Kraftwerk Autobahn 1979 Animation by Roger Mainwood part 1

[sweetkees]

Great vid, reminds me of Eurolines.

[TheRazorbladesmile]

The recurring motif and use of single point perspective are very cleverly done, it's quite disparate but always comes back to the central idea of movement and speed

[marcvie9]

The video is scary !

[Destroyifyer]

Yeah... Kraftwerk probably hated this video.

[swanceva]

this dude smoked SO MUCH WEED

[illegalquantity]

I don't understand, why did you split the video. I already saw this video on YouTube in one part. (11:36min)

[WhiteLander88]

Great stuff!!

[malkuth3]

Reminds me of the 70's film Fantastic Planet! I would love to own this animation. Where can I get it?

[TheThreadshitter]

@malkuth3 It is from a French company, and oddly is a collection of cartoons from a british company, in their original English. I figured out how to order from that site some time ago and already have the DVDs (set of 2). This Kraftwerk animation is on it. You might need a special DVD player that can convert formats (my Oppo player works). Go to site named malavidafilms, click a DVD link, and something called Halas et Batchelor Le Best of British should be listed.

[iwpreyg1001]

und einer ?!

[tonijn1969]

It is a LSD animation,who have fantasy like this lol,LSD only

[neogeo53]

this is a bit like the pink elefants from dumbow

[TheZochor]

Have you ever seen an alien running? Seriously, this doesn't make any sense.

Everybody knows that aliens travels with a wheelchair.

[vastspace91]

This is an example of why drugs are good people!

[alessandramarquez]

me lokieooo u where right! :)

[Ragnaroegg2]

Wir waren damals weiter als heute

[Trainsirenguy]

That song is awesome but animation makes no sense!

[Rockdrigo0]

That blue guy looks as happy as me on lsd :D

[eddievhfan1984]

Awesome graphics, but it seems like this was done with a karaoke version for timing purposes. No offense, but the vocals don't sound original, and the sudden dropouts of electronic drums and other instruments sounds very much like a karaoke mix.

[lobsterbox20]

@eddievhfan1984 I believe that the slight difference you hear is just because of poor sound quality and a pitch change.

[eddievhfan1984]

@lobsterbox20 Well, poor sound quality doesn't explain why there's little to no vocoder, and why certain instruments pop back up. It makes me think that someone used one stereo channel of the song for this only.

[YouMyWifeNowDave]

@eddievhfan1984 Does it matter..? Tracks are edited a lot to create music videos and some nearly end up being different songs entirely. It is the same song but very distorted and edited. It is a very fine video and a very fine track with or without your audio analysis.

[eddievhfan1984]

@YouMyWifeNowDave Well, I'm not saying either one sucks. Anyone with two brain cells to rub together knows Kraftwerk is awesome, and this animation is awesome as well.

[eddievhfan1984]

@YouMyWifeNowDave And actually, that was my bad--I'd only heard the remixed 9-minute version of this song, not the original version. So my apologies, I dicked up in my research.

[JukeThatJukebox]

Yeah that shit rocks!

[LPAGAN401]

i shat bricks...

[1VINZ2]

wir fahrn fahrn fahrn mit der AUTOBAHN jea geiles lied !!!!! ersye techno mucke ham die typen gemacht !

[captainvideoralph]

trippy....just like the '70's

[247otaku]

I didnt know epic win came in colour O.O

[ishouldplayzelda]

wow, roger mainwood was so high

[MEATYOKERRable]

This is terrifying... it's like watching a homosexual acid trip.

[onwebcameron]

@MEATYOKERRable

You may be right there.

[biscuitchannel]

@MEATYOKERRable especially when he starts singing the first verse with the lips lol

[garagecrap]

Still ahead of time. Imagine hearing Kraftwerk back in the day, must have been awesome.

[meekrob]

Never seen the long version before.  Years ago they used to show a much shorter version on ON-TV (does anyone even remember that?) to fill time between movies.

[Evolverman]

@meekrob yes I never realized who did the music for it though - mid-eighties Irish TV - also had its fair share of Eastern European cartoon 'fillers' - would love to see some of them again - TV was full of holes then but some gems came out of those holes!

[1stchampagan]

@Evolverman

I remember those eastern european short animations and also a lot of canadian animation back then. I would love to find them on youtube.

[mrsdengler]

you know, this reminds me of la planete sauvage

[stinkalloy]

Excellent video, to one of the finest singles of the 70s. Kraftwerk should be remembered as Germany's Pink Floyd.

