What do you get when you splice Mary Poppins with some creep-tastic music? One impressively sinister movie plot:

Videos like this are the natural offspring of popular video and social networking sites; you can see mash-up spawn all over the web on YouTube and beyond. You don’t have to be a genius to make one yourself. Here are some examples and websites to whet your appetite:

1. The Trailer Mash: Users create new twists to movie spots by remixing and changing up the soundtrack. Scary Mary, above, is just one example.

2. Terminator vs. Robocop is a mash-up with some of that video annotation that Nick mentioned a few posts ago. It was created by the people at AMDS Films, but I’m guessing most of y’all don’t speak French.

3. Vader Sessions includes Star Wars clips with quotes from James Earl Jones’ various roles spliced in. It gets really good when he starts talking about being a breadwinner (3 minutes in or so).

4. Total Recut has it all — source clips, video editing tools, and contests, with categories from political to education to advertising to trailers.

5. Check out The Recycled Cinema for a history of found video footage and a more academic approach to mash-ups.

6. For the politically bent, Political Remix is a blog-style video mash-up site with some very moving and politically charged messages.

7. Jumpcut is Yahoo’s answer to the video and social networking equation. You can use it to upload source material, edit your clips, and share your remixes. Still in beta (what isn’t these days), but the is design slick, unobtrusive, and very user-friendly.

Happy Mashing.

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