MiningmanI think just his mouth moved when speaking.
That's the one ... Synchro-Vox. It was an interesting idea, as animating mouth motion was a difficult thing involving multiple drawn frames, so dutching in 'scaled' film for this was a clever idea as opposed to, say, the kinds of weird thing in the Joe Oriolo Felix the Cat cartoons. Interestingly enough it's the eyes that are more important to capture if you are concerned with fine detail, as the folks who made the Polar Express movie found to their dismay...
Another show that perhaps I shouldn't have loved as much as I did was Space Ghost. And it took a while, but I started laughing hard at the rebooted Space Ghost, Coast to Coast show that lampooned that whole Japanese-inspired genre.
Ok... I vividly remember Space Angel but not the others. I think just his mouth moved when speaking. It was a strange effect.
You had to be at an impressionable age just at the right time, when some of the worst-animated shows of all time were coming out: Space Angel, Astro Boy, 8th Man and Gigantor. Some of these had surprisingly good writing and plots (for kids like me who loved Stratemeyer formula stuff, anyway) but even with willing suspension of disbelief, some of the drawing and continuity ... is almost unwatchable now.
Conversely, my very early love of SF and therefore reading and writing stem in no small part from these.
Overmod-- Born to soon to care department, but I got it now!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8_Man
MiningmanIt did not take long for this to happen. Life could be just grand. Antelope steaks, geez. We do have Caribou up here, prized meat by hunters. https://ia801903.us.archive.org/BookReader/BookReaderImages.php?zip=/14/items/canadianpacificr00mont/canadianpacificr00mont_jp2.zip&file=canadianpacificr00mont_jp2/canadianpacificr00mont_0052.jp2&scale=2&rotate=0 https://ia801903.us.archive.org/BookReader/BookReaderImages.php?zip=/14/items/canadianpacificr00mont/canadianpacificr00mont_jp2.zip&file=canadianpacificr00mont_jp2/canadianpacificr00mont_0053.jp2&scale=2&rotate=0 https://archive.org/details/canadianpacificr00mont/page/n3
Life could be just grand. Antelope steaks, geez. We do have Caribou up here, prized meat by hunters.
Rocky Mountaineer holdimg up the traditions of fine dining.
Never too old to have a happy childhood!
Overmod-- You have me baffled by your post. Have no idea what you are on about!
An 8th man is a rugby forward whose position is at the back of a set scrum and holds the ball with his feet in the scrum until the scrum-half calls for it.
MiningmanI'm an Ape Man
And he's an 8th Man
complete with, in this episode. a character from another forum!
(Gee,do I get to be Professor Genius?? Or Bob Brilliant from Gigantor???)
I'm an Ape Man
"Waterloo Sunset" by the Kinks was pretty popular and became a sort of anthem for the end of steam working into Waterloo station, which was the last steam in passenger working into London itself.
Peter
I have not the slightest idea why this, from the same album, wasn't more popular. As I recall Alison liked it.
Sorry Mod-man, while I remember The Kinks I just don't remember "Victoria."
Hey, some days I can't remember if I went to the bathroom in the morning! I'm sure I did, but...
It did not take long for this to happen.
See the conquering hero comes
I used to sing that tune out loud all day long. Eventually I had forgotten about it until now.
Flintlock76I guess it didn't get any air time here in the US.
I have no idea where you were in '69 but this was the only song from Arthur that made the charts, and the first Kinks song since 1966. They sure played it on WNEW. Good piece of Ray Davies sarcasm.
I certainly enjoyed the 'dystopian' albums with songs concerning the decline of the Empiyah (others coming to mind being Selling England By The Pound and Stormwatch) right along with the ones celebrating British musical heritage.
Interesting song by The Kinks, never heard it before. I guess it didn't get any air time here in the US. Understandable I suppose, it wouldn't mean anything to us here.
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