Post by fleischerfan96 on Dec 15, 2019 0:56:21 GMT
Hey everyone,
I had seen the "Crack Master" short long before BlameitonJorge posted about it earlier today, and I knew that it was an important piece of Lost Media to the community, but I had no idea about it's mysterious origins.
Any theories as to why its creation is so shrouded in mystery? Personally, my gut always goes to the most unexciting reason, such as some sort of weird copyright stipulation, but now that I think about it, it just makes no sense. Why would such an obscure animation studio have that sort of copyright control over their work?
My most exciting theory has to do with the interview from the cartoon's voice actor in the BIOJ vid. She said that a mysterious woman in white with a hippie name was watching her during the recording. Perhaps the video was the product of one of those bizarre New Age cults that was popping up in the seventies? They were very prevalent in that era, particularly in California, where the short was made. The short also has a sort of weird New Age Philosophy vibe to it ("he destroyed himself trying to be mean") and embraces a sort of surrealism very popular to those types of groups. Perhaps this cult formed an animation studio to make indoctrination videos for kids, started making short clips to sell to Sesame Street to test the waters, and then when Sesame Street found out about this, got embarrassed an immediately tried to stamp out any memory of this clip or its origins? I know that's a bizarre theory that makes no sense, but it's the best I got.
What do you guys think?
Here's the vid in case you guys haven't seen it yet:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSFY4k7KeQI
I had seen the "Crack Master" short long before BlameitonJorge posted about it earlier today, and I knew that it was an important piece of Lost Media to the community, but I had no idea about it's mysterious origins.
Any theories as to why its creation is so shrouded in mystery? Personally, my gut always goes to the most unexciting reason, such as some sort of weird copyright stipulation, but now that I think about it, it just makes no sense. Why would such an obscure animation studio have that sort of copyright control over their work?
My most exciting theory has to do with the interview from the cartoon's voice actor in the BIOJ vid. She said that a mysterious woman in white with a hippie name was watching her during the recording. Perhaps the video was the product of one of those bizarre New Age cults that was popping up in the seventies? They were very prevalent in that era, particularly in California, where the short was made. The short also has a sort of weird New Age Philosophy vibe to it ("he destroyed himself trying to be mean") and embraces a sort of surrealism very popular to those types of groups. Perhaps this cult formed an animation studio to make indoctrination videos for kids, started making short clips to sell to Sesame Street to test the waters, and then when Sesame Street found out about this, got embarrassed an immediately tried to stamp out any memory of this clip or its origins? I know that's a bizarre theory that makes no sense, but it's the best I got.
What do you guys think?
Here's the vid in case you guys haven't seen it yet:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSFY4k7KeQI
