Syncro Vox (Clutch Cargo)

[Beastkingzetta]

AWESOME!!! LOL!!!

[xalener]

Wasn't this in pulp fiction?

heheheh.

[eszettfromhell]

Also: syncro vox just looks like herpes.

[mrkrinkle72]

he think totem pole alive!!!



[IMCcanTWEESTED]

They always looked like they had jam smeared on their mouths.

I especially like the Eskimo stereotype bordering on racism.

[eszettfromhell]

@IMCcanTWEESTED Bordering on? BORDERING ON?

[20Mar1boro]

bring back synchro vox lol

[cochranexyz]

J.P. Patches website brought me here. "flat out weird" he says. I agree.

[malakszombie]

This is rather racist.

[kharnifex]

it looks like they have been sharing one cup

[Mucksauce]

Oh Lance and his clutch cargo cartoons.

[KiramidHead]

Wasn't this briefly on a TV at one point in Pulp Fiction?

[Chupacabrathe2nd]

@KiramidHead Yes.

[Muzzy337]

pulp fiction. lol.

[LikaLaruku]

Jesus christ. The last episode of "Captain N: the Game Master" had more animation than this.

[tscastro114]

So this is where Disney and Pixar got the idea of the animation style of the "Mr. Incredible and Pals" short.

[HylianSpirit]

Five long years, he wore this watch, up his ass.

[BenAliGtor]

Spinner the Prepubescent Castrado.

[chumpusmaximusohnose]

..creepy

[jamesojld]

Watch Judge Judy, her mouth make me think of Clutch Cargo ...

[niflap]

Even then, they had HUD at the North Pole. Gee, I thought every one there worked 4 Santa' elves!

[indierollz]

this is insanely racist and i commend you for that.

[thetuckman1]

That is soooo racist.

[elcid1984]

That dog looks as Chinese as the eskimo.

[tabrismacbeth]

0:30- "I'll explain what stereotypical gibberish is to you later, son."

[MrFennmeista]

Hmmmmmmmmm. Not Racist or Stereotypical at all!. (Ooogalooga!)

[onprocess]

After Clutch Cargo was cancelled, he went on to play Race Bannon on "Jonny Quest"

[astrotoadp6]

screw the creepy-arse syncro vox, i'm more concerned with the blatant racism xD

[mikey42]

@astrotoadp6 What racism?

[astrotoadp6]

@astrotoadp6 the inuit? "ooga looga"? xD

[Delmarvellous]

And you thought this technique originated w. the opening of Sponge Bob Squarepants.

[RyeBreadThree]

Wow...this is just laziness in animation.

[mussman717word]

"Died of dysentery, he gave me the watch. I hid this uncomfortable hunk of metal up my ass for two years. Then, after seven years, I was sent home to my family. And now, little man, I give the watch to you."

[unholyfirestorm]

The first example of this I saw was Invasion of the Bunny Snatchers when I was real little. Even then, it bothered me. I can't imagine if I saw this. I feel bad for kids back then.

[novembrine1]

U only get that kinda lips after 10 hours with Max Hardcore..

[GilbertSmith]

Butch, would you turn the TV off for a minute? Somebody here wants to talk to you.

[J05HDA]

could this be any more racist?

[triffidfarmer1]

Ha! I always wondered what young Butch was watching when Captain Koons came to give him his father's watch. Now I know. Thanks!

[w5cdt]

Yep..I figured out they use actual mouths. As a kid it took me a while but one day I noticed it!

[MrJacMac1986]

Isnt it a little"creepy" that clutch hangs out with a boy who is not his son.Hope Clutch doesnt wind up on a dateline nbc sting house.

[MrJacMac1986]

maybe the lips were a mutation result of all the above ground atomic testing during the 1950's

[faith2xxx]

Ok, I watched this show as a kid. It's rather disturbing now!

[Kildiazar]

Wow! It's both cheap and racially offensive!

[Riciaf]

Augh it's creepy! *cries in a corner*

[YayForCake]

That kid is one of the more terrifying things I've seen in my lifetime.

[LionTroy]

0:57 the animation moved, that was 10% of the entire budget right there.

[1952kid]

I couldnt take more than a minute of this even as a child. Nice memories of a really bad cartoon.

