Apple (1970)

No - not THAT Apple - but a Bell Telephone film that is part DADA, part Freakout, and part info-doc. Definitely a strange one.... and this is the stuff we used to see in elementary school! Far out! I transferred this reel with my Eiki Telecine, so enjoy!
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[@Petertronic]

Substances were consumed in the making of this film! Thanks for transferring it.

[@magickmarck]

This is awesome. Acid really soaked into art and film all thru the 70s.

[@Fightosaurus]

Did this curiously-titled gem inspire a certain computer company founder? The artistic and admirable techno hippie ideals seem oddly parallel, thats for sure.

[@soupwizard]

Who knows - maybe a young Steve Jobs saw this and it imprinted on his mind, and when it came time to name the company company, his unconscious thought of this and his conscious thought of the apple farm he had just visited.

[@KeritechElectronics]

I love the animation - it's simple, psychedelic and interesting. Funky music too.

[@Vintech64]

Yeah I saw this in school. This was a tame acid trip for the kiddies. I remember films that made even less sense than this one. The teacher would play these films while they would nap at their desks.

[@cgoad]

Hi Fran. Another 4F production - a "Fran's Fabulous Film Find". What a terrific visual and sonic trip. Loved it. As always, thank you Fran!

[@goodun2974]

The ghosts of Delia Derbyshire and the other "Sisters With Transistors" (a documentary about women composing electronic music) live large in this film.

[@ChrisLeeW00]

Her stuff is really good!

[@lurkersmith810]

Well, thank you for that reference that took me on a side track from which I thought I'd never return! (No, really, thank you for mentioning Delia Derbyshire.)

[@goodun2974]

@@lurkersmith810 , opening up rabbit holes for unwary KZbinr's is a specialty of mine! 😁

[@ScottGrammer]

Ugo Torricelli, who created this film, is a somewhat famous filmmaker. Not famous enough for me to avoid having to look him up, though.

[@kathrynlittle2523]

I wonder whom Bell projected the audience for this film to be.

[@Enigma758]

I love this video and I will be watching it again.

[@ChrisCromwellHP]

This film is really heavy! A groovy viewing!! But what a drag I only got the notification to watch this yesterday; 4 days after the fact. I finally watched it the next day after. ☮️✌️

[@mbp1646]

Fran that was freaking awesome. We could do with a bit more 1970's psychedelia. Even though my TV remote probably has more computing power than the massive twinkling LED creations they envisaged back then somehow the future machines they envisaged seem more awesome than actually turned out.

[@Donna230]

I could have sworn it was going to be a commercial for Apple. Ha! I enjoyed the music and visuals.

[@timbient_ambient]

Digging the intro music and visuals. Thanks Fran.

[@ChrisCromwellHP]

This film is really heavy stuff! A groovy viewing!

[@gregorythomas333]

Damn...need to drop a tab or two and watch this again :D

[@nkronert]

Spoiler: this is not about the computer company with the same name 🙂

[@orionfl79]

**finger-snaps** Groovy daddio! ^_^

[@itsjustrobby]

Fran in the lab -- workin' and doin' all the things! Interestin Video! and yes I also like my phone flavored with bell.

[@wmrg1057]

Far out man. Haven't been on a trip like that since the 60s.

[@fepatton]

I believe the correct term here is “trippy”. 😂

[@wellyup7879]

Trippy. Can't say I learned much - but a cool piece of art.

[@jondhuse1549]

Reminds me somewhat of the film "Allegro Non Troppo", directed by Bruno Bozzetto, and staring Maurizio Nichetti (if you haven't seen it, it's worth a watch).

[@electrosoundaust]

Great film, a cynical response to Walt Disney's Fantasia as only the Italians could do it. The evolution of creatures on a pristine planet from the slime in a disposed of Coke bottle is pure genius.

[@chrisa2735-h3z]

I love the 1970s animation style in this film! Classy!😍

[@christopherneufelt8971]

This is more of MKUltra than documentary. Many thanks Fran that you share AND TO THE ILLUMINATY THAT CREATED IT: SIN TODAY, REPEND TOMORROW!

[@-jeff-]

I wondered why the director Ugo Torricelli's name sounded familiar. He invented the Triptych film system and other cinematic innovations.

[@origamimambo545]

Wow. Thank you!

[@ReginaDailey]

I love the inventiveness of these old films.

[@mistermatix8241]

They love that flying bird animation! Some groovy stuff there, some almost akin to the infamous "tunnel scene" in Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory

[@smartelectriccar]

Computer animation in 1970. Programmed by punch card. Or hand drawn animation. You be the judge.

[@jasondownard7623]

Trippy....

[@JLowe-uu8lr]

Ohh my repairing leaders on film and repairing sprockets too use to do that a lot !=8)

[@wkgmathguy218]

The narrator sounds familiar.... is it the lady who played Aunt Clara on bewitched?

[@brianbieniowski2777]

You really are doing a public service, so excellent!

