i instinctively threw my hand up and caught it. >> oh, my god. >> i just got that on camera. >> sweet catch.
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>> believe it or not, what went through my head was i just did something that my grand kids are going to talk about. >> if i hadn't seen it with my own eyes, i would have never believed it. >> that was cool. >> no one is going to believe this. i don't believe it and i'm watching it right now. >> kind of our first reaction was when we realized one of the camera guys caught it on film was we got to get this thing on youtube. >> after a quick photo shoot matt frees the bird. days later he you be loads the video with an ad for the book at the end. >> of course it's going to go viral. >> oh, my god. >> you will never see someone catch a bird with their hand like that and a reaction to understated and bad ass. it's like once not in a lifetime, in an earth time. it will not happen again. >> the clip flies up and copies of "the real win" fly off the
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bookshelves. >> people will talk up and say you're the quail guy or the bird man. >> book sales and internet fame asi aside, the video has done something more special. >> i already thought highly of my dad. he's my pastor, my football coach, now his video has gone viral i think even more highly of him. >> now, let's deeper into the wide. online viewers bear witness to a video that leaves them pawing for answers. >> starts out with a guy who has left his go pro out on a river. >> a go pro camera shoots high definition videos. it's really compact in size and it makes it portable and also concealable. >> this one bear approaches the camera and all of a sudden the go pro is just in his mouth. >> you get a very close-up view
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of what you would experience if you were being eaten alive by a bear. >> what we learn is a grizzlies' mouth is disgusting. it's gross. >> eventually the grizzly loses interest and looks for another snack. are we witnessing a real wildlife moment or is this not your average bear? >> this one definitely fake. you can tell these are people in bear suits. as someone who was raised grizzlies up to full grown for years and years, i can tell you this is a fake. >> actually the bear is real but is the situation a setup? how on earth does the go pro get the inside story on those huge chompers? >> i feel like he had to have put something on the camera. >> did he smear some salmon on it or some gravy? a side of beef? >> incredibly no bait is used. the video simply captures a bear who is ready for his close-up. >> we know what grizzly bears
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favorite food is, expensive electronics. >> the grizzly man who scores the once in a lifetime shot is naturalist guide brad josephs. >> i guide photographers and film crews to see, view, photograph, and film bears. >> for more than a decade brad has conducted those tours on the alaskan peninsula. >> they come together in great number because of the food source. it's definitely the best place that you can go to see bears up close. >> and that's a rare sight these days. poaching and habitat loss among other issues have put the majestic grizzly bear on the endangered spe cease list. >> on the alaskan peninsula very haven't been hunted and it's very remote. we can see bears up close. you just can't do that anywhere else. >> in the spring of 2013, brad is loeading a tour of photographers when he decides to set up his go pro camera. >> i knew a stretch of bear trail that intersects the river. it's a great spot for the bears to leap in and try to get a
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fish. i placed the go pro camera on a rocky area. i didn't want the wear to see the camera. i wanted to get its natural behavior. >> brad moves 50 yards away to keep a safe distance. he soon gets more than he bargained for. >> the mother frames herself just perfectly and turns around and looks over and sure enough the cub comes and follows her. the cub is curious just checking everything out. so the cub looks straight down and then the bear decided to taste it and chew on it a little bit. my heart kind of sarng because i thought, we just last another go pro. >> after a serious tongue bath, the cub moves on. >> i picked it up and it was still recording. i couldn't believe it when i saw it and i have seen every piece of bear footage after film approximated. >> brad hopes others find it special, too, and uploads the video to his youtube page with the intriguing title a grizzly
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ate my go pro. >> a cchy title generally helps. so a grizzly bear ate my go pro caught people's attention. >> including the attention of skeptics who can't bare the fact that the video is legit. many are convinced brad lured the cub to his viral debut. >> one of the reactions i often get when people view this is wow, what did you put, honey on the camera or something? of course i didn't. first of all that's illegal. if you give a bear a food reward, they can become very dangerous. >> a grizzly ate my go pro becomes wildly successful gaining millions of hits. >> i think it went viral because it was kind of fun to see the inside of a bear's mouth. i don't know who can say they've gotten that close and lived to tell the tale. >> i just hope it grabbed people's attention enough for them to kind of say, you know, bears are really neat animal. we need to protect them to keep them around. >> coming up -- >> watermelon in 30 seconds or
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watermelon in 30 seconds or less. >> a man purporting to be the fruit ninja slices and dices his way to viral stardom. but how fast can you possibly cut up a watermelon? >> it starts off with a guy claiming eats going chop a watermelon in record speed and his friend is taping him. >> this is the mack joan cut a watermelon in 20 seconds challenge. >> it's hot, it's summer. people want their watermelon now. >> he's kind of in this almost zen state of concentration where it's like he's got it. he has the power of the watermelon. >> you're at ten seconds. >> i was just imagining his fingers getting chopped off. >> you cut it in 20 seconds but you also cost a few fingers. >> 21 seconds.
