Weird animation

andrew_ireland

There was a weird animation RTE used to show between programmes around 1982/83. It was of a guy (looked a bit like one of those "Grey" aliens) running through what seemed to be a tunnel with flashing lights and alien creatures flying in formation.

Th music to it was a bit like a funkier version of Pink Floyd's "On the run" from the DSOTM album.

This has wrecked my head for years as to what it was, so any suggestions are greatly appreciated!!

Okie

I remeber this too, been in my head for the last while now but not found anything on the net. Will keep you posted if I find anything.

Irish Gardener

Class track.
Enjoy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DepNw-TaXyo

Ruu_Old

Wow good find and very weird indeed.

Okie

Crikey! :eek:

There's a jolt to the old nostalgia nerve!
That video is as nutty as a squirrel's sh!te!

Good stuff outta you Irish Gardener, cheers for the link.

bullets

As far as I know that song was 22 minutes long and was out in 1974.
Kraftwerk is still going strong they played in Ireland I think
not so long ago and I remember a tiny bit of hype
on the goth lists when they played. Some poeple loved them
and others were disapointed as they just stood their most
of the night. Have a few of their albums......someplace......
never really got into them but Liked "The Model" song and a few others.

(I actually have albums since I was 16 and I am 31 now and I still
have not got around to listening to them yet! Crikey!)

~B

andrew_ireland

:eek:

Well oh my god- that's the exact one I was talking about, I used to sit glued to the telly everytime this came on when I was a kid- I was only one when that video came out!

Thanks a million for finding that IrishGardener- you've no idea how tormented I've been to find that! You are truly a legend now!:D

aidan_dunne

God, I remember that too! I seem to remember RTE used to show it when there was a big gap they had to fill between programmes sometimes. Totally weird, though. The animator must have been on some seriously strong chemicals when he was doing up that thing!

There's another similar animation I seem to remember RTE also showed around that time that was along the same lines but it was an "outer space" kind of thing. Like you were zooming through space full of multi-coloured stars and stuff and I think there was a similar kind of electronic/synth/almost-Kraftwerk-like music track playing over it as well. Anyone remember that one? Or did I just imagine it or something?

Owen

There was an animation with Jean Michel Jarre that RTE also ran when they were stuck for 15 minutes to fill between programmes. Very strange to have Little House on the Prarie, followed by a lengthly animation out of the blue, and then into the A-Team. Thank God for Sky, if I could, I'd lock out the first 4 stations.

The Bollox

ned78 wrote:

There was an animation with Jean Michel Jarre that RTE also ran when they were stuck for 15 minutes to fill between programmes. Very strange to have Little House on the Prarie, followed by a lengthly animation out of the blue, and then into the A-Team. Thank God for Sky, if I could, I'd lock out the first 4 stations.

I'm not mad into drugs or anything, but I so wish RTÉ would still do things like this in between programms, because it is so the stuff you halucinate about when on drugs. man I gotta get me some dorito's

DublinWriter

This would have been of my vintage but I can't say I remember it.

What I do remember was the cheap-ass Lolek and Bolek cartoons RTE used to buy-in from the then communist Eastern Europe.

The Simpsons parodied them perfectly:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=dgabBIVoXPc

They used to have a sort of Frog Song type cartoon that was also used as a filler around the same time. I'd love to get more info on it so I could look it up.

Dudess

Was that The Frog Chorus by Paul McCartney? It had Rupert The Bear in it and he's watching a bunch of frogs putting on a damn fine show. Speaking of a former Beatle, there were shorts with similar animation to Yellow Submarine etc - The Ugly Bug Ball was one of them. Actually, I think that might have had something to do with The Beatles.

Back to the OP: I thought the cartoon in question had a bunch of different coloured alien guys but I suppose memory can get distorted. Seems to be the one all right - well done Irish Gardener. And yes, there was another freaky one with a guy getting up and going to space in a little rocket parked in his garden.
There was a bunch of them - another was a one about a pink elephant called Hamilton. Used to be shown at the most random times - like a Saturday evening. And there were loads of others - a one about a guy who kept burning his house down because he didn't realise that these 'blue-black stones' he was collecting were actually pieces of coal. Crazy ****. And of course all that Eastern European stuff as well. Something so sinister about those cheapy cartoons.

I love this particular topic of discussion. Here's a couple of similar threads.

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=174536
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2054914756

Edit: Oh wow! I've just found this link:http://www.halasandbatchelor.co.uk/page/home.html

I noticed 'Halas and Batchelor' at the end of the Kraftwerk cartoon - a poor man's Hanna and Barbera perhaps? Anyway, I'm gonna go study it: think it might have more info on these freaky cartoons. There's actually a still taken from that Kraftwerk one on the website. Woohoo! *rubs hands with excitement and goes sleuthing*

No, it was similar to the Frog song but wasn't it.

Dudess

Bunny Kelly - Butterfly Ball - that's the one you're looking for! Oh wow, this website is gold! And Halas was Hungarian too, hence the Eastern European style.

Yep that's the one. Nice one!

Dudess

There were public service/information-type cartoons too. A how-to-be-a-good-driver one was shown on RTE recently - about two or three years ago. The characters used were dogs rather than people. I had the misfortune of watching it in a Cork taxi rank at around 9.00 on a Sunday morning (had just left a party and wasn't feeling good). So they might still show those things - just at times when absolutely NOBODY is watching RTE.

Anyone remember the one about worrying sheep in the 80's? A pack of dogs running wild through the fields at night and the message was to keep your dogs in at night so they won't hunt in packs on the farms. Would like to see that again.

Dudess

http://crookedtimber.org/2007/01/25/toward-a-catalog-of-irish-public-service-ads/

Scroll through the above link - you'll find a few mentions of it. Don't remember it myself - maybe an inkling of a vague memory of bloodied sheep carcasses all right...