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Welcome to the Machine - Animated Film

submitted by critical_d

1 decade 2 years 4 months 3 weeks ago

This amazing animation was originally projected behind Pink Floyd when they promoted the Animals album on their “In the Flesh” tour in 1977. It was directed by Gerald Scarfe who also worked on the album cover, tour, film and theatrical adaptation of The Wall .

Eventually the record label turned it into a music video and it can been seen from time to time on Vh1 Classics. Can you imagine what this was like to see screened back then and with this number being played live and loud by Pink Floyd?

It’s still mind-blowing. I’ve always loved this song, but this film gave me a new appreciation for it. The film is included in the new Wish You Were Here Immersion box set in a 5.1 surround mix.

- from Dangerous Minds

13 Comments

fantastic find.
*promote

Promoting this video and sending it back into the queue for one more try; last queued Sunday, December 4th, 2011 11:46am PST - promote requested by enoch.

I remember seeing it on MTV back in the late 80s when there was a huge PF surge due to the release of the Division Bell (which I didn't particularly care for in the end). Something really really unsettling about this video. It just creems me out for some reason and really really matches the feeling the song always left me with... just pure ennui.

Wow, I'd never seen that. Great find, thanks.

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petpeeved says...

Welcome to the Machine was the very first cassette I ever owned. I still vividly remember sitting in my room pressing play on my boombox for the first time and spending the next few hours just staring off into space listening to it over and over.

I often wonder how different my outlook on life would be if that first album experience was something else. It was that pivotal.

That was from 1975, so if it wasn't Welcome To The Machine, it woulda been Physical Graffiti by Zeppelin... or A Night At The Opera by Queen... or Rush Fly By Night...

Greatest Band of all time

It's *dead Jim.

This video has been declared non-functional; embed code must be fixed within 2 days or it will be sent to the dead pool - declared dead by lurgee.

Awarding eric3579 with one Power Point for fixing this video's dead embed code.

Official *backup=[...snipped...]

Added alternate embed code for this video - backup requested by Zawash.

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