I loved this movie and I love Art of Noise and this is absolutely the first time I've seen this brilliant video. Kinda leaves me breathless. Gotta watch again!
This was a fun find. I've been exploring the old Dragnet archive of radio stories and just felt like listening to Art of Noise out of the blue. I had no idea this existed. I have more to add to my research pile.
@ReaktorLeak I must admit, keying is so seamless that in many shots it could have been mistaken for a real deal. I really wonder how they did that in 1987. Then again, Rybczyński is a genius and professional animator...
@@PictureProductStudio I'm not even going to attempt to pronounce that name but i take your word on his genius 😅 great song so this was an 80's take on a 60's series dun da dun dun!! 🔍🚔 keep 80's music alive CHEERS .
i think this was a few years behind 'vidtoaster', and being so sympatico with their 'fairlight' audio synths (and fairlight branched off into a 'video synth' division mid-eighties - i got to play with one in college) - i'm betting it was a fairlight the production team played with. any case, this was one of the better 'off' movies of ackroyd, + it's got 'the hanks factor' - been a long time since i've watched it! it's one of the more worthy 'not remembered much' 80's flicks.
No clue what a "Video Toaster" is, but The Art of Noise was originally a project of the legendary Trevor Horn, and TAoN totally used a Fairlight CMI sampler. In fact, they (along with Peter Gabriel) were among the first to use it.
Anne Dudley went from Art of Noise to soundtrack composer with this one. Haven't seen this video since the 80s, but I do have the .45 (!) of this song somewhere. Great to see the Close to the Edit kid again. Her name is Sylwia.
Love it, but can't believe they ruined the ending by slapping ads on it. What a horrible thing to do to an Art of Noise video. I assume this was perpetrated by RU-vid, the same thing was done at the end of the Genesis Land of Confusion video. Gee, thanks RU-vid! P.S. My wife doesn't think You Tube put the ads on the video, she thinks it was done by whoever made the video. If anyone out there knows the answer, let me know. But I still love the video.
Sure, the instruments are computerized, but the fun of low-quality MIDI samples of real instruments is that it's up to how well a song is composed for it to wow.
Can you really consider 240p to be "nice quality" though? The only other official place to view the "Close (to the edit)" music videos in higher quality would be on the "(Who's Afraid of The) Art of Noise" DVD that's included on the 2011 CD reissue of the album. And besides, I'm pretty sure ZTT themselves own it and not China.
The girl is incredibly good at acting, she makes it look easy, but how she communicates through gestuality is unbelievable. And we know nothing of her.
If this the real Trevor Horn, Paul Morley or any of the memebers. NIce youtube site. You may be interested in my projects as well. I just like meeting up with cool musicians.