[cometothesabbat]

@stinkalloy Yeah, except Pink Floyd started sucking after a few albums:)

[bobbyalligator7]

...Heavy Metal anyone ! Nice hand crafted old animation !!! Thanks NatasPad :-)

[Masschine]

This was an awesome song for headphones.

[Jeffmendoza4]

man fuck u i aint no child im jus sayn it should have been the colts!

[Misterioso]

@Jeffmendoza4 Round up another for the stupid camp. It's the camp where I plan to send all the idiots when I am president.

[monster451]

@Misterioso but you are a twat, not president. Dream on.

[clintonearlwalker]

I would prolly put this in the top 5 videos I've ever seen posted on Youtube. Thanx 5 stars!!

[CatFiain]

Thanks so much for posting this! Haven't seen it in years. You're a star! :-D

[jerrold64]

Superphreakadelickdelicious dong.

I mean dong.

[tarait]

excellent dong! I think he meant song.

[GodofTheForge]

excellent animation coupled with an excellent dong. kudos to Kraftwerk, Roger Mainwood, and especially you for putting this on youtube (in color, no less)

[jeanbatman2002]

The main character is much a look-alike (graphically much more simple, but same colors and shapes) from the alien in Roland Topor and René Laloux's Fantastic Planet (1973). Check it on Youtube.

[Kraftwerk67]

A l'époque kraftwerk etait hyper connu ! Il devrait meme etre encore plus connu aujourd'hui que Daft Punk .

[stewarthird]

Still a classic

[smithrs]

Thanks for putting this up. Maybe someday we'll get a clean digitized copy but this is more than good enough in the mean time. There is so much animation of this genre (70's, trippy in nature, used as filler in early cable TV programming) that's basically lost at this point.

[ChrisHallett83]

A clean digitised copy? I strongly doubt that. Somebody may have a dusty old 8mm of it somewhere...

[359realpete]

played this record in 75' ... these guys were WAY ahead of their time , still rocks today..

[Skulldini]

Far out !!!!!!!!

[HarryPotter87]

A forgotten video of an electronic classic

[Ksubz007]

Pioneers of dance music, vid was so trippy man way ahead of their time

[Ksubz007]

Pioneers of dance music man, video was awesome so trippy way ahead of their time respect

[Graveyardwalker]

what the hell is this?

[tarait]

A high quality version of this film (in its original colour!) is now available on the Vodalmighty website. It is also available on a compilation DVD of films from the Halas and Batchelor studio released by French distributors Malavida.

[flodunk]

anyone interested in the vinyl LP from way back when ?

Kraftwerk is considered the mother of Techno.

[ffairlane57]

Your post has strange syntax, do you mind explaining what you mean?

[Firehawk005]

i mean its a bit strange to me.....

[cablegall]

I remember this song but never seen the video I really like it

[DropBassNotBombs]

The animation is fucking great, but this song is really boring.

[Skulldini]

Oh it's "boring"? Well do tell us, just what did it lack wich would have made it more exciting for you eh?

[monomana]

I feel like I'm watching a little bit of Fantastic Planet.

[sonofsilence]

Love this. I remember seeing this on Telly back in the 80's. Why Don't Kraftwerk release this, and a greatest hits?

[dickphair]

me too

takes me back,atmospheric vid

[johnsposato]

I listened to this for the first time in about 20 years. I remember having the tape. Sounds like it was taped from the LP. Kraftwerk were electronica trailblazers.

[skyferret1]

The video as well as the song brings back memories. And to think of their sound lab in Germany back in the 70's and how innovative they were with the technology back then. I'm kinda thinking something like 16 bits of glory at about 640 kilobytes.

[vonkaa]

What, orginal is black and white?

[tonijn1969]

yes 1973 version

[Chavazidiar]

Did you see those fat bottomed girls at 2:54? Probably escaped from Queen's 'Bicycle Race'...

[fernandomunozleon]

Thar is actually an interesting question. Autobahn was released in 1974. Fat Bottomed Girls, in 1978. But according to the animation's title, this dates from 1979. So there might be some sort of link.

[tonijn1969]

the orginal is black and white

[tarait]

Wow that's a good memory Ludenkart. Must have been about 26 years ago. The Hunger was a 1983 British Vampire movie. I had no idea that Autobahn was shown as a short before it. Was it in Germany that you saw it or in the UK?

[Ludenkarl]

Thanks for uploading this, i saw that video ages ago in the cinema before the Movie "the Hunger"

[oeleboeb]

i like autobhan and this is a originall version who is verry wel done

[mrbojangles22]

John Aldrich really likes this video, he wants it!