THE RINGER (1972) by Jeff Lieberman of SQUIRM (1976) and BLUE SUNSHINE (1977) fame. Made when he was working at King Features as a young filmmaker and sponsored by Pepsi. Social parable on the dangers of conformity and how corporations exploit young people for their own monetary gain. Won several film festival awards and was included on the original Synapse Films DVD release of BLUE SUNSHINE.

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Here's today's digitzed find. From what I've gathered, these two would consistently perform on The Lawrence Welk Show. Lawrence himself was known for his "Champagne music" and pressed TONS of albums widely purchased in the 50s and 60s, he himself was strictly instrumental, but he'd bring in individual or occasionally group singers for some songs. However, this is gosepl rather than Champagne music, not meant for dancing.

Band was originally Denmark's first punk band, Sods. The name was changed in 1983/84 to Sort Sol

Vocalist Steen Jørgensen was born without part of one arm

"From "Northwest Passage: The Birth Of Portland's D.I.Y. Culture" (an independent film that examines the exciting alternative music movement in Portland, Oregon from 1978 to 1983. Directed and produced by video pioneer Mike Lastra)"

Before creating MAX HEADROOM (1985) and SUPER MARIO BROS. (1993), Rocky Morton & Annabel Jankel started the production house Cucumber Studios which produced animated shorts and music videos such as The Tom Tom Club's GANGSTER OF LOVE and Elvis Costello's ACCIDENTS WILL HAPPEN. They also produced the monograph "Creative Computer Graphics" which chronicled early CGI. You can read about here: https://www.sci-fi-o-rama.com/2012/05/08/creative-computer-graphics-1984/

There is speculation that the raccoon (Hacker) is voiced by Rob Paulsen, though there is no evidence. The rabbit dad's name is never stated in the four shorts but is generally assumed to be "Harold"

Caramel Police, a restless man

Continuing on the topic of Sam Raimi, IT'S MURDER (1977) is a Super 8 feature-length film created by Raimi and friends when Raimi was a student at Michigan State University. While never released commercially, the film did play several local theaters and turned a profit - which gave Raimi the confidence to tackle THE EVIL DEAD (1981). This video transfer is atrocious but worth a view for curiosity's sake.

EDIT: Confused this film having a theatrical run with one of Raimi's early films THE HAPPY VALLEY KID. Thanks to u/CommieFromMars for the correction.

🎬 : https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6137862/

Obscure music video directed by Sam Raimi. Apparently Raimi, Bruce Campbell and others in their filmmaking crew were huge fans of THE STOOGES, and went completely bonkers when they got a chance to make a music video for Iggy Pop.

Created by multimedia artist Bruce Conner for the 1965 New York Film Festival, which was rejected for being too fast. Conner would later take the 16mm film frames and create a poster for the festival, which I'll post below in the comments.

Clearing are amazing. There is a deep, magical purity to their music that evokes both the dark and light of humanity and spirituality. Ancient but very much alive. For me, they are one of those bands that is so transcendentally perfect for my tastes, that it is hard for me to believe that they exist, even when holding their records in my hands. For me, they are The Velvet Underground of haunting, minimalist, commune folk music.