[NotATube]

I've seen similar effects done on *real life* footage in the past few years.

The BBC "comedy" series "My Hero" made a few years back had a Super-Baby that could talk like a five-year-old. It just looked creepy and fake to me.

The Robbie Williams video "Tripping" also does this with a young child, and it doesn't work too well there either. So much for progress!

In *this* show's defence, it's 50 years old and no-budget. Surprised it was in colour at that time, guess they had reruns in mind.

[barbarajacob]

Search for the "annoying orange" vid on youtube: it's syncro vox resuscitated! (apparently youtube won't let me include the link, humbug)

[MusicBySav]

@barbarajacob i think steve oderkerck uses syncro vox for his thumb films

[Atomicskull]

@barbarajacob Annoying Orange isn't the first to reuse this idea, or the first to expand it to the entire face either. Look up Thumb Wars.

[Masterge77]

I'm sure that if Synchro vox was still used today , it would surely give children nightmares for more than a year, thank god for Computer animation

[barbarajacob]

@Masterge77 It's not clear to me if at that time the spectators were exceptionally willing to suspend their disbelief, or if it was already seen as something disquietingly queer. Judging by the various comments, i'd say the latter.

[inkey2]

@barbarajacob : even as a kid when this cartoon first came out my brother and I thought it looked very weird

[james0tucson]

@barbarajacob

We *knew* it was horrible. But we'd sit through it to get to the next cartoon.

[racookster]

@barbarajacob: Your comment is ancient history, but I might as well answer it. I'm 53 years old. I was certainly aware of Clutch Cargo when it first came out, but I can't say I watched it. I could tell it was below-bargain-basement cheap when I was three years old. Even as a preschooler, I couldn't suspend disbelief. Those weird damn lips made it unwatchable. My parents howled with laughter anytime they ran across it on the TV. It was already seen as disquietingly queer, all right.

[LikaLaruku]

@Masterge77 It is. Look up "Annoying Orange."

[popomatic1970]

I think this is the cartoon that the Bruce Willis character (as a kid) was watching in Pulp Fiction when Chris Walken showed up with the watch.

[Bodogjoe]

Me too, I just have this feeling that the person behind the mouth is in some weird 4th dimension.

[pastel86z]

even when I was a kid I always thought those mouths were creepy.

[DarknessbUnnie]

Gah, even when they try to make the mouth level in the frames, they still appear crooked!

[1952kid]

Well, we only had 7 tv channels if you were lucky back then, so we watched it. It was better than doing homework.

[Curttehmurt]

horrifying animation and extremely racist depiction of the Inuit

[inkey2]

i'm guessing that this style of animation saved them a fortune and made it easier to produce.....the bodies seldom ever moved.....just facial features

[barbarajacob]

@inkey2 indeed, the term "reduced animation" was used... and the budget for Clutch Cargo was tiny compared to similar contemporary products.

[LordBifford]

@inkey2 0:57 Their sudden transition to astonishment is priceless

[fezmovies]

NIGHT.MARE.FUEL.

[joewhittles]

was this made in an afternoon?

[SteevDragon67]

there's that eskimo guy from the episode shown on pulp fiction! I've heard of low budget animation, but this is ridiculous!

[crazy650c]

@SteevDragon67.....You have to remember this is 1959....no computers, no calculators, they barely had adding machines...you know, the ones with the crank handle? It was fantastic for it's time.

[onyxone144]

When I have too much to drink, my lips move like that, not to talk about my breath...

[Harashi360]

The fact that they added cartoon mouths when there was no dialogue makes it that much weirder.

[Jasonbobdude]

So was it necessary that the voice actors all wore dark red lipstick? It doesn't really make the characters any less threatening...

[barbarajacob]

the lipstick underlined the lips' movement and avoided the mouth to look like a black hole in a sea of lurid pink. Horrid, but efficacious :D

[meemit]

@Jasonbobdude You have to remember that back then only about 3% of households had color tv. So this would look a bit different in b/w. Live action actors' makeup for b/w tv was even more hideously creepy. Eww.

[YouSmellLikeACat]

this was in pulp fiction

[gavingogo]

no sound

[barbarajacob]

I know... my original had sound but something went wrong with the upload.

[barbarajacob]

it has sound now