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>> that seems like a machine can do that job better than a human until we met this guy. and it's pretty clear that no machine has these skills. >> but it's that machine-like prescision that leads many to wonder if the human cuisinart is not exactly what he seems. >> i can see why people think it took him 40 seconds and they sped it up. >> i think we're used to a suspension ever disbelief around food preparation a little bit more than other types of videos. we understand that when someone puts in the cake pan and they pull out the cake, there's a premade cake in that oven. >> others think the melon man's skills are pure talent. >> i had no doubt whatsoever about this man. i saw a hero from the get-go, and honestly if it were fake, i would be devastated. so don't you dare tell me it's fake. >> well, let's just cut to the chase. >> i'm matt jones and my video of me cutting a watermelon in 21 seconds is absolutely real.
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>> matt and his buddy kurt emerson work in the produce department of a a grocery store in orlando, florida. to make the time pass and have a little fun while making fruit salads in bulk, they krecreate friendly competition sauld a case race. >> a case race is where you take an entire case of fruit be it cantaloupe, pineapple, strawberries and you try to cut that case as fast as you can. >> he's got his cutting booshd and knife and i have my cutting board and knife. count of three we both start going and the last one to finish loses obviously. the winner gets absolutely nothing. so it's just fun. >> i have gotten so close to beating matt but he always finds a way to beat me even if i'm ahead. >> once you have done it thousands of times, it becomes like clockwork. it's just second hand nature. >> thousands of times and matt still has all ten fingers? >> i have not had any accidents at work cutting fruit but i have had an zeaccident outside of wo
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at a party cutting fruit. >> word gets out. >> i told my friends you should see i can cut a watermelon in less than 30 seconds and they kind of didn't believe me. so one day at work i told kurt, take my phone and just film we doing one of these real fast. >> usual at ten seconds. >> and i said, sure, i'd love to see you fail on camera. >> 21 seconds. >> oh. >> it was originally intended just to show friends and family when i got home. >> his friends saw it thought it was awesome so we put it on youtube. overnight it blew up. it had 5 million hits in a few days. >> over 5 million views on this thing. 30-second video. that would be 2.5 million minutes of human time watching this guy cut a watermelon. >> you're at ten seconds. >> many accept the 21 second challenge as fact, but think they can beat the time. >> this is first attempt at a
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speedy watermelon cutting. >> soon no watermelon is safe. >> general principle of one upmanship is kind of the engine of the internet culture. that's impressive but i can kind of do it better. >> go! >> one, two, three, four, five -- >> i kept going watch out for your fingers, watch out for your fingers. >> this is already going pretty bad. >> it kind of made matt's video look better. >> this is how to cut a watermelon in like three hours. >> so far nobody has really beaten it. as far as i know 21 seconds is the quickest youtube has to offer right now. >> well, we here at "caught on camera" aren't satisfied with that. not only do we want to see this feat of human achievement with our own eyes, we want matt to shatter his own youtube record. >> safety and sanitary first. >> ready and go?
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>> 19.9. a new record. >> that's a "caught on camera" exclusive. 19.9 seconds beating my old record. >> coming up -- >> thanks for coming out to the no underwear subway ride. >> do these commuters really bare it all? >> people barely like to put their hands on a subway pole let alone their naked butt cheek on a subway seat. >> when "caught on camera: viral videos" continues. compared to the alternatives. push! i am pushing! sfx: pants ripping
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egypt, airport security in many cities will need to be overhauled. the secretary says that rethinking security in area where is isis is active may mean additional costs and delays. the death toll from a romanian nightclub fire has grown to 45. the band's two guitarists and drummer died in that blaze. now back to "caught on camera." on the new york city subway, you never know what's going to happen next. >> it's a nice tube where crazy people can get from one place to another. >> but is this video too crazy even for the big apple? >> thanks everybody for coming out to the no underwear subway ride. >> it begins with a man telling everyone we're about to do our annual no underpants day subway ride. i want you all to be on your best behavior. >> the train gets crowded, make sure you don't rub your genitals right up next to somebody else.
