History Main / Retraux

* WoodyAllen's ''Zelig'' is a Mockumentary about a "chameleon man" of the 1920s. The supposedly archived footage of the era was actually filmed using cameras and such of the period. This, in addition to ''ForrestGump'' style editing (though this movie predated that one by over ten years), created a nearly impenetrable illusion.

* The ADVFilms trailer for ''ChronoCrusade'' has narration mimicking the style of voice-over used on old-fashioned newsreels. (However, the anime itself doesn't use many {{Retraux}} affects outside of a few scenes in the opening and the grainy episode title cards and eyecatches.)

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* The video for Q-Tip's [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnpy7PEfWxo "Move"]] appears to be shot on VHS... right down to VCR blue-screen and on-screen displays at the beginning.

** Stone Temple Pilots' [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=494HNSbRWyw "Big Bang Baby"]], which was not only shot on video but even uses 1980s-era video effects.

* It's not unknown for a flashback or 'never before told' story to be drawn in the style of a certain time period. An excellent example is ''The Age of the Sentry'' miniseries, whose titular hero was supposedly Marvel's {{Superman}}{{Expy}} in the 1960s, but was forgotten by all of humanity until his "return" in 2000. The flashback scenes are drawn to resemble 1960s JackKirby and 1980s FrankMiller. The front cover even has a fake "Approved by the [[ComicsCode Cosmic Code]] Authority" logo.

** In addition to the ad campaign, the movie also adapted the sections of the comic's selections of [[ShownWithinAShow an in-series book]] ''Under The Hood'' in the form of a archived TV News report thereof.

* [[http://tinyurl.com/32q4a7q Eggy]], a game made using Game Maker, in which you take control of a sixteen-by-sixteen egg trying to defeat an apparently French chef. It's BetterThanItSounds.

** ''TrailOfTheScreamingForehead'' is an AffectionateParody of a slightly different sort of SF film - a '60s extravaganza in widescreen (Craniascope!) and vivid color.

* Larry Blamire specializes in this trope with his films:

* ''TheLostSkeletonOfCadavra'' is an AffectionateParody of the 1950s [[BMovie B movies]] filmed in black and white and complete with bad acting and SpecialEffectsFailure.

** The makers of it are currently doing Lovecraft's ''The Whisperer in Darkness'' in style of a 1950s movie.

* ''{{Good Night and Good Luck}}'': Filmed in black and white, with only ArchiveFootage of Joe [=McCarthy=] used to portray the senator, and no scene in the movie doesn't have a character without a cigarette in his or her hand (as was the case in the 1950s)

** Too many negatives! My head asplode!

* {{Halo}} [[{{Atari2600}} 2600]]. Out now in your [[http://www.codemystics.com/halo2600/ favorite web browser]].

* {{Halo}} [[{{ptitlejtlr7rsuek3r}} 2600]]. Out now in your [[http://www.codemystics.com/halo2600/ favorite web browser]].

* As Deadpool features a lot of both meta-commentary and time travel, this tends to come up in his book. The best example is when he gets set into the past to ''Amazing Spiderman'' #47, and infiltrates himself into the story, ''ForrestGump'' style. All the panels and dialogue are drawn in John Romita's style, and all the characters (except Deadpool and friends) talk like Stan Lee wrote them (indeed, enough panels are lifted from the original work that Romita and Lee are credited as co-authors.) Seeing the modern MetaGuy Deadpool interact with the comics-code Spiderman story is a CrowningMomentOfFunny.
** The issue, by the way, is ''Deadpool #11''.