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== Anime and Manga ==▼
▲== Anime ==
* ''[[Martian Successor Nadesico|Gekiganger]] [[Gekiganger 3|3]]''. (More so in the actual show than in the [[OVA]].)
** Interestingly enough, according to [[Word of God]], despite its 1970s-esque appearance, it was actually made in the 2090s, which means it's an example of this even ''in-story''.
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* The 1930s style song "The Spirit of Adventure" over ''[[Up (animation)|Up]]'''s closing credits is in lo-fi monophonic sound.
* The ending credits of ''[[Winnie the Pooh|The Tigger Movie]]'' run against sepia still images of scenes from the film redrawn in the style of E.H. Shepherd's line drawings from the books. Tigger in particular looks ''completely'' different from the Disney version.
== Film - Live Action ==
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* [[Woody Allen]]'s ''[[Zelig]]'' is a Mockumentary about a "chameleon man" of the 1920s and '30s. The supposedly archived footage of the era was actually filmed using cameras and such of the period. This, in addition to ''[[Forrest Gump]]'' style editing (though this movie predated that one by over ten years), created a nearly impenetrable illusion.
* ''[[Far From Heaven]]'', set in [[The Fifties]], imitates the look of movies produced back then, specifically Douglas Sirk's movies - the plot is almost lifted from ''All That Heaven Allows''. The score is by Elmer Bernstein, who composed music for several famous films in the '50s.
* The French musical ''[[
* [[Orson Welles]] used this trope in ''[[Citizen Kane]]'' with the newsreel in the beginning, going so far as to use ''sandpaper'' on the original print to make it look old and worn.
* ''[[Mirage]]'' is a 1965 movie filmed in black and white and in the style of classic noir.
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* ''[[Watchmen (film)|Watchmen]]'' adapted the sections of the comic's selections of [[Fictional Document|an in-series book]] ''Under The Hood'' in the form of a archived TV News report thereof.
=== Magazines ===▼
* [[Time (magazine)|''Time'' magazine]] published a special Bicentennial [http://content.time.com/time/magazine/0,9263,7601760704,00.html "July 8, 1776" edition] in 1976. The entire issue is written as if ''Time'' had actually existed in 1776, with all its usual sections (with a few obvious exceptions like Film and Television.) It apparently sold well, and was followed by a "1789" edition covering the first inauguration of George Washington.▼
== [[Live
* ''[[Cold Case]]'' flashbacks are filmed to evoke the period they are from (e.g. black and white for times that predate colour film).
** In addition, the flashback sequences often feature popular music that likely ''would'' have been featured in a TV show episode from whatever year the flashback would have taken place in.
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* A ''[[Spitting Image]]'' sketch claimed to be celebrating the show's 100th aniversary, and showed a clip from the supposed first show in the 1880s. This was a black and white scene of two [[Punch and Judy]] style puppets, and silent movie captions reading "I say, [[William Gladstone|Mr Gladstone]]! You're not very good!"
* ''[[Hustle]]''. An exposition scene explaining how an old-style con worked was done in the form of a black & white silent movie.
▲== Magazines ==
▲* [[Time (magazine)|''Time'' magazine]] published a special Bicentennial [http://content.time.com/time/magazine/0,9263,7601760704,00.html "July 8, 1776" edition] in 1976. The entire issue is written as if ''Time'' had actually existed in 1776, with all its usual sections (with a few obvious exceptions like Film and Television.) It apparently sold well, and was followed by a "1789" edition covering the first inauguration of George Washington.
== Music ==
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* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loYzKVTTujs "Technicolor Dreams"] by [[The Bee Gees]]. Sounds like the 1930s, released in 2001.
=== [[Music Videos]] ===▼
▲== [[Music Videos]] ==
* Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings' [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ouI5KcyHfE "100 Days, 100 Nights"] was literally filmed using equipment that's straight from the 1960s. (The director bought two vintage TV cameras on eBay in working condition—for about $100 total.)
** The packaging for the album from which the song comes (same title) is also deliberately retro. If you have the vinyl pressing, you might well pass it off to your friends as a soul album from 1967 or so.
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* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0pM5dm--yQ&ob=av2n "Tell Her About It"] by Billy Joel features Joel singing in a [[Fake Band]] ("B. J. and the Affordables") in the style of [[The Beatles]] and other sixties groups on ''[[The Ed Sullivan Show]]''.
* The video to [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-greVjUEdc Enuff Z'Nuff's "Fly High Michelle"], released in 1989, has the feel of the 1960's psychedelia, complete with rainbows, balloons, and doves.
