Occam's Sponge: Mapping the Timelines of the Command and Conquer Canon

This is a video prepared on and off over the course of 8 months, originally meant as a primer and summary of the various timelines of Command and Conquer, which snowballed into this feature length mess, as other intents, such as giving a primer to friends on Command and Conquer for a silly, silly reason mentioned in the video.
Hopefully, you'll enjoy it, and will not mind the occaisonal audio or visual bug. Some of which were placed intentionally, to better conceal the ones that weren't.


Below, are the hopefully complete credits for all outside resources used in the making of this video.
A better formated Google Docs version (complete with hyperlinks where applicable) is available here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1u...

00:00 Intro
00:01:07 What is C&C?
00:02:07 What is this video?
00:03:58 Wrath of Chronos: The Mechanics of Time Travel
00:11:29 Start of the Chronology explanation
00:13:01 Red Alert 1
00:15:33 Unintended Consquences: The Brotherhood of Nod
00:20:44 Kane's Goal: Tiberium
00:22:28 Return to Red Alert
00:23:33 Red Alert 2
00:28:29 Yuri's Revenge
00:35:10 Chronosphere in the Tiberian games
00:37:30 Red Alert 3
00:40:53 Red Alert 1's split
00:42:17 The Prodigal Son: The Tiberian/Red Alert split
00:48:10 Unsupported Fan Speculation Gen 4: 14-16
00:51:33 Finalizing the Tiberian/Red Alert split
00:53:11 Generals
00:58:14 Generals 2/C&C2013
01:01:03 The Complete Chronology Recap
01:05:48 What could be changed?
01:09:13 Time Loop Paradox and Hypertime
01:14:55 Pros and Cons of the two showcased chronologies
01:19:07 Intro to the Final Topic
01:21:49 The Final Topic
01:23:46 Command and Conquer: Tiberian Fallout
01:28:55 Credits


Footage Used:
Command & Conquer series - Westwood, EA Pacific, EALA, BreakAway Games, Victory Games & EA:
Red Alert 1
Red Alert 2
Yuri’s Revenge
Red Alert 3
Tiberian Dawn
Tiberian Sun
Firestorm
Renegade (Manual)
Tiberium Wars
Kane’s Wrath
Generals
Generals: Zero Hour
Command & Conquer (2013)/Generals 2 (Trailer)
Command and Conquer 3/Incursion (Concept art)
Remastered Collection (Poster)

Dune Series - Westwood & Virgin Games
Dune 2

Youtube Videos which’s footage and/or thumbnail was used:

The Chronology of Red Alert by NoStringsPrd (   / nostringsprd  , intro and Chrono Vortex footage by CCHyper (https://www.artstation.com/cchyper​), with script help by KeybladeWXV (   / @keybladewielderxv  )
Insane Story of ‘Red Alert’ Terribly Summarized. by AlternateHistoryHub (   / alternatehistoryhub  )
Yuri was Created by Kane! | Red Alert 2 & Tiberium Wars by XYHC (   / @xyhc-cnc  )

Footage, from the Prelinger Archives through Archive.org:
1960 Kennedy-Nixon Debate (Part II)
America Goes Over (Part 1)
America Goes Over (Part 2)
Avenge December 7 (Pearl Harbor)
Divide and Conquer (Part 1)
Don’t Be a Sucker
Duck and Cover
Frontiers of the Future (A Screen Editorial with Lowell Thomas)
In My Merry Oldsmobile
Look to Lockheed for Leadership (Part I)
News Magazine of the Screen: Atomic Energy
News Parade: Bombing of Pearl Harbor
Pathe News Digest (1937, No. 3)
Red Chinese Battle Plan
To Conserve Our Heritage (Part 1)
A War Within a War
Which Way This Time?

Additional Stock Footage from Pexels:
Rotating Earth (Originally wrong direction, tssk, tssk), Pixabay

Stock Effects from ShutterStock:
Free Film Grains

Public Domain Footage from Wikimedia Commons:
Operation Upshot test

Music Used:
"In Your Arms" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b...

The Soundtrack of 3 Westwood games, composed by Frank Klepacki:
Command & Conquer(: Tiberian Dawn)
Red Alert (1)
Dune 2000
These tracks are named as they begin play in the top left corner of the screen.

Images Used:
Trinity Test Site aerial 3 - Christopher Andrew Okula
Additional images from PXHere and Textures.com
Additional images flagged as Public Domain from Wikimedia Commons



Fonts Used:
Blue Highway Font Family- Typodermic Fonts
Monofonto - Typodermic Fonts
Zrnic Regular - Typodermic Fonts
Share Tech Mono - Carrois Type Design
Changa Font Family - Eduardo Tunni
Alien - Electronic Arts (The font of the Scrin)

Tools Used:
Lightworks
GIMP
Audacity
Deep-Image



Additional Footage, relevant to the final topic, left for the end to avoid spoilers:
Fallout Series - Black Isle Studios, Interplay, Bethesda Game Studios, Bethesda Softworks
Fallout
Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood of Steel
Fallout 3
Fallout 4


Finally, a very special thank you to Desty, who I felt inappropriate putting in the end credits, but without whom I likely never would have come to do the things that led me to make this video.
Thank you, and rest in peace.








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