Daicon III and IV Opening Animations
The Daicon III and IV Opening Animations are two short, anime, 8 mm films that were produced for the 1981 Daicon III and 1983 Daicon IV Nihon SF Taikai conventions.
They were produced by a group of amateur animators known as Daicon Film, who would later go on to form the animation studio Gainax.
The films are known for their unusually high production values for amateur works and for including numerous references to otaku culture, as well as its unauthorized appropriations of both the Playboy Bunny costume and the 1981 song" Twilight" by the English rock band ELO.
" Daicon III" was made by Hideaki Anno, Hiroyuki Yamaga and Takami Akai and" Daicon IV" credits twelve people, including Yamaga as the director and Anno and Akai as animation supervisors.
Despite the questionable legal status of the works, the production of" Daicon III" resulted in debts that were repaid by selling video tapes and 8 mm reels of the production, the profits of which went to the production of" Daicon IV".
In 2001, the anime magazine" Animage" ranked the" Daicon" animations as the 35th of the" Top 100" anime of all time.
The Stranger (1984 film)
The Stranger is a South Korean film.
The Muppets Go to the Movies
The Muppets Go To The Movies( or The Muffets Go To The Movies as misspelled by Fozzie Bear) is a 1981 one- hour television special that aired on ABC.
It was used to help promote" The Great Muppet Caper".
The Return of Clint the Stranger
The Return of Clint the Stranger( aka There's a Noose Waiting for You Trinity!) is a 1972 Italian- Spanish Western film directed by Alfonso Balcázar and starring Klaus Kinski.
The film is a sequel to" Clint the Stranger".
Royal Space Force: The Wings of Honnêamise
Royal Space Force: The Wings of Honnêamise( Japanese: 王立宇宙軍~オネアミスの 翼
Hepburn: Ōritsu Uchūgun: Oneamisu no Tsubasa) is a 1987 Japanese animated science fiction film written and directed by Hiroyuki Yamaga and co-produced by Toshio Okada.
Ryuichi Sakamoto, later to share the Academy Award for the soundtrack to" The Last Emperor", served as music director.
The film's story takes place on an alternate world where a disengaged young man, Shirotsugh, inspired by an idealistic woman named Riquinni, volunteers to become the first astronaut, a decision that draws them into both public and personal conflict.
The film was the debut work of anime studio Gainax, whose later television and movie series" Neon Genesis Evangelion" would achieve international recognition, and was the first anime produced by toy and game manufacturer Bandai, eventually to become one of Japan's top anime video companies.
Yamaga and Okada had become known through making amateur fan- oriented short films, particularly the" Daicon III and IV Opening Animations", but their pitch for" Royal Space Force" argued that growing the anime industry required a shift away from works that pleased fans on a surface level but reinforced their isolation, advocating instead for a different type of anime that attempted to engage with fans as human beings who shared in the alienation issues of a larger society.
The making of" Royal Space Force" involved a collaborative year- long design process using many creators, including some from outside the anime industry, to construct an elaborately detailed alternate world described as neither escapist nor dystopian, but" an attempt to approve existence."
" Royal Space Force" ’s collective approach to filmmaking, its deliberate rejection of established anime motifs, its visual complexity, and the general lack of professional experience among its staff were all factors in its chaotic production, while increasing uncertainty about the project led to what has been described as an attempt by its investors and producers to" fix" the film before release, imposing a late name change to" The Wings of Honnêamise," and a lavish but deceptive publicity campaign that included misleading advertising and a staged Hollywood premiere.
Although receiving a generally good reception among domestic anime fans and the industry upon its original 1987 Japanese release, including praise from Hayao Miyazaki, the film failed to make back its costs at the box office, but eventually became profitable through home video sales.
" Royal Space Force" did not receive an English- language commercial release until 1994, when Bandai licensed the film to Manga Entertainment.
A dubbed 35 mm version toured theaters in North America and the United Kingdom, during which time it received coverage in major newspapers but highly mixed reviews.
Since the mid-1990s, it has received several English- language home video releases, and various historical surveys of anime have regarded the film more positively; the director has stated his belief in retrospect that the elements which made" Royal Space Force" unsuccessful made possible the later successes of Studio Gainax.
The Stranger (1984 film)
The Stranger is a South Korean film.
Polly of the Movies
Polly of the Movies is a 1927 American silent comedy film directed by Scott Pembroke and starring Jason Robards, Gertrude Short and Corliss Palmer.
It is loosely based on Harry Leon Wilson's 1922 novel" Merton of the Movies" and its various film adaptations.
The Gambler Wore a Gun
The Gambler Wore a Gun is a 1961 Western film.
The film is an uncredited remake of about five different B-westerns of the 1930s and 1940s.
Some plot elements are also taken from 1954 western" The Lone Gun", which starred George Montgomery.
The Stranger Wore a Gun
The Stranger Wore a Gun is a 1953 Technicolor Western film directed by Andre DeToth and starring Randolph Scott and Claire Trevor.
Based on the short story" Yankee Gold" by John W. Cunningham, the film is about a former spy who moves to Arizona to join a gold robbery, but reconsiders and decides to change his life.
The film is one of the first 3- D western movies; it earned an estimated$ 1.6 million at the North American box office in 1953.
The supporting cast features Joan Weldon, George Macready, Alfonso Bedoya, Lee Marvin and Ernest Borgnine.
The Stranger (video series)
The Stranger is a series of direct- to- video( and audio CD) science- fiction dramas produced by BBV and starring Colin Baker.
They are now available on DVD.
The series began in 1991 with" Summoned by Shadows", co-produced with the BBC Film Club as a knowing homage to the long- running British science fiction television series" Doctor Who"( of which BBV founder Bill Baggs was a fan) and in a pragmatic attempt to take advantage of the consequent pre-existing audience.
" Summoned by Shadows" is a" Who"- style tale of strange doings in an unspecified time period on Earth featuring three actors known for their roles in" Doctor Who" and playing similar characters.
The unnamed protagonist( listed in the credits as" The Stranger") is played by Colin Baker, his assistant Miss Brown by Nicola Bryant, who had played the Doctor's assistant Peri Brown opposite Colin Baker for two years, and the villain of the piece by Michael Wisher, who had been the first actor to play Davros.
The second story," More than a Messiah", adapted the" Doctor Who" Audio Visuals story of the same name, but with the Stranger and Miss Brown substituted for the Doctor and companion Ria( who was modelled after Peri).
In a further connection, it co-starred Sophie Aldred, better known as Ace from" Doctor Who", and Peter Miles, who had co-starred( opposite Wisher) in the TV serial" Genesis of the Daleks" – both in completely different roles.
" In Memory Alone", the third film, found the Stranger and Miss Brown stranded without their mysterious transport( never seen) in a desolate train station with amnesia, and battling a robot and a mysterious man played by Nicholas Briggs( who also wrote the film along with others in the" Stranger" series).
Most releases of this film( including VHS) include a behind- the- scenes featurette and a blooper reel.
While the first three may be( and often were) taken as" Doctor Who" by another name, the departure of the Miss Brown character( for which Nicola Bryant does not speak with Peri Brown's American accent) and the Stranger himself being likewise" returned to his proper time and place" at the story's conclusion allowed for a move to clarify" The Stranger"'s status as separate work of fiction and developed an identity of its own.
The adventures of the Stranger ran in all to six videos( and four audio dramas, although the second audio drama was much the same as the sixth video).

Question: Are the movies Daicon Iii And Iv Opening Animations and The Stranger Wore A Gun, from the same country?
Answer: no