[@davidg4288]

Well this oughta drive the xtians crazy! Thanks for saving this from oblivion, not something you would see funded by a major communications company nowadays.

[@Robert08010]

As soon as I saw the name of the narrator, Hermoine Gingold, I knew this would be interesting. I think my favorite bit was re-framing Satan as a marketing executive. No wonder Douglass Adams believed they "would be the first up against the wall when the revolution came."

[@alanoneuser]

Did this movie just tell me to overthrow God? I dig it.

[@CJT3X]

Landlords

[@goodun2974]

@@CJT3X , organized religions *are* landlords.

[@mpetry912]

definitely will not see this one anywhere else !

[@cosmiclettuce]

Trippy. The images are so non-sequitur! Definitely a keeper. Great with some hashish

[@fredchatham6680]

Always fascinating content.

[@fredchatham6680]

Groovy music, way out visuals, I'm having a flashback. I have a FISH-HEAD. Cool . . .

[@CarlosGomez-vt9pk]

Those trains at 3:41 look like the unpainted metal brass HO scale trains. The one in the background is my favorite. I like the cylindrical smokestacks, not the conical ones.

[@johnpenner5182]

love it! thx fran! ✨

[@CJT3X]

We love the landlord slander

[@renowden2010]

Hermione Gingold was an icon of cinema

[@bonemar66]

The mayor's wife from the Music Man movie narrating this psychedelic piece is unexpected.

[@UpLateGeek]

I have no idea what that was supposed to be about, but I think it was ... groovy? Honestly, I can't imagine being a creative type at a telecommunications company, going to my boss and explaining to them I want to make this. Unless it's preceded by "Have you tried acid?" (and obviously, said acid).

[@Vintech64]

I have an old analog system for transferring old super 8 film with audio, to a format that is easy to put to a digital format. You would have to set everything up and leave the house, so there was no chance of tremors in the video....

[@TheGreatAtario]

That was the strangest ad I've ever seen

[@jmiskinis]

I was expecting a video containing some early "Apple Computer" graphics, and possibly some of the background information about the early stages of the computer design, back when Steve Wozniak first realized that he could generate "colors" and "graphics" on a TV screen, if he "got the timing just right", as he has stated in the past.

[@WDCallahan]

Cool vid. I'm leaving the house now, but I'm just gonna let your channel and ads autoplay until I get back. :)

[@danielpirone8028]

Check out the “so bad it’s good” movie called The Apple - and the history of those who made it. Bonkers

[@shravanator]

Trippy film! Is this available in the public domain?

[@scottthomas6202]

The song " Baroque Hoedown" comes to mind... No one claimed copyright on every little sound?

[@zmmj2024]

I feel like this should be watched while on LSD... So 70's

[@skyline1skyline115]

probably imbibing a similar substance when they made it

[@lucyanncavanagh8356]

Ooh err, it’s pretty much full on the old school dippy trippy animation but that music was actually wee bit too much discord.

[@smartelectriccar]

Music by Manfred Mann and ELO

[@Leafy-trees]

Nice!

[@ApoplecticDialectics]

I can't feel my face.

[@S-CB-SL-Animations]

🎶 When I'm with you... but I love it. But I love it. 🎶

[@GordonHudson]

Did someone put LSD in my tea?

[@yohoyoho13]

The Youngs: Where are memes!?!? Where's the CGI, the explosions, the jump scares? Save us Michael Bay! The Olds: Awww yeah! The good stuff!! I'm gonna mainline this.

[@kez963]

I wish all of the colors stayed on this film 😅

[@pgreenawalt]

I think my third eye opened a bit…

[@bobweiram6321]

What happened? We were so much more creative back then in art, music and even the sciences.

[@MM.]

The more geometric scenes remind me of John Whitney's work

[@cbsolo5628]

Great film. Too. Ad you couldn't "paint out" the cinch line seen 8n the opening of the film.

[@LanceHall]

Late 60s psychedelia.

[@doogie812]

It was not even a good advertisement. For a while it was thinking that would have been the day to go to school on acid. However, the end turned out to be a bad trip...

[@OneSwitch]

Cool.

[@CARLiCON]

6:12 name that celeb

[@hurrycraneannie8146]

They vere all on acid in the 70'!!!! :-)

[@johnwsimpson3153]

World population 3.6 billion then, it says. Now nearly 8 billion.

[@hotpuppy1]

Put that on double speed before taking your acid trip!

[@davidblair8843]

😵‍💫 Holy crap dude what kind of drugs were they on when they made this film?

[@nickdiamond7595]

Though I can smoke weed legally these days, this video requires shrooms🥳

[@imark7777777]

well That's not where I thought that was going interesting

[@mikem9403]

Yay! Hermione Gingold

[@katadam2186]

Clearly out H.R. Pufnstuf

[@flossflink]

it's no wonder we did drugs

[@BixbyConsequence]

Delightfully subversive.