We Didn't Start The Fire

We Didn't Start The Fire is a multifandom vid depicting fifty years of fannish history from 1960 to 2010. It first premiered at Vividcon 2012 and then uploaded to Dreamwidth in August of the same year. Four years later, in April 2016, it was cross-posted to Archive of Our Own.
The vid is a collaboration between Dreamwidth users, fiercynn and Scribe. Though development for the vid began in 2008, the vid was not completed until four years later in 2012. The vid is an amalgamation of fandom activity throughout a span of fifty years. Footage from popular film and TV franchises are included, combined with footage of fan activities. 
==Vidder's notes==
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==Footage and featured fandoms==
===Fandom sources===
* 21 Jump Street
* 3rd Rock from the Sun
* The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Granada)
* Alien Nation
* American Idol
* Anderson Cooper 360
* Angel
* Another Country
* Babylon 5
* Back to the Future
* Band of Brothers
* Batman
* Battlestar Galactica (1978)
* Battlestar Galactica (2004)
* BBC Pride & Prejudice (1995)
* The Beatles
* Beauty and the Beast
* Being Human (UK)
* Bend It Like Beckham
* Blade Runner
* Blake's 7
* Bones
* Brokeback Mountain
* Buffy the Vampire Slayer
* Castle
* The Colbert Report
* Community
* The Daily Show
* Dark Shadows
* Dexter
* Doctor Who
* Doctor Who (2005)
* due South
* The Empire Strikes Back
* Fall Out Boy
* Farscape
* Firefly
* Forever Knight
* Friends
* Fringe
* Glee
* The Goonies
* Grey's Anatomy
* Hard Core Logo
* Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
* Hawaii Five-O
* Hercules: The Legendary Journeys
* Heroes
* High School Musical 2
* Highlander
* The History Boys
* Homicide: Life on the Streets
* Horatio Hornblower
* House M.D.
* How I Met Your Mother
* Inception
* Raiders of the Lost Ark
* Octopussy
* The Spy Who Loved Me
* Jeeves and Wooster
* Kiss of the Spider Woman
* The L Word
* Labyrinth
* Led Zeppelin
* Legend of the Seeker
* Leverage
* Life on Mars
* The Lord of the Rings behind the scenes
* Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
* The Lost Boys
* Lost
* M*A*S*H
* The Magnificent Seven
* The Man From U.N.C.L.E.
* Merlin
* Miami Vice
* The Middleman
* Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers
* Monty Python's Flying Circus
* My Chemical Romance
* Newsies
* NSYNC/popslash
* Om Shanti Om
* One Piece
* The Outsiders
* Oz
* Panic! at the Disco
* Persepolis
* Pirates of the Caribbean
* The Princess Bride
* Prison Break
* The Professionals
* Quantum Leap
* Queer as Folk (UK)
* Queer as Folk (US)
* The Rachel Maddow Show
* Raffles, Yes Minister
* The Real Ghostbusters
* Red Dwarf
* Remington Steele
* RENT
* Robin Hood
* Robin of Sherwood
* The Rocky Horror Picture Show
* The Sandbaggers
* The Sentinel
* Sherlock Holmes (2009)
* Sherlock
* The Simpsons
* Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes (1968)
* Sleeper Cell
* Slings & Arrows
* Smallville
* Sports Night
* Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
* Star Trek: Deep Space 9
* Star Trek: The Next Generation
* Star Trek: The Original Series
* Star Trek: Voyager
* Star Wars: A New Hope
* Stargate SG-1
* Stargate: Atlantis
* Starsky and Hutch
* Supernatural
* Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
* Terminator
* This Is Spinal Tap
* Top Gear
* Torchwood
* Troy
* Twin Peaks
* The Vampire Diaries
* Veronica Mars
* The West Wing
* White Collar
* Wiseguy
* Wiseguy
* The X-Files
* Xena: Warrior Princess
* Young Sherlock Holmes
===Additional Footage===
* A Very Potter Musical, by StarKidProductions
* Blood Drips on Newsies Square, directed by Michael A. Goorjian 
* Harry and the Potters concert footage by filmapino
* Ianto Memorial Footage by such_heights
* Star Wars: Revelations, directed by Shane Felux
* The Death and Return of Superman, produced by Max Landis
* Us, by lim
* Wonder Woman: Balance of Power, Red Cape Cinema
* Yellow Face: the Avatar racebending documentary
* Star Trek by the Girls on Film
==Comments & Reception==
===2012===
===2013===
===2014===
===2015===
===2016===
 
===2017===
==Further reading==
* Incredible Fanvid Compresses Decades of Fandom Into 5 Minutes, Article by Tor, Webcite
==References==
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