The name says it all: creepy mechanical wind-up toys (the EYES!), robots with alphabet blocks, and satellites spinning around planets from vintage Sesame Street. All to stick-in-your-head music. I ...
The name says it all: creepy mechanical wind-up toys (the EYES!), robots with alphabet blocks, and satellites spinning around planets from vintage Sesame Street. All to stick-in-your-head music. I think this clip is why I grew up with a lifelong fear of robots.
EDIT: This video must have been made sometime between 1981 (when the first shuttle was launched) and 1988 (when this tape was from). The mystery continues!
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Holy crap this used to scare the **** out of me when I was little!!! Everytime I was watching Seseme Street and this would come on I'd change the channel lol.
This was always a favorite of my mom and I when I was little... she would come out of whatever room she was in and watch it with me and sing along with the song... I actually teared up watching it cuz it brought back such good memories
You know, I never found this short creepy, even as a kid. In fact, the film of the Voyager space probes at the end (I think the short is supposed to show the evolution of robots, which the Voyagers technically are) marked the moment where I first became aware that there were planets other than Earth. Considering I now work for NASA, that was a very important moment.
I was never creeped out at all by it, but I can see how others might have been.
When you look at it, the point of this film is showing how we went from dolls led to dolls with clockwork contraptions, which led to robots which led to rockets.
Does nybody anywhere know the name of the tune that is played on this film?
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"It's got a ruined eye"
"And there's a creepy doll
that always follows you!
It has a creepy eye
that's always open!"
—Jonathan Coulton
When you look at it, the point of this film is showing how we went from dolls led to dolls with clockwork contraptions, which led to robots which led to rockets.
Does nybody anywhere know the name of the tune that is played on this film?