A scratch video is a video that is made up of existing footage, edited and mixed together to get a point across, without actually filming any new footage. Scratch video is now also known as 'mash-up', whcih comes from the style of the videos literally being a mash up of footage.
A very well known source of scratch videos is The Duvet Brothers.
The Duvet Brothers are made up of two people, name Rik and Peter.
Rik&Peter have made many scratch videos together, ranging from their 'Colourbox' in 1984 to their 'Strickley Tirgalig' in 1986. These two videos are very similar, but also very different at the same time. They are similar in the way that they are both scratch videos, and they use rather similar footage, and both follow the music video theme. However, Colourbox is a single screen, regular music/scratch video, whereas Strickley Trigalig is a multi screen video, which makes it totally different aesthetically.
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