History Main / VideoFullOfFilmClips

* Cleverly played with in the Music/{{Beck}} video "Deadweight" for the film ''A Life Less Ordinary'', in which Beck walks through a series of surreal situations that reflect scenes from the film. For example, he dials a number on a phone on a beach; the video then cuts to Cameron Diaz's character picking up a phone in the movie.

* Music/MichaelJackson did a video for each of the first two ''Film/FreeWilly'' movies. "Will You Be There" wasn't written for it but exported from his album ''Music/{{Dangerous}}'', so its video just intercuts a stage performance with movie clips. "Childhood (Theme from ''Free Willy 2'')" was written for its film and averts this trope in its video, with the kids from the movie (Jason James Richter and Francis Capra) showing up to join a procession of happy children in flying boats while Jackson mournfully croons in a forest below.

* Music/{{Sia}}'s "Rainbow", from ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyTheMovie2017'', alternates between scenes from the film, including her character Songbird Serenade, and footage of dancer Maddie Ziegler, who has a habit of appearing in Sia's music videos.

** The music video for "Holiday in my Head" is full of clips from ''Film/{{Clockstoppers}}''.

* The music video for Adam Lambert's [[SillyLoveSongs generic love ballad]] "Time For Miracles" consists of the singer walking through various CGI disasters from ''2012''. It's [[NightmareRetardant exactly as hilarious as it sounds]].

* The Music/FooFighters have two, but both have storylines as well. "Breakout" is inspired by ''Film/MeMyselfAndIrene'', and is probably better than that movie (Dave Grohl and Traylor Howard - who starred in that movie - go to to a drive-in to see ''Me, Myself and Irene'', and Dave eventually suffers a SplitPersonalityTakeover like Creator/JimCarrey does in the movie).

* Music/GirlsAloud's video for their cover of Jump (For My Love) is intercut with film clips from ''Film/LoveActually'', creating the illusion that the band snuck into Downing Street and spotted Hugh Grant's character dancing.

* The Music/HarveyDanger cover of "Save It For Later" from the ''200 Cigarettes'' soundtrack featured the band interacting with characters from the film via edited footage and body doubles. For instance at one point the singer drops his glasses in a mostly empty bowl with leftover frosting in it while performing - cut to a shot of Martha Plimpton's character licking frosting off one lens of a similar pair of glasses, then another shot of the singer picking the glasses back up, licking the other lens, and putting them back on. It's just well-integrated enough that if you aren't familiar with the film it might just seem like an exceptionally cameo-filled '80s-themed music video at first.

* The music video for Jon Music/BonJovi's "Blaze of Glory" (from the ''Young Guns'' soundtrack) features clips from the film being played on an outdoor movie screen.

** "No More Lonely Nights," from his film ''Give My Regards to Broad Street''.

* A Perfect Circle's "Passive" is a mix of clips from ''Film/{{Constantine}}'' and band-playing clips- except the latter are stylized with a false-color camera to fit in with the visual style used in that scene from the movie. The song was used in the movie.

* The Proclaimers' second video for "I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)," which included clips from ''Benny & Joon''.
* The Psychedelic Furs' "Pretty In Pink": While the original video consisted of Richard Butler lip syncing inside an Alice In Wonderland-inspired house, once it became associated with the film of the same name, a second video was made featuring movie clips alternating with shots of the band miming with painted-over stills green-screened behind them, which was the director's way of putting a more artistic spin on things.

* The Music/RedHotChiliPeppers cover of "Love Roller Coaster" alternates between clips of ''WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButthead Do America'' and an animated version of the band themselves meeting Beavis and Butthead on a literal "love rollercoaster" (or at least, one shaped like a heart).

* Aside from the two in the upper folder, Music/{{Seal}} has [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXiqD1XgxiM "This Could Be Heaven"]] from ''The Family Man''.

* Music/{{Wheatus}}' "Teenage Dirtbag" was released as a single to promote the film ''Loser'' - the video mainly mixes clips from the movie with footage of the band playing in a school gym (and later on at a prom). Through re-contextualizing certain scenes and adding new footage of lead actors Jason Biggs and Mina Suvari, the video still follows the plot of the song's lyrics closer than it does that of the movie... though it's also shown to all be a dream of Jason's character.

** The video for "Radio Ga-Ga" contains numerous clips of Fritz Lang's silent film ''Film/{{Metropolis}}'', as well as brief shots from almost every clip for earlier Queen songs.

** ''Film/FiftyShadesFreed'' has Julia Michaels' "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shHTYg-rOAg Heaven]]", which features clips of Christian Grey from the movie intersped with the footage of Julia singing.

