Mike Watt [Big train]
Directed by Spike Jonze
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"Big train" featured a lot of fancy toy trains crazily running in the georama set.
As Corndog.org mentions, there was a lawsuit from toy trains company. This is very rare one.
Enjoyable stuff. The whole thing has a grinning subversiveness about it. Terribly good fun, and what a spoilsport that lousy toy company was. Btw, on the same site, check out the lovely video to Watts' lo-fi cover of Daniel Johnston's "Walking the Cow." Maybe the US dairy industry would like to sue over that one. ;-)
Actually, it was not a toy train company who sued, it was Union Pacific Railroad. The original video included a train that sported UP's name,logo, and colors, thus associating UP with the events that occurred in the video. Therefore, they asked Sony to pull the video, or change it so that the video had nothing to do with Union Pacific. Sony threw a big hissy fit, went to court, and lost, the end.