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it's not illegal to be completely naked in the new york city subway system as far as we know. >> and i'm thinking, yeah, it is. yes, you cannot have your stuff out in the open on the subway. >> everybody ready to take their underwear off? >> and then all of a sudden they start stripping down, and everyone is just walking around with their underpants off. >> my favorite moment is where two guys take their pants off and one guy gets up and leaves the seat. lake there's no way he's going to sit and be right in front of that business. >> best is the guy reading the paper backboback book. >> i was a little unsure whether it was real or not. it's the new york city subway. this just happens here. >> you know, some people call that thursday on the "l" train line. >> you see very genuine reactions of disgust or discomfort from other riders could you would think maybe this is really. >> i thought it had to be a fake because if it was real it would have been shot cloverfield style
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with people running away. >> i can't imagine all of these people actually agreeing to take off their underwear. people barely like to put their hands on a subway pole. >> we're ready to bare it all. thankfully the no underpants subway ride is totally phony. the bottomless commute is the brainchild of the jokesters at improv everywhere. >> it's a prank collective. we cause scenes of ska i don't say and joy in public spaces. >> it includes 200 participants freezing in place at grand central station as well as a scheme where members stage an impromp tu lunchtime musical. ♪ we all love lunch >> improv members everywhere are no strangers to viral videos. their youtube page has more than 1.6 million subscribers and hundreds of millions of views. >> it's really a great platform for us to share what we do and have other people enjoy it, too.
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>> one of the comedy crew's most popular stunts is their annual no pants subway ride. >> it started back in 2002. it's the middle of winter. you've got guys in winter coats, winter hats, scarfs, gloves, but, of course, no pants. >> and it's grown exponentially every year. >> it's even gone international with participants posting videos for the whole world to see. >> so almost everywhere where there's a subway system on a certain sunday in january, you will find people riding the train in their underwear. >> in 2010 the pranksters want to take their no pants tradition one step further. >> every year we do an april fool's day prank to sort of celebrate our fans. >> i got the idea to do a no underwear subway ride. make it seem like we had taken our no pants subway ride to the next level. >> we had a good group of volunteers that were willing and accepting of the idea of
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appearing to not have any underwear on in the subway. everybody was required to bring their own flesh colored underwear. >> that enabled us to blur the footage after the fact. making it seem like people were riding the train completely naked. >> charlie and company know it takes a lot to shock new yorkers so they take steps to make sure they get the reactions they want. >> i had some actors in on it so they would give more over the top reactions to fit with how you might actually react. >> if you look closely, you can actually see this disgusted commuter without undies moments later. but not all the strap hangers are plants. >> i'd say maybe 40% of the reactions in the video are actually just regular riders who, you know, we filmed with a hidden camera. >> one of my favorite reactions is where one of our performers is sort of leaning over a subway map. her reaction is so hilarious. just laughing. i love it. >> on april fool's day with all
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of the blurs in place, the video goes live. the train riders in the raw collects more than 6 million views. >> how could this not go viral? there's a little fascination with the stuff down there and people want to see it. not mine specifically, but other people's. >> there's a big debate over whether it was real or not. >> a lot of people were fooled and thought this was crossing the line even for us. >> i had a couple relatives who were upset who believed it and thought, you know, i like charlie's videos, but i think he's gone too far. >> 24 hours after launching the clip, improv everywhere members fess up. >> we released the uncensored no underwear subway right. of course, the sun uncensored is just people wearing skin colored boxers. >> anyone who believed there was a no underwear subway ride and went to watch the uncensored and didn't see a bunch of genitals would be very upset.
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i know i would be. i go on the internet for one thing, jen talgenitals, and whe they're not there, i'm furious. >> not surprisingly, curious people pushed the uncensored version past the original. >> it probably continues to get views just due to search terms. >> so after no pants and no underwear, what else can we expect from improve everywhere? >> i don't know if there's something you could do to sort of top that. i feel like once you reach taking your pants off, there's really nowhere to go from there. >> coming up, there's an app for just about everything these days. but what about this? >> this one really sturched me because it looks so real. but then your mind starts going how did they do that? >> when "caught on camera: viral videos true or false" continues. i think my boys have a shot this year. yeah, especially with this new offense we're running... i mean, our running back is a beast.
