Planet Claire

[richo61]

Love the B52's song.

[BrentD2010]

Bender @1:47 Clearly where the designed was taken for Futurama. Nice nod to the old pulp science fiction, just about everything in the show.



[BigBAtl13]

This is what a Planet Claire Video should look like!

[teainthesahara]

Hey great match-up of music and images.

[garydunncolumbus]

Perfect presentation! This is what a Planet Claire Video should look like!

[marcelkonings60]

A very fast Peter Gunn! Love it.

[lulwutitude]

The image at 3:31 where is that from?

[64roo]

Love your work.

[milesprunier]

@64roo Thanks very much. I'm glad that you enjoyed it. I've always loved retro sci-fi and the B-52's Planet Claire seemed like the perfect accompanimentt to these images.

[DEK33019]

@milesprunier. My friend you have done an excellent job here! You brought back great memories for me. When I was an NYU college student in the 80s I would go to this club at the time called The Ritz in the East Village of New York. This club was groundbreaking in that it featured these huge video screens. So in the early 80s when New Wave/Alternative music was getting recognition the video screens would have a montage sequences similar to what you put together here. Thank You.

[hetjaar]

brilliant  film and editing!

[bjmob77]

very cool..

[Tralalere]

Great job!

[TheRealInvaderZim]

Classic mix -Thanks again :):)

[LIFEONPLANETBECK]

I'll never forget the 1st time I heard this and The B-52's....Beam me up Scotty! My luscious/prescious muse-de-jour(eternity actually) Beck(hands off he's MINE) was obviously inspired by this while he wrote The Information(hehe)Classic space boogie, back when I was a proper diva(the memories...)Fine work there comrade, cheers!

[13Videos]

Thanks for sharing the link to this with me, Planet Beck. Great theme - and quite close to heart - especially of late.

Rise up Rock Lobsters!

[101Volts]

Hey, aren't the clips at the start from Metropolis (1928)?

[milesprunier]

Yes, the clips at the start and at the end are from Fritz Lang's Metropolis (1927).

[101Volts]

Thanks, I also recognize Robby the Robot from Forbidden Planet and the guy in a weird suit at 2:06. Wasn't he from a 13 episode TV series called "Moon Men" Or something similar?

[milesprunier]

I believe the guy in the flying suit is from "Zombies of the Stratosphere", a weird little movie from 1952 that features Leonard Nimoy in a small role as a Martian.

[101Volts]

Hmm. I may be confusing spacemen here. Or perhaps both used similar suits.

[necromantikman]

@milesprunier That's Commando Cody from the Radar Men From the Moon movie shorts.

[druidess01]

luvs it.

[iMBBonlyone]

hee hee. art.

[JainaMac]

Well done! We had a lot of fun watching that.

[GoblinXXX]

That was fun. I was surprised there was no clip of the endless dancing to Strangers in Paradise from FIRE MAIDENS OF OUTER SPACE, though.

[arklat]

Fred makes the "hooo hooo" sound at the start of the song by blowing over the top of a beer bottle. Pretty cool, huh?

[hailbrainiac]

On stage he actually plays a toy piano in Rock Lobster.

[101Volts]

I think you mean "Dance This Mess Around".

[jeanharlow78]

i looooove it. It makes u want to move ur body in the weirdest ways. Its so much fun

[JRCrowley]

I like you.

[jeanharlow78]

thanks JR

[ripjoint]

Good God. Fantastic. Long live Fred Schneider and the memory of Fritz Lang. A friend of mine had Metropolis on Beta back in the mid 'seventies and I thought that this was the Alpha and the Omega. I think now that this was true.

[IgnasiVR]

Excelente vídeo. En el seg. 1:48 sale el abuelo de Bender de Futurama.

[milesprunier]

Yes, he looks a lot like Bender, doesn't he?

[topboss]

wow really nice video!

[computerblue84]

this is one of the sexiest videos ive seen. robots, pin-up girls, sci-fi, best new wave band of the era...YUMMY!

[oxmys]

For robots and biologically diverse aliens to lust after red-blooded Earth women is not logical.

[ELGROOVER]

oxmys

Not logical, fascin@ing nonetheless : |

[durgadrummond]

Wow!  What a great collection!

[TheRealInvaderZim]

1 biplane 1 monoplane---biplanes are still around(new)Pitts aerobatic, although you are the first to notice. also what large buildings had neon ads back then--a futuristic Tokyo, elevated highways didn't exist then in cities in the 20's--love the robot like switching servo's

[heybofe]

It's interesting how the super modern city of the future is depicted @ 00:43 but they still fly around in Bi-planes.

[TheRealInvaderZim]

Its really hard to imagine how futuristic Lange's film was(this was before sound in movies) I have a Contax camera from 1937- 10 yrs after these film clips that cost the same as 9oz of gold at 1937 prices, and thats just a 35mm camera!

[H2Hester]

Off the scale!

[geldhundt]

In case anyone is curious about the Morse code at the beginning, it reads: NAWS de CFH II ZKRF 1338 ... (trails off). It appears station CFH is calling station NAWS, since the "de" characters mean "from," but the rest means nothing to me. Perhaps fans of the movie would know more about the meaning of II ZKRF 1338... Just thought you might like to know.

[milesprunier]

Thanks for that info. Maybe the message is in French? In which case "de" could mean "from" or "of".

[davidhocd]

cdbe nouvelles de___à___!

he might be friend to annafreud(born1895,he1890

both in vienna where freud opened his shop1891)

should check if 1338 isn't freud's crisis-number then.

1907 1st opera:faust;1908 1st cartoon: fantasmagorie;1908 1st porn:la bonne auberge:)

19131st "cinéroman":fantomas1919 1st"science-fiction:trip to mars19321st zoom

[yxb1353]

Thank you! I was just about to ask that question.

Now, would you or anyone else happen to know what the Morse is at the beginning of "Lucifer" by the Alan Parsons Project? (album: Eve)

[geldhundt]

I listened to "Lucifer" and the Morse seems to be a repetitive series of "WVVV" over and over. There is also something that sounds like part of a call sign, "WA6..." It sounds like something that was recorded off the air and dubbed in with no intention of conveying a particular message.  Sorry I couldn't find some cool secret message.

[TheRealInvaderZim]

Very Nice and really good old futuristic material-THANKS

[hetjaar]

real nice job

[bleachfands]

that song is so annoying i cant get t out of my head

[allanxxx99]

Fritz Langs robot was amazing!. To think he conceived that in 1925.

[maasai123456789]

very good job !!!

[ubik8]

she drove a planet satellite into my mind !?*

Awesome dancey wowness

[milesprunier]

A Plymouth Satellite, an early ground vehicle with an internal combustion engine, powered by fossil fuel.

[akenaton97]

Muy buena seleccion

[PlayItAgainTubeSam]

i just watched the other vid of Planet Claire :(

this is so much better! :)

grew up with this AWESOME INTRO and got spellbound |;~{)]

[Galhar]

those old rockets were so phallic...

[xgirlfiendx]

sweeet!

[overdriven56]

Well done!

[nathangeli]

cosmic..

[currydink]

Good work... really good work. I just watched the B-52's vid for this. It's always been one of my favourite songs... and your pictures are a better match!

In another universe, I know this is Rotwang's song!

[edjdo]

I like this, really good pics, fits the song perfect