For reasons too mundane to go into, I am in need of movie clips of gongs being rung. The Rank Organization had an intro at the beginning of their movies of a strongman striking a large gong. And (likely an homage) there’s a gong rung at the beginning of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. After that, I can’t really think of any, but I know there must be more.
Movies, cartoons, TV shows (if I must), all are fair game. C’mon, Teeming Millions, help me out here. Bonus points if it’s available on youtube.
Pink Floyd - Live at Pompeii - “played” by Roger Waters.
I think there’s a rather modest gong used to open the tournament in Enter the Dragon.
In Zep’s The Song Remains the Same - John Bonham whacks a flaming gong to finish off one of the songs, I don’t remember which, and chose not to revisit to find out.
The Rank Organization had an intro at the beginning of their movies of a strongman almost striking a large piece of papier-mâché with someone else striking a much smaller tam tam. (I’m assuming you want only images of the giant-ass gongs and not the many much smaller varieties, though.)
Venus Flytrap used a gong in WKRP (TV) as a gimmick in his late-night DJ show, I think in the first episode of his appearance, where he hits it just a tad too hard.
The President’s Analyst from 1967 is great. James Coburn plays the title character and is into gongs. Throw in Godfrey Cambridge and you’ve got yourself a movie.
But wait, there’s more: also has Pat Harrington, Joan Darling (director of First Love), Arte Johnson and B-movie queen Kathleen Hughes.
The studio with the gonger in the production opener was Rank. The guy was Ken Richmond who died several years ago. (Ninjaed!)