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smartphones seem to be able to do almost anything these days, but can they do this? >> there is a display of 10,000 iphone 5s just lined up in a domino setup. >> it's working! >> they make an elaborate curlicue pattern. >> elevator goes up and then it keeps going onto the next floor. >> which brought the trick up just a notch. it wasn't just one floor. it was two floors now. >> and then it finally resolve this is this big mural of iphones. >> is this the real domino effect or a domino special
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effect? >> it was too perfectly timed. like suspiciously perfect. >> this one really sturched me because it looks so real and it's so precise and then your mind starts going how did they do that? >> it's so many iphones. that's more iphones than there are in the world i'm pretty sure. >> fake, that's my impression of everyone on youtube, fake. >> we hear you loud and clear. the video of the tumbling iphones is completely false. the dom ni display comes from the creative minds at atma studio in san francisco. >> i produce visual effects animation and viral videos and other digital content. >> that content includes concept videos for the latest apple products. >> we like to visualize what we want to see in the next iphone as opposed to what's rumored. a lot of times or concepts are a little too farfetched. >> this if you tovideo grabs mo
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than 68 million hits. they think we made this iphone. we get a town of e-mails all over the world, sheikhs in dubai saying money is not an issue. >> in march 2013 the team brainstorms a new video. their goal is to publicize their company and showcase nearfield communication. >> fantasy technology is the idea of one device passing information to another through a physical connection. the idea of dominos was a great way to show that. >> but the designers don't have 10,000 iphones to spare. in fact, there's only one real phone if tn the entire video. can you spot it? >> there was just one iphone right at the beginning of the video so there's something tactile for the person to touch. >> the other 9,999 iphones are
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made using computer generated animation. >> we add in ourc g elements. >> these markers were intentional. we can create a path of where we want the dominos to travel. we populated the entire shot with proxy geometry representations of what an iphone would look like and at a later stage we can take those cubes and replace them with higher resolution iphone gee yom t -- geometrgeometry. >> we add in thec gi to make sure the lighting is matching correctly. we sell the fact that the iphones are here and de-emphasizing the background. >> for the big finale of the video we set a camera up very high and very wide and we see the wave of crashing i-phones. once they have all settled and we have basically a 10, 20 foot
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screen we're now able to display whatever content we wanted to. >> the 80-second video takes more than 1300 hours to produce. all of that hard work pays off. on april 17th, 2013, they release the video online and it soon reaches more than 7.5 views. hopes topple when people who believe the video is real find out the truth. >> the most common comment or e-mails that we get is can i have one iphone out of the 10,000? there's others where people are bashing us because they think we've spent a lot of money and trashing these i-cell phone. we send them be a e-mail saying this is not real. no iphones were harmed again in the making of this video. >> i think it's a win/win for this company. if they had managed to make it real iphone falling, it would be incredible. the fact they made it with cgi makes it that much more incredible. they win either way. >> coming up, forgetting your
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hi -- >> okay, kids or anyone for that matter, do not try this at home. >> two adorable little boys come out with a trampoline, put it in the middle of the street which seems like a not good decision. caused this chain reaction of chaos basically. >> you know, sometimes you go to a fancy restaurant, when they bring the bill, they bring you a piece of candy. that's what the car crash is. there's this little, like, treat at the end. >> can kids this cute really be
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this naughty? >> i could picture two boys being bored, their mom says, "go play out," they decide to take a trampoline and, you know, try and jump over cars. >> i think it was fake because i doubt a car would continue driving when they see a little kid on a trampoline getting ready to jump over it. >> well, it does seem like one of those stupid things kids might try. as kids, we don't really think about the consequences of what we're doing. >> well, we've got the little scamps here to give us the truth. >> hi, i'm richard. >> i'm smith. and that video of fake. >> the 14-year-old and his 15-year-old cousin may look familiar, it's because this isn't the first time they've tried to fake us out. the tablecloth trick gone wrong is a viral ad created for the gop vaudeville theater in germany. >> you could compare to surk you do soleil -- to cirque du soleil
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in america. >> it's an internet juggernaut gaining more than 20 million hits. the video's directors, norman krueger and dominic yunker, brainstorm another misadventure for the daring duo. >> had to be more extreme. had to be bigger. and so i thought about this -- this car crash. >> before they create the big smash, the guys add legitimacy by filming a series of other trampoline stunts. >> jumping over a dog. jumping into a swimming pool. jumping over a cow. >> everything up to the car is real. >> like the long con. if the first three or four videos seem very real and are real, you have to believe that the last one is real, too. >> for the grand finale, the directors lock down the camera and shoot three different actions. >> we set the camera and then
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you don't move it the whole day because you make different shots and you can combine them in the post production. >> first up is michel jumping on and off the car. instead of a vehicle, he leaps on to garbage cans which are approximately the same height. palettes are added on top for more traction. >> next up, the guys shoot the first car screeching to a halt. >> it took five, six times before we have the car in the right position. >> the driver exits the vehicle. the crew leaves it in place and then sets up for the climactic crash. >> we only had one try because then the car was crashed. i said, norman, you have to drive much faster than you think you should because we have only this one shot.