* The video for Music/WhitneyHouston's cover of "I Will Always Love You" uses a lot of clips from ''Film/TheBodyguard''. In addition to promoting the movie the clips also helpd to [[HideYourPregnancy distract the viewer from Houston's pregnancy]].

* The music video for Music/KellyClarkson's "Breakaway", intersped with not just clips but the poster for ''Film/ThePrincessDiaries 2: Royal Engagement''.

* The last few seconds of Music/ParachuteExpress' video for the song "Dr. Looney's Remedy" utilizes various clips from classic Disney animated shorts and films.

* The video for Music/{{Paramore}}'s "Decode" is filled with clips from ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'', and looks like it was shot in the same forest.

* Music/{{Queen}}:

* Music/{{Sia}}'s "Rainbow", from ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyTheMovie2017'', alternates between scenes from the film, including her character Songbird Serenade, and footage of dancer Maddie Ziegler, who has a habit of appearing in Sia’s music videos.

* {{Music/Wheatus}}' "Teenage Dirtbag" was released as a single to promote the film ''Loser'' - the video mainly mixes clips from the movie with footage of the band playing in a school gym (and later on at a prom). Through re-contextualizing certain scenes and adding new footage of lead actors Jason Biggs and Mina Suvari, the video still follows the plot of the song's lyrics closer than it does that of the movie... though it's also shown to all be a dream of Jason's character.

** When the same track was used as the opening song for ''WesternAnimation/Shrek1'', a video was released showing members of the band looking for members of the cast in a hotel, and keeping on narrowly missing each other. There were also a few scenes which referenced the Power of Love video done for ''Film/BackToTheFuture''.

* Two videos for ''Film/BackToTheFuture'', Huey Lewis' "The Power of Love" from the original (and yet "Back in Time", which mentions to the film's plot, averts the trope) and Music/ZZTop's "Doubleback" from the third.

* Music/PaulSimon's "Father and Daughter" from ''WesternAnimation/TheWildThornberrysMovie''.

* Music/SmashMouth's "All Star" video originally contained clips from ''Film/MysteryMen'' and sported cameos from the cast of the film, but when the song became [[BreakawayPopHit much more popular than the movie]], the clips and the scene featuring the cast were taken out.
** When the same track was used as the opening song for ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}'', a video was released showing members of the band looking for members of the cast in a hotel, and keeping on narrowly missing each other. There were also a few scenes which referenced the Power of Love video done for ''Film/BackToTheFuture''.

* The video for Music/RascalFlatts' "Life Is a Highway" features several clips from ''WesternAnimation/{{Cars}}'', on whose soundtrack it was included.

** ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing'' has ''two'' videos of this type that intercut Music/EltonJohn with scenes from the film: "Can You Feel the Love Tonight?" and "Circle of Life". The latter also incorporates the animation studio and a live lion cub into the action.

* Music/WeirdAlYankovic did this with bits of ''Film/JohnnyDangerously'' cut into "This Is the Life"; rather than a PerformanceVideo, Al appears as a gangster in a similar 1930s nightclub setting. A {{Recut}} of the video created for 1985's ''The Compleat Al'' eliminated the movie clips and thus abridged the song, but later compilations and Al's [=YouTube=] channel all use the original version.

A common trope for songs that are part of a movie's soundtrack and (usually) written for that movie, the video consists of clips and other thematic elements from the movie. An actor or two may show up as well. This serves as an additional way of promoting the movie--often becoming its unofficial theme song (unless it's already the ''official'' theme song)--as well as providing another hit for the artist, and the song often finds itself as a bonus track on their next album or an UpdatedRerelease of the current.

A common trope for songs that are part of a movie's soundtrack and (usually) written for that movie. The video consists of many clips from the film. This serves as an additional way of promoting the movie--often becoming its unofficial theme song (unless it's already the ''official'' theme song)--as well as providing another hit for the artist, and the song often finds itself as a bonus track on their next album or an UpdatedRerelease of the current.

** Darlene Love's "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1uJPGRfO5Y All Alone On Christmas]]" which features movie clips from ''Home Alone 2'', as well as Macaulay Culkin appearing in the video as the song's producer.
** Super Deluxe's "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiSFNbjBcvE All I Wanted Was A Skateboard]]" features clips from ''Home Alone 3''.

* The last few seconds of Parachute Express' video for the song "Dr. Looney's Remedy" utilizes various clips from clsssic Disney animated shorts and films.

* The last few seconds of
Parachute Express' video for the song "Dr. Looney's Remedy" utilizes various clips from clsssic Disney animated shorts and films.

* The video for Music/{{Aerosmith}}'s "I Don't Wanna Miss A Thing" does this with clips from ''Film/{{Armageddon}}''.

