I've heard of recycling...

[Graham1973]

...but this 2000 'straight to DVD' film takes the cake...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IUYsjKM_Uo

 

[Orionblamblam]

 

[Graham1973]

Too true, but I've not seen such gall since reading about Roger Corman recycling Soviet sci-fi footage in the 1960's

 

[Orionblamblam]

There was at least one cheapo early 80's sci-fi flick that used Battlestar Gallactica Viper vs Raider footage in some abundance. "The Shape of Things to Come," IIRC. An MST3K classic.

 

[Triton]

It actually looks more entertaining than Airport 1975.

 

[Graham1973]

It actually looks more entertaining than Airport 1975.

That's not that hard!

 

[Michel Van]

Ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
is that a first-class Asylum production ?!


spoken creative copying see what they use in Original Battlestar Galactica

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jw0sVNuBjNQ
that allot footage from from Movie Earthquake (1974)

and 1978 Argo ships look strangeiy like the Valley Forrge, the Berkshire and the Sequoia from Silent Running

the Copy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TckJBvl_uT0 the Original

 

[Sferrin]

In that episode where the BSG got to Earth I was really hoping to see one of those scrambled F-15s shoot down a Cylon Raider.

 

[pathology_doc]

IIRC Battlestar Galactica Classic was famous for the amount of its OWN footage that it recycled. Of course in those days they had no choice unless they wanted to bankrupt the network with every episode. CGI is a wonderful thing when it comes to spectacular SF effects in TV, but for film I think there's still a place for proper modelwork.


The B-grade SF film "Battle Beyond the Stars" was also extensively pirated for space battle footage, but I cannot and do not wish to remember the horrifically Z-grade kids' SF flick it was butchered for.