# Songs about film and motion pictures **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 15, 2014, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-film-and-motion-pictures/678854 "2014-01-15T05:21:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2014, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-film-and-motion-pictures/678854/1 "2014-01-15T05:21:41Z")
In the recent tradition of “Songs About…” threads, let’s do one about movies & photography. Alien Ant Farm “Movies” Def Leppard “Photograph” Duran Duran “Girls on Film” J. Geils Band “Freeze-Frame” Peter Gabriel “Family Snapshot” Quarterflash “Take Another Picture” Rush “The Camera Eye” Steely Dan “Everybody’s Gone to the Movies” The Cure “Pictures of You” Yes “Into the Lens (I Am A Camera)” ---
**Author:** ![Accidental\_Martyr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ce7236/32.png) [@Accidental\_Martyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Accidental_Martyr)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2014, 7:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-film-and-motion-pictures/678854/2 "2014-01-15T07:54:05Z")
“Camera”-R.E.M. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2014, 7:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-film-and-motion-pictures/678854/3 "2014-01-15T07:56:30Z")
Paul Simon -“Kodachrome” ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2014, 7:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-film-and-motion-pictures/678854/4 "2014-01-15T07:57:10Z")
“Kodachrome” by Simon & Garfunkel Ninja’d! ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2014, 7:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-film-and-motion-pictures/678854/5 "2014-01-15T07:59:44Z")
“Celluloid Heroes” by the Kinks ---
**Author:** ![Accidental\_Martyr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ce7236/32.png) [@Accidental\_Martyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Accidental_Martyr)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2014, 8:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-film-and-motion-pictures/678854/6 "2014-01-15T08:12:08Z")
“Act Naturally”-Buck Owens [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/GpBEBV1wkq4/hqdefault.jpg "Buck Owens & the Buckaroos - Act naturally (1963)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpBEBV1wkq4) ---
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“Take a Picture” by Filter ---
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Maybe a cheat since it’s a theme song from a TV show, but [The Unknown Stuntman](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4LX8PPMuOY) (theme of _The Fall Guy_ and sung by its star, Lee Majors) is obviously about making movies and TV and it references a lot of stars from that era. ---
**Author:** ![Martini\_Enfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/martini_enfield/32/11123_2.png) [@Martini\_Enfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martini_Enfield)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2014, 8:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-film-and-motion-pictures/678854/9 "2014-01-15T08:31:38Z")
“Saturday Night at the Movies” - The Drifters “Cinema” - Benny Benassi “Silver Screen (Shower Scene)” - Felix Da Housecat ---
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Two from the Statler Brothers _[Pictures](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPDpOb01640)_ [_Whatever Happened to Randolph Scott?_](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJlD5roDqNw) ---
**Author:** ![Accidental\_Martyr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ce7236/32.png) [@Accidental\_Martyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Accidental_Martyr)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2014, 8:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-film-and-motion-pictures/678854/11 "2014-01-15T08:39:29Z")
“Screenwriter’s Blues”-Soul Coughing ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2014, 8:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-film-and-motion-pictures/678854/12 "2014-01-15T08:44:57Z")
“Photograph” by Ringo Starr ---
**Author:** ![Accidental\_Martyr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ce7236/32.png) [@Accidental\_Martyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Accidental_Martyr)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2014, 9:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-film-and-motion-pictures/678854/13 "2014-01-15T09:09:40Z")
“Science Fiction/Double Feature”-_The Rocky Horror Picture Show_ Soundtrack (Richard O’Brien) ---
**Author:** ![Accidental\_Martyr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ce7236/32.png) [@Accidental\_Martyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Accidental_Martyr)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2014, 9:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-film-and-motion-pictures/678854/14 "2014-01-15T09:54:35Z")
“She’s in Parties”-Bauhaus [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/QCg4i1f_oDY/hqdefault.jpg "Bauhaus - "She's In Parties"") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCg4i1f_oDY) ---
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Depeche Mode: _Photographic_ and _A Photograph Of You_ ---
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Neil Young: Motion Pictures It’s not solely about motion pictures, but it’s called Motion Pictures. [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdT07UdqsX0) ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2014, 11:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-film-and-motion-pictures/678854/17 "2014-01-15T11:48:04Z")
“Breakfast at Tiffany’s” by Deep Blue Something: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/1ClCpfeIELw/maxresdefault.jpg "Deep Blue Something - Breakfast At Tiffany's (Official Music Video)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ClCpfeIELw) ---
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[“Movies Is Magic” - Brian Wilson & Van Dyke Parks](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nxfnjTUbEo) ---
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I think Ultravox’s “Reap the Wild Wind” is about the movie of the same name. Big Audio Dynamite’s “E=mc2” is about Nicholas Roeg movies. ---
**Author:** ![lost4life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c4cdca/32.png) [@lost4life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lost4life)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2014, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-film-and-motion-pictures/678854/20 "2014-01-15T15:06:31Z")
> [@buddha\_david](#): > > Peter Gabriel “Family Snapshot” IIRC, that one’s mostly about an assassination, but it’s been awhile. How about: **The Friends of Mr Cairo** - Jon and Vangelis. \*\*Turning Japanese \*\*- The Vapors [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-film-and-motion-pictures/678854.md?page=2)