* The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWyBN14Kp-A music video]] for Music/CatHairballs is made up entirely of clips from multiple episodes, but still manages to tell a story by using "[[Recap/RenAndStimpy2x09TheGreatOutdoorsTheCatThatLaidTheGoldenHairball The Cat That Laid The Golden Hairball]]" as a through line. The video is about Stimpy being forced to lick up and hwarf hairballs onto a conveyor belt while Ren Stamps them with a big "Grade A" stamp for approval. While at first things seem fun and Stimpy seems happy to be farmed for this {{Unobtainium}}, things turn darker when Stimpy's body starts running out of places to lick and the act of hwarfing becomes more draining and painful as production (and the song) wramps up. Finally this ends with Stimpy, now naked and totally licked clean, suffering a HeroicRROD and passing out on the conveyor belt, and Ren violently [[spoiler: [[ButtBrand branding]] Stimpy's [[PainToTheAss ass]]]]with the "Grade A" stamp.

** In Diana King's "Shy Guy" video from 1995's ''Film/BadBoys'', Smith and Martin Lawrence appear as the two titular cops of the film, reacting to the singer's presence and trying (miserably) to dance to the music.

** The title theme for the [[Film/{{Ghostbusters 1984}} original film]], sung by Ray Parker Jr. The music video features Parker stalking a young woman in a neon-lit apartment, clips from the film, various celebrity cameos, and ends with the main cast dancing in the middle of Times Square.

** [[Music/LinkinPark Linkin Park's]] "New Divide" from the ''Film/TransformersRevengeOfTheFallen'' soundtrack.

* One of the earliest examples of this trope, with its movie arriving about a month before MTV launched, was Christopher Cross's video for [[Film/{{Arthur 1981}} "Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do)"]] intercuts clips of him and his backing band in a recording studio with clips from the movie. It's the first music video for a song that went on to win the Best Original Song Academy Award.

** "Hole in My Heart" from her NonActorVehicle ''Film/{{Vibes}}'' is set in a generic Chinatown (because the song's TitleDrop is followed by "that goes all the way to China") and opens with the staff of a laundry watching a clip from the movie on TV. Lauper rushes through and performs in the sheet-strewn backroom for part of the song, while the movie's MacGuffin materializes in the front and triggers some brief [[FantasySequence fantasy sequences]] in the second verse, intercut with more movie clips.

** When the same track was used as the opening song for WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}, a video was released showing members of the band looking for members of the cast in a hotel, and keeping on narrowly missing each other. There were also a few scenes which referenced the Power of Love video done for Film/BackToTheFuture.

* Parodied in the ''Series/{{MADtv}}'' skit[=/=]ShowWithinAShow "Pretty White Kids with Problems". Midway through the second skit, the announcer mentions a tie-in soundtrack that is overflowing with indie artists, as well as a mock music video by Lisa Loeb, who appears in person to sing the theme song and interact with the characters as they deal with their issues.
* The LiveActionTV/ComedyCentralRoastOfPamelaAnderson opened with a music video montage featuring clips from all over her career set to the songs "[[Music/MotleyCrue Looks that Kill]]" "[[Music/BlackEyedPeas My Humps]]" "[[Music/LennyKravitz Lady]]" and "[[Music/OkGo So Damn Hot]]". The footage included clips from Baywatch, Miserable, VIP, and Barbedwire, as well as pictures from her modeling career and close-ups of her "assets." The video gradually ramps up speed before ending on the scene from Music/{{Miserable}} were she [[spoiler: catches lead singer A.J. Popoff in her mouth and eats him before strutting away.]]

* The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWyBN14Kp-A music video]] for Music/CatHairballs is made up entirely of clips from multiple episodes, but still manages to tell a story by using [[Recap/RenAndStimpy2x09TheGreatOutdoorsTheCatThatLaidTheGoldenHairball The Cat That Laid The Golden Hairball]] as a through line. The video is about Stimpy being forced to lick up and hwarf hairballs onto a conveyor belt while Ren Stamps them with a big "Grade A" stamp for approval. While at first things seem fun and Stimpy seems happy to be farmed for this {{Unobtainium}}, things turn darker when Stimpy's body starts running out of places to lick and the act of hwarfing becomes more draining and painful as production (and the song) wramps up. Finally this ends with Stimpy, now naked and totally licked clean, suffering a HeroicRROD and passing out on the conveyor belt, and Ren violently [[spoiler: [[ButtBrand branding]] Stimpy's [[PainToTheAss ass]]]]with the "Grade A" stamp.

* {{Music/Wheatus}}' "Teenage Dirtbag" was released as a single to promote the film ''Loser'' - the video mainly mixes clips from the movie with footage of the band playing in a school gym (and later on at a prom). Through recontextualizing certain scenes and adding new footage of lead actors Jason Biggs and Mina Suvari, the video still follows the plot of the song's lyrics rather than that of the movie.