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1. FLYING

by Sam Fuller

3 years ago

Thrown from the 31st floor in lower Manhattan

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Andrew Pile 3 years ago

Awesome!
Cyberone Tv 3 years ago

...Surely Awesome, But try to check this out:

it.youtube.com/watch?v=4oCbuzEuBdg

You'll be amazed to see the same creation 8 years before!
Mathias Røyrvik 3 years ago

So what? Even if this was a copy, the copy was so much better then the original.

The filming and quality blew your sorry YouTube flick out of the air...

Really cool video! And it sure did get some distance. I was just waiting for the person in the car or the one walking by to pick it up ^^,
Nick Douglas 3 years ago

Easy, man! I like both films. Two people had similar fantastic ideas, and both carried them out with style.

I enjoyed the vertiginous loss of perspective in this long shot, when the plane glides out in front of the faraway bridge and only a vague sense of scale reminds us that the little folded paper hasn't in fact gone over the water.
Matt Schwarz 3 years ago

That got some major distance!
Emrys Roberts 3 years ago

Man that thing went for forever.
PEIKA 3 years ago

Wow!
Benjamin Reece 3 years ago

Awesome! wow, i love the music, what music is this?What an incredible idea....I love the thought put into the slow pan out......
Sam Fuller 3 years ago

The music is "The Rendez-Vous" by Alexandre Desplat from Johnathan Glazer's film Birth.
c.lotti 3 years ago

nice...
great music too ...
Remi Noell 3 years ago

Nicely done!
Capucha 3 years ago

love it !
loonachic 3 years ago

Woah!
Karen Abad 3 years ago

*sigh*
Juztn 3 years ago

Well done sir! Even though I am a bit disappointed. I thought you were going to throw the camera..hehe
HannahMai 3 years ago

i thought so too! haha
Tyron Janse van Vuuren 3 years ago

me three. Probably be less poignant though. ;-)
Darren Ladbury 3 years ago

me four
Alex One 3 years ago

five
Kyle Delso 3 years ago

six.
Mathias Røyrvik 3 years ago

Dare I say seven?

Well I just did ^^,

Almost wondered if you were going to put a mini-camera on the airplane and throw it :P

Now that would be awesome!
Josué Karica 3 years ago

I'm # eight! I thought you attached your camera to a flying device and throw it.
Panda Claw Pictures 3 years ago

me 9.

I would love for someone to throw the camera from a distance in the air like that.
Shaun Labrecque 3 years ago

11

dare to be different
Etrap 3 years ago

ejem... #13 this will bring me bad luck? Very cool video!
Morgan Sherwood 2 years ago

fourteen, man. That rocked!

This was also featured in Radar.net's Vimeo Gallery Channel: radr.me/aC4h
sharad kalawar 2 years ago

15.

expected a camera free fall. on seeing the paper plane, started wondering about lightweight cameras that would mount the flight.

great skill behind that paper though.
Robin Asselmeyer 1 year ago

hahaahaha 16 :P
Great stuff, the discription sort of lied ;)
Chris Arndt 1 year ago

17. much better though!
Ben Millett 3 years ago

Awesome.
Sergey Zeinalov 3 years ago

CooL!
Remy Disch 3 years ago

beautifull
Mark Jacinto 3 years ago

Pretty sweet. I thought the camera was gonna be thrown as well. The Birth soundtrack is one of my all time faves.
Luc Shelton 3 years ago

For a second there I thought you were going to attach a camera to it and then throw it out.

Regardless, that was really quite cool considering how simple the concept was. Totally loved it.
Josh Jenkins 3 years ago

If they had done that, I would've been a lot more afraid, in a thrilled kind of way.
Paul 3 years ago

Fantastic! really nice idea, super music as well! that made me smile!! 10 out of 10
Michael Fletcher 3 years ago

That's a $ 500 fine for littering. Ha Ha!!!! Why dont you do a where's Matt and throw them from tall buildings all around the world. I was waiting to see a car run over the plane or even the person walking past pick it up. That would of been the fitting finale. Cool stuff.
David Boudreau 3 years ago

I thought it was going to just another lame video of someone throwing a paper airplane from a super tall office building but you made the mundane into a beautiful masterpiece. brilliant!
Riccardo Apuzzo 3 years ago

Hey mr Fuller, this one was posted on the net more one year ago
it.youtube.com/watch?v=4oCbuzEuBdg
ahhh.....................
you know who's the woman at the end?
AdamPellinDeeve 3 years ago

Thanks for that link Riccardo. It's fascinating the way the same idea can develop independently. Both great videos.
Video Head 3 years ago

You followed it so well, never lost sight of the plane.

