Lost Media that lived up to the hype

Lost media or not, to me The Electric Piper is honestly quite enjoyable and I'm glad it was found. I'd never heard of it but when it surfaced it turned out to be something that really appealed to me. I love '60s music and culture. The songs recreate the sound of the era very well... perhaps too well, which is why the movie was lost for so long.

Cracks and the Clock Man originally aired before my time so I certainly have no childhood memories of them, but I can understand why they would have stuck with people who saw them as kids. I was terrified by similar things at that age.

forlornjackalope

Yeah, like I said though, from what I seen of "Dino Island" (I believe that was the title, it's been years since I saw it) it wasn't hugely terrible either. The fact that they could get so many, frankly, MASSIVE stars like the voice of BART SIMPSON and Mark Fucking Hamill to be in the movie tells me something must have been going on behind the scenes beyond the nonsensical "LOL it's a Scientology conspiracy!" blarney thrown around on some internet speculation forums. My best guess, looking at the concept art I've seen, is that they genuinely did have some good ideas, good resources (outside of animation) and good music and so they...in essence tricked people into thinking they knew what they were doing.

It's even within reason they did, to a degree, know what they were doing but when it came to animation whoever they hired to do it failed so miserably their entire company imploded under the pressure. Which is sad really but hey, for want of a nail...

forlornjackalope

That's the weird part...

I only know what I've read and seen online, and as I mentioned the general..."theory", using the term loosely, revolves around some kind of conspiracy to launder money by the Church of Scientology. And when the best theory anyone can come up with sounds like the plot of a Simpsons episode something is amiss.

I have yet to see any kind of actual explanation, save for the fact that the actual STARS in the movie were broadcasting what can only be called Kickstarter campaigns via phone. I believe actual recordings of the cast asking for donations are known to exist, including the chick who voices Bart introducing hers with Bart's voice of all things, and then asking for a donation! It appears then, they got their money through some kind of legit donations, and possibly most or all of it went to hiring voice talent and paying for the music. If that's the case, then it explains why they went with such a cheap CGI team...another possibility is that the CGI was done in-house by someone who wrote the movie, possibly as a showcase for their own "talent". That Colin Slater guy who directed it?

Either way I can see, using simply the music--which includes Peabo Bryson of all people--and the voice talent which has Jodi Benson, Paige O'Hara, Nancy Cartwright and Mark Hamill in it...yeah I can see where they spent the money. Possibly they blew it all on the music and voices? The part that makes that seem unlikely is again the concept art looks rather good actually, so they must have had some kind of plan. And if it was a "scam" it was stunningly expansive for a simple conjob. Or like I figure, they assumed they knew what they were doing and, well, they didn't to put it mildly. They were so arrogant they failed to actually SHOW the movie to anyone, during production, to see if anyone would compliment the animation...or if they would recoil in shock and run screaming from the room, like current day audiences tend to...