Slow Bob in the Lower Dimensions (Feb. 2016 scan)

Henry Selick/The Residents 1991 pilot for animated series

[@sky44david]

A fantastic discovery of magnificent filmmaking beyond conventional animation/story telling!

[@Daniele-Manno]

Thanks for the best quality ever seen for this clip, Heather... Selick?! Now this totally looks like something else! Wonderful, undecypherable little creep. Too bad Henry never made it into an actual series, I wonder how beautiful, dreamlike and hauntingly weird it might have been. Still waiting for another film of his...

[@Daniele-Manno]

Also, is there any possibility to see any of his other short films, such as Seepass somewhen? Cheers.

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

@@Daniele-Manno Seepage was included on a DVD called "Giants' First Steps" along with another of Selick's early student work. www.animationshowofshows.com/products/giants-first-steps

[@reneastle8447]

If it did, that would be brilliant.

[@Daniele-Manno]

@@ChristopherSobieniak Thank you wholeheartedly!

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

@@Daniele-Manno Glad to help.

[@CatLives9]

I remember seeing this air on MTV when I was like 4-5 years old back in the early 90's. It has been seared in my memory ever since.

[@lucidu4euh]

Came here to say exactly this. For years, I thought it was some childhood fever dream, but I held some small hope that it was real

[@gabe_s_videos]

A lot of Slow Bob's animation seems to foreshadow how Henry would have Jack animated in Nightmare Before Christmas. Also, I love how his individual parts allow for squash and stretch in some shots.

[@Xorcist-Band]

Finally!!!! Thank you Heather! Big fan of Henrys and The Residents since forever! I worked on the Aeon Flux MTV series and remember seeing this about that time and ended up playing it at my nightclub in the industrial from time to time - people loved it!

[@lordofthegames6601]

I’d never thought that I’d witness a Tim Burton fever dream

[@davidkoenigsberg2885]

This short never looked better! I remember what some of the original elements looked like as Henry shot the flat animation on my camera. Besides the digital color correction, these new dust & scratch removal programs make a huge difference!

[@LFrench]

Man the singing resident is such a great voice actor, he should’ve done more

[@ThirdSpectrum]

Wow this is really beautiful animation. I love Henry Selick's work so much, it had such a specific flair to it.

[@nicholastosoni707]

MEEEEEEMORIIIIIEEEEEES... God, seeing this again just takes me back to when I had a VHS copy of the _Nightmare Before Christmas_ laserdisc's behind-the-scenes material. Too bad Disney had to cut most of it--including this--out for the DVD release.

[@halicarnassus834]

My Haunted early 90s Mares as a kid watchingthis on MTV, , Hello again.

[@japhyriddle]

Yes! I'm so glad this has been digitally scanned! Thank you.

[@Detman101]

Such fond memories...This came out around the same time my little sister was born. Lol...

[@bertfromseasamestreet]

Blessed movie

[@enkimerlin3209]

OMG!!!!! Saw this when I was 15 and have been looking for it forever!!!!!

[@OzzieAstaroth]

Very nice quality clip. I remember seeing this on MTV back in the day, and I thought it was really cool. I always wanted to see a follow up, but its been so long now, I doubt that can ever happen.

[@RicardoGaspariniLage]

So this once, more than 20 years ago, I think. Never forget it. Really great!

[@wickedfeylady]

Beautiful film, I wish there were more of them. Thank you, Heather.

[@emiliolira1563]

1:42 look closely at the frame and you will see the wire holding slow bob (henry selick) is practically visible.

[@aallbbeerrttggaarrcc]

Thank you thank you thank you for this quality. You made my day!

[@Dimestime1]

LOVE this! Wonderfully reminiscent of Forbidden Zone and Pee Wee's Playhouse.

[@andyresto8013]

Awesome to watch and discover where the voice samples from some of the interludes in the Residents Demons Dance Alone album come from. “Over here Bob, times up for now”

[@Skullkan6]

Some of the audio for this was used in the segues in Demons Dance Alone.

[@Pariahmary]

"Over here Bob"

[@gonzalovsc]

This work is so astonishing, so intense, that it cannot get any dislike!

[@konami1979]

It's cool to see the film that impressed Tim Burton enough to hire Selick to direct, "The Nightmare Before Christmas."

[@Charles12]

They had already worked together in disney animation and I'm very sure Burton knew how experienced Selick was in stop-motion. But if this was the final mark of approval, I'm not surprised.

[@vidverbic]

amazing

[@TiagoSeiler]

This is fantastic quality (both the work itself and the scan). Thanks for uploading, say hi to Henry for us :-)

[@rommix0]

Seems like Henry Selick has a thing for scissors. If you've seen the movie Twice Upon a Time he uses them in a sequence as well. EDIT (3/2/2024): I just realized he did the same thing for Monkeybone when the dog is having a nightmare with cats about to cut his balls off.

[@mr.pendleton7121]

So let me try and understand this show. This was going to be a series about a man who travels to different dimensions to help other people out, while back at home his conjoined twin sisters harass him.

[@elwoodjacobs4353]

Pretty much. Also, in his dimension, his back is malformed, which is why his posture is so awkward, but in the other dimensions, from what I gather, he can stand up straight & walk regularly.

[@fuckenps3]

From IMDb: "Nightmarish pilot about Robert Potemkin, a man with deformed back, who lives in the attic of his family's house. One night, his siamese sisters plan a prank on him, but sentient lizards send him to a parallel world to save photo-people."

[@ManuelMotion]

Absolutely stunning!! Thanks.

[@thehonorablereverendaddiso1943]

The Residents?!

[@fusionaddict]

Somehow in all the times I've watched this I missed that the members of Osseus Labyrint were the main cast. RIP Hannah :,(

[@tonymarshall3978]

The obvious question is what even would the show have been like?? I can see it as a bunch of 5 minute cartoons like Aeon Flux

[@tudovaimudar2320]

Incrível, 1997. Mtv

[@ziweiyuan]

Today Slow Bob plays the monster on Stranger Things.

[@DoktorWoron]

Gothic

[@mumumumu666]

interesting

[@clarkzimmerman1653]

Warning this gave me a seziure

[@shizzymack9573]

I am

[@lukerankin4681]

I'm confused about the idea of MTV showing music videos. I thought it was a garbage reality tv station.

[@brandonspain12345]

MTV stands for Music Television