Viral Video Round-Up: ABC, Spider-Man Musical, Avengers, Social Network, IMDB, and Valentine’s Day Dan Koelsch, February 14, 2011 The Internet is full of videos related to movies, whether they be fan made, studio made, or somewhere inbetween. We regularly bring you the best, most interesting, or just plain weirdest, and today we do it again. Check out the latest viral videos after the break. Vimeo user Musk Ox found some unused ABC logos in an storage room in the art department at ABC Television, so he edited a clip of them all.[via Boing Boing]Vintage ABC Television Logo Treatments from Musk Ox on Vimeo. Though we already showed you this weekend’s British Film parody, they also did a skit on the Spider-Man musical. Now that we have footage for all the individual movies leading up to The Avengers, it should be no surprise that we now have some dynamic fan trailers for the Marvel film. Case in point: This one from Yoko Higuchi, found by /Film. Amazed by how well The Social Network pulled off having the same person (Armie Hammer) play twins? Then check out this video that shows how it was done. [via Geektyrant] While exposing yet another blatant mistake by IMDB.com, /Film posted a video from KTLA that shows behind the scenes of IMDB for the first time. Since it is Valentine’s Day, we had to show you a few holiday-related videos. We have two kissing mash-up videos. First, we have television kisses, then the most disturbing film kisses. Have a viral video for us? Let us know in the comments below! Fan Made Work Viral Marketing Viral News Viral Videos ABCIMDBMash-upSNLSpider-ManThe AvengersThe Social NetworkValetine's DayViral video
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