DESCRIPTION:
Rare Residents music video, a treated film clip of sci-fi classic with Residents music , a presentation video to sell one of their ideas - Science Fiction's Greatest Hits. Never took off due to licensing issues - the idea of treating old film clips and backing with new audio and music finally came to fruition with Timmy clips.

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from tikitom9:
Thank you for your interest in this work. It brings back good memories. Tom Curtis (That's me) and Monte Thompson did all the artwork on this at the San Francisco Production Group in San Francisco. The Residents brought us the soundtrack and we storyboarded the piece based on that. We scanned the film and painted choice frames using a mainframe graphics system called "Images" built by Computer Graphics Lab. This was the same system used to create the well known ATT globe icon. The fire effects were done using a program called cycling and several scripts were written from scratch to add some of the effects. We edited it with editor Don Ahrens using a pre 3D graphics system called ADO to move the saucers. The piece was used in The Residents multimedia game "Freak Show" and I believe it is shown in a theater in one of the tents. It looks pretty cheesy today but at the time it was pretty advanced.