Whether you’re settling a bet or waxing nostalgic about the movies of your youth, everyone has wanted to re-watch a favorite scene in a classic movie at one point or another. AnyClip is a website that lets you do that, by offering up an index of more than 2,000 searchable film clips that users can sort by tag or keyword and watch or share as much as they like.
Instead of fast-forwarding through an entire film just to see one funny scene, you can use AnyClip to cut directly to the chase. The site lets you search for clips by quote, action, object, actor, or film. This gives you an easy way to pinpoint a specific scene in a forgotten movie, even if all you remember is that the scene featured Johnny Depp sitting in a convertible car. (Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.) Once you’ve pulled up the intended clip, watch it for yourself or send it out to friends by emailing a link and uploading the video to Facebook or Twitter. If watching the scene piques your interest and makes you want to see the whole film, simply click on the left-hand side of the page to add the movie to your Netflix queue, buy it on Amazon, or download it on iTunes.
Because AnyClip only offers the movie clips it legally has access to, its library might not have the specific scene you’re searching for yet. However, as the site continues to grow, its offerings will expand as well. For any movie buff who enjoys quoting films and replaying favorite scenes, AnyClip is an addictive website that’s worth playing around with.
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April 6, 2010
Dear Stephanie,
Thanks for the review! I just wanted to clarify what you said about our index of clips. AnyClip doesn’t produce “clips” in the traditional sense — all of our movie moments are dynamically generated from the entire, contiguous movie. Unlike traditional “movie clip” sites where you you see just the moments they think are good, AnyClip makes an entire film searchable, thereby providing an infinite number of clips. Please let me know if you have any questions.
Best ~
Chris Cohen
VP Operations
AnyClip
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