Weird trippy animated flying man video on RTE in 80s

Techseeker · 19-12-2009 11:25PM #1

Hi

Does anyone remember the trippy animated flying man video that used be on RTE in the 80s. It used to be on I think before the news to take up air time. All I can remember is that he flew around in and out of weird shapes and had big eyes that reflected stars. It was maybe 5-10mins long.

There was another animation with animals with I think a beatles soundtrack where all these animals group and march together, and there was a mouse with a mask on the back of his head. (weird stuff the mind remembers)

I have already found one memoryhere on the boards that haunted me, could not figure out this weird triangle thing with a glowing being inside it, which turned out to be Chocky.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3ztIDFU2P8

kwalshe · 19-12-2009 11:29PM

Drugs are great

Ruu_Old · 20-12-2009 05:07AM

Are you thinking of Autobahn by Kraftwerk? It was used as a filler by RTE a lot of the time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vcO5Agst0M

Techseeker · 20-12-2009 10:41AM

Aw, brilliant. Thanks so much. Its actually more trippy than I remember.

mud · 20-12-2009 12:26PM

Techseeker wrote: »

There was another animation with animals with I think a beatles soundtrack where all these animals group and march together, and there was a mouse with a mask on the back of his head. (weird stuff the mind remembers)

Was it this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0auCDOERZyE

Techseeker · 20-12-2009 11:42PM

Wow, completely forgot about that one, not quite it. but I might have misled with the Beatles. But from a related link on youtube I did find this one, with the mouse and the mask on the back of its head.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oADfmYQWmW8

This is the one I was looking for as it turns out it was Love is All by Roger Glover, but you got to admit its sounds very Beatles.

Thanks guys its great to see these again

biblio · 24-12-2009 04:59PM

Ruu wrote: »

Are you thinking of Autobahn by Kraftwerk? It was used as a filler by RTE a lot of the time.

:eek: I'd forgotten all about that It used to really freak me out

Dudess · 26-12-2009 12:54AM

I think the animals one might have been Butterfly Ball - done by the Beatles' animator guy.

Those cheapy cartoons which RTE showed on a loop in the early/mid 80s were mostly courtesy of Halas & Batchelor. You'll find much snippets of what you're looking for here (others include Hamilton the elephant, and Barnaby, the kid who hung out with an Oirish fairy godfather - Mr O'Malley):

http://www.halasandbatchelor.co.uk/

Weird trippy animated flying man video on RTE in 80s

Comments