== [[Professional Wrestling]] ==
* The short-lived Wrestling Society X was home to Matt Classic, a wrestler who had been in a coma since the '50s, and wrestled in the same style that won him the World Heavyweight Championship in 1952—including such devastating moves as the head vice, the abdominal stretch, and the airplane spin. Matt Classic was portrayed by Colt Cabana, who was in his mid-20s at the time.
* [[WWE]] decided to do an "old school" night on ''Raw'' in November 2011. They threw up a classic looking WWF set and ramp, swapped out the barriers with old-fashioned rails, and even used a retro-styled WWE logo (though this has actually appeared on a few John Cena promotional items in the past). They even had [[Michael Cole]] dress up as an od-school [[Vince McMahon]], since Vince was on commentary duty during the era the show was representing.
== Sports ==▼
* The National Hockey League created Retraux alternate jerseys, especially among teams too new to have large amounts of history to tap into. As of the 2011-2012 season, a third of the league have jerseys in this style. The Pittsburgh Penguins are the worst offender as they have worn actual vintage jerseys from the 70s in previous years but chose to switch to a made up Retraux design for the 2011-12 season, albeit based off their original 1967 design.▼
* The [[Australian Rules Football|Australian Football League]]'s "heritage round" has teams wear old-style versions of their guernseys. Hawthorn fans seemed to particularly like their heritage strip, and there is a push for the team to change back to it permanently.▼
* The throwback jerseys worn by the NBA's Golden State Warriors and Philadelphia 76ers were such a hit with fans that the two teams changed their logos permanently.▼
* NFL teams are allowed to wear throwbacks twice a year. Of note were the Green Bay Packers late 1930s throwbacks with brown helmets to stand in for leather.▼
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
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* There's ''[http://www.forgottenfutures.com/ Forgotten Futures]'', shareware "Scientific Romance Role Playing Game" by Marcus L. Rowland—as the name says, it's designed for this sort of adventures.
== [[Theatre]] ==
* Christopher Fry's 1948 play ''The Lady's Not for Burning'' is written in the style of a Shakespearean comedy.
== [[Video Games]] ==
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* The [[Platypus Comix]] story "[http://www.platypuscomix.net/miscellaneous/index.php?issue=16&pageType=index&seriesID=7 Vess MacMeal Starring in: The More You Know!]" has drawings resembling [[The Fifties|1950s]] kitschy artwork.
== [[Web Original]] ==▼
▲== Web Original ==
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEAkChFGhVI This parody infomercial about "mastering the Internet"]. Yes, it's a modern-day spoof. It sure doesn't look that way, though. According to [http://atencio.tumblr.com/post/36634716/okay the director], it was dubbed between video recorders four times for that extra-special effect.
** Similarly, [http://www.hollywoodeasttv.com/video/its-the-world-wide-web It's The World Wide Web]
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* The 2011 ''[[Winnie the Pooh (Disney film)|Winnie the Pooh]]'' film follows the style of the original shorts fairly closely, right down to details like photocopy lines and the backgrounds.
* The short-lived ''[[Code Monkeys]]'' was an animated series done completely in the style of an 8-bit video game, with the cast resembling characters from mid-80s Taito games such as Renegade and Mat Mania.
== [[Real Life]] ==
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* The Seattle Space Needle celebrates its fiftieth anniversary in 2012. As part of the celebration, the whole thing was painted the "only in the 60's" shade of "Galaxy Gold" paint that it was during the 1962 World's Fair.
* In the 1990s, [[McDonald's]] built several drive-thru-only locations in the style of the earliest restaurants.
▲=== Sports ===
▲* The National Hockey League created Retraux alternate jerseys, especially among teams too new to have large amounts of history to tap into. As of the 2011-2012 season, a third of the league have jerseys in this style. The Pittsburgh Penguins are the worst offender as they have worn actual vintage jerseys from the 70s in previous years but chose to switch to a made up Retraux design for the 2011-12 season, albeit based off their original 1967 design.
▲* The [[Australian Rules Football|Australian Football League]]'s "heritage round" has teams wear old-style versions of their guernseys. Hawthorn fans seemed to particularly like their heritage strip, and there is a push for the team to change back to it permanently.
▲* The throwback jerseys worn by the NBA's Golden State Warriors and Philadelphia 76ers were such a hit with fans that the two teams changed their logos permanently.
▲* NFL teams are allowed to wear throwbacks twice a year. Of note were the Green Bay Packers late 1930s throwbacks with brown helmets to stand in for leather.
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