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and so it was 20 kilometers per hour into the car. it was everything i wanted. >> with filming complete, norman and dominic start editing. they layer the three shots on top of each other. isolating michel and removing the garbage conditions using a process called compositing. the guys launch the clip and people jump at the chance to watch their latest exploit. >> people just want to share the mess unfolding. you know good can't come from jumping on a trampoline on to a car, and then of course it doesn't. >> internet detectives scour the video for clues to fakery and catch a mistake. can you spot it the? >> look at the shadow of the car. in the moment of the crash, it doesn't move.
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no! no! how could we be so blind? >> mistake aside, the trampoline trick just add to the internet legend of michel and sven. it looks like that legend will live on. from crafty kids to a spacey spouse. let's face it, when you just had surgery, you probably don't want to be trending on the internet. >> oh, my -- ow! >> this is this genre on line of people coming out of anesthesia, and the strange things that can happen. >> it's one thing to act loopy, but is it possible to have absolutely no memory of your spouse? >> my name's candace. i'm your wife. >> you're my wife? >> yeah. >> holy [ bleep ]. [ laughter ] >> this guy has just woken up from surgery. he's really hazy and groggy. >> he's apparently talking to his wife.
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>> all of a sudden, he's gushing over this lady. >> man, you are eye candy. whoa. you are the prettiest woman i've ever seen! are you a model? how long have we been married? >> a long time. >> oh, my god. i hit the jackpot. >> this is the most frustrating video in the world. because she never flips the camera around. >> whoa. your teeth are perfect. >> i want to see the jackpot. >> turn around -- >> no. >> a good thing he was saying how beautiful she was instead of like -- oh, man, you're my wife? this is what i settled for? >> did i get you that ring? >> uh-huh. >> man, i must have been really liking you. >> the hazy husband goes viral
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and make wives swoon around the world. >> i think this probably went viral because it's the opposite of most things you see online which are cynical and awful and being mean. >> man, have we kissed yet? >> it was just an adorable video that people just wanted to share because it made them feel good. >> but is it too good to be true? >> a lot of people were debating is this real, is this fake. and trying to gauge whether this could actually happen. >> how could he not remember who his wife was. he didn't fall off a horse and all of a sudden forget who everyone was. >> do we call each other baby? >> my first impression was that this was real. he really does look like a guy coming out of anesthesia. it just seems like a very genuine moment. >> well, it seems genuine because it is. >> you just can't fake being that high. the best actor in the world -- daniel day lewis could not fake being that high. >> we get to meet the prettiest girl in the world when jason
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mortenson and his wife candace stopped by the "today" show. >> how is it that you were videotaping that moment? >> he had been acting like that for about 20 minutes before i pulled out my phone. so i finally realized, i ned to get this on video. so he can see how he acts. >> jason, do you remember any of this as you watch it? >> no. and-surgeries previously, and i -- and i've had surgeries previously, and i guess i've been a weirdo during all of them. thank goodness she had the sense to pull out a camera this time. >> there have people who have questioned the authenticity of this. but we talked to your surgeon yesterday. he said while it's unusual, he said some people can have this reaction. what do you make of all the reaction, the skeptics out there? >> he genuinely didn't remember a thing about that when i showed him the video. >> this guy scored major brownie points with his wife and major brownie points with women all over the world. >> oh, my god. i hit the jackpot. >> this is a great guy. she actually hit the jackpot, too.
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