I can hear my mother now - 'you could of blinded someone if it hit them in the eye!'
Frunobulax 3 years ago

Brings back memories. Still remember tearing up the yellow pages at the old Hotel Holland on 42nd back in 1981. One plane made back by the window ten minutes after I threw it out.
Greg Oppman 3 years ago

That made my day for sure!!
androoow 3 years ago

woah ,, thats seriously dangerous.. you could have taken someones eye out with that!!! :) nice plane. i felt sorry for it though, although it had a good flight.
mistyflip32 3 years ago

try that with a baseball
Tiago Coimbra 2 years ago

with a baseball bat!!
Ryan Kelly 3 years ago

Awesome
Dave Reed 3 years ago

That was a wonderful little journey WE just embarked on. haha thank you. :)
Harley 3 years ago

sick!
nice thinking!!
Michel-Philippe Weber 3 years ago

Can you do it with a bat-plane? users.bigpond.net.au/mechtoys/batplane.html
Nem Perez 3 years ago

This is soooooo amazing!!!!!!
Gilbert Duran 3 years ago

life.
Brett Plank 3 years ago

what was that..like 3 miles..? haha lol
Efe Aydal 3 years ago

oh u threw the plane. I thought you were gonna throw the camera.
jbeechoo 3 years ago

qué bonito!!
Alexandre DUBOSC 3 years ago

a Film with poetic atmosphere... Great ! I love it !

Thank you very much Sam !

Soon !
Júlio Taubkin 3 years ago

not only a cool throw, but you got one of the worst parallel parking attempts in history. Check that gray sedan!
Mark Rajakovic 3 years ago

Very nice! Perfect landing. Great choice of music too.
citybuddha 3 years ago

I like!
Michel-Philippe Weber 3 years ago

How do you like it that other sites have stolen your video...
bofunk.com/video/6183/paper_airplane_flies_over_new_york_city.html
videoheaven.us/videos.aspx/video~paper_plane/Paper_Plane/Other_videos/
Chrizzle 3 years ago

Regarding the first link;
Someone said it was fake?

I'm speechless.
AdamPellinDeeve 3 years ago

The plane's real but everything else is CGI.
Sanchez 3 years ago

Nice!
able parris 3 years ago

litterbug.

kidding, I love it!
Alex Itin 3 years ago

kept thinking this would end in a car accident.
Glad it didn't.
futureofthebook.org/itinplace/archives/2006/09/snow.html
Imaginemegary 3 years ago

figure out a way to throw 100 of them at out the window at once.
Alex Itin 3 years ago

Follow the above link. I always thought it would make a nice memorial no 911.
Moog 3 years ago

yay. There's something beautiful, pure and innocent about that. I loved it. Made me smile a giant smile from the moment of launch until... well... still
Maladroits Videos 3 years ago

Great!!
Feeder 3 years ago

Great!
J Meyer 3 years ago

It was okay - interesting idea. I'd like to see it expanded out a bit more. Had to be tough to follow the flight path of it as you had to zoom to maintain focus. I'd like to see one of those large styrofoam gliders go out that window rigged up with a very small camera and edit the different perspectives together...just an idea. Looking forward to future project !
Spoke & Sport 3 years ago

EPIC Paper airplane toss buddy.
RyanG 3 years ago

Fun, but the camera work made me queasy
Andy Sutton 3 years ago

Great! If you are a paper airplane, that's the ultimate dream come true!
dgfrancisco 3 years ago

jajajja cooool like American Beauty
Jan Kolarik 3 years ago

nice original idea
Natural Causes 3 years ago

That was fun to watch, gotta respect the paper airplane

Julio was correct, worst parking attempt ever...
attempt, key word

can you throw another paper plane out that window for us =)
Diamond Eye 3 years ago

fantastic
Alan 3 years ago

Love the idea and the music ;)
Pando 3 years ago

SupaFly!
Keith Loutit 3 years ago

I wish I could 'like' this twice... great work.
C7art 3 years ago

Littering... not cool.
Just kidding, the video was worth it 4 sho. Good job!
YouMyWorld productions 3 years ago

landing on the road is not the safest! ))
Jonathan Perry 3 years ago

that flew for ever and even managed to dodge the buildings. How many attempts did it take
sull 3 years ago

just watched with my 4 year old dauther who loves paper airplanes. that was some trip. very VERY cool video.
Rainer Skommodau 3 years ago

wow...
Craig Gorowsky 3 years ago

Nice job! I'll have to try it with a camera on it. Check out my zagi video vimeo.com/1152769
Bill Newsinger 3 years ago

That could have had someone's eye out :)
40 Watt Films 2 years ago

Just what I was thinking when I saw the point being folded.
Servando Barreiro 3 years ago

nice nice nice, cool piece.
Tim Collins 3 years ago

Sweet!
Christophe Bandini 3 years ago

Very nice :)
Paul Treacy 3 years ago

An entirely delicious little film. Utterly poetic.
Amenon 3 years ago

When the car shifted out of the way I thought it might take off again and fly back...
Phoric 3 years ago

Cool! You're gonna poke someone's eye out. ;)
Zach And-Chris 3 years ago

Correct me if I'm wrong, but is that a previous try near the guy in the orange shirt at 1:22?
I absolutely loved this video!
Robert-Jon Eckhardt 3 years ago

Wow, that was ace!
Straight up.
Lilly Johnsset 3 years ago

shnikes
Jesse Mainee 3 years ago

Really cool. Did you know it was going to go for that long? Whoa.
Sam Fuller 1 year ago

we did a bunch of takes - so no - we were just hoping for the best