The ABC (or Australian Broadcasting Corporation), used to play film clips to take up some of the space left in programming due to their not running ads. Usually there was one or two five minute clips to take the station up to the hour and for a new show to start.
Where do I begin?
These ... were ... awesome.
I can't remember them too clearly. One was a swedish (I think) group playing in a weird clay house, with young ladies dancing with ribbons while a skivvy beard dude played a variety of instruments.
Another was a titan rocket (I think it was) taking off, with the camera mounted on the outside recording the separation of stages with some techno music backing it.
There was Tusk of course, by Fleetwood Mac - and Sky playing on a airport tarmac in the middle of nowhere.
But the best of all was this film clip of Charlie Chaplain and some others chasing each other around in mini hovercrafts - all to the tune of 'the Sailor's Hornpipe'.
It may be the best f_ck off film clip I have seen in my entire life.
A brief skim across the web has revealed it is most likely by Mike Oldfield. Anyone know any different or know where I could see the clip again?
Man it was kewl.
God I love the ABC. Best f_cking TV station on God's green earth.
Typical the libs want to take it out back and shoot it.
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Don't forget the great one of the hot air balloons drifting over the landscape, set to some classical theme, and - my favourite! - highlights of riding by motorcycle legend Mick Doohan (I think, anyway), probably at Phillip Island, ending with him totally losing it and sliding across the road. Awesome. That was set to some instrumental rock piece - sounded like Satriani, but probably wasn't. God, my memory sucks. Anyway, I remember, and I loved 'em.
ReplyDeleteActually it was Garry Rafferty's Baker Street with the awesome sax solos.
ReplyDeleteI don't remember those ones at all !
ReplyDeleteMan, and you think your memory is bad.
Unless you're just messing with me...
Definitely Mike Oldfield. I would tell you what the precise tracks are, but for some reason the entirely legitimate copy of the Mike Oldfield Elements CD that I have seems to have gotten the tracks all mixed and muddled up. But they're both on there.
ReplyDeleteI think the dancing maidens is Portsmouth, and the Apollo mission footage is Incantation Part 4.
Now, to figure out why my CD is so f***ed in the head...
The dancing maidens are definitely Portsmouth - I downloaded it off iTunes on the weekend!
ReplyDeletePlus there was also Sat On Your Lap by Kate Bush (lots of mad characters dancing on a darkened stage, clowns on roller skates, etc) and Shock the Monkey by Peter Gabriel. And something with Shout and a puppet egg with legs which I wish I could remember what it was.
WIN television needed those fillers this morning. Cricket finished at 11.45am, now they have f**cked up their programming.
ReplyDeleteI was very afraid of the "ma-num-a-nup" filler film clip they used to do. with the ma-num-a-nup monster comming in from all sides of the screen.
My favourite one was the Fleetwood Mac one.
I've just remembered another one of these - an animated clip with a singing frog, for Love Is All (which my Googling indicates was by someone called Roger Glover, from the album The Butterfly Ball).
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