Erin. Congrats to your dad. My friends and I saw this in about 1968 and loved it. We spent several days trying to make our own…needless to say, at 12 we lacked the patience and never ended up with more than about 20 seconds of film. But we had a great time!
@@megantindle9010 OMG so cool! I'm going to tell my dad. Ask him if he remembers Greg and Howard Ashe - Greg played the old man with the cane coming out of the bar near the beginning and I think was friends with all of those guys. I still really love this little film - so funny!
Everytime I watch this, there is some amazing attention to detail. Like when the "Cycles" finally decide to accelerate and their feet are off the ground... A couple frames at a time while they physically jump. Wonderful.
I remember seeing this on Night Flight back in the late 1980's. I was just a single digits kid back then, but my dad recorded it for us on the VCR one night when he was watching Night Flight. He used to do that if he saw a cool, artistic segment that wasn't too racy for us young kids to watch. That was a cool thing about growing up with our dad. He was always looking for ways to expose us to new and funny and creative weirdness. I have been looking for this film for years and just finally found it on here. I couldn't remember that it was called Vicious Cycles, so all this time I was just searching what I thought could be the right key words to surface it. It's so old and obscure, and just as awesome as I remember it from when I was probably 9 years old. I'm so glad I finally found this again! I can't wait to show my brother, sister, and of course, our dad!
Same story here. We were one of thirst people in my neighborhood to have a VCR and this on one of the original tapes we had back then. I was about the same age. really good stuff!
When I worked for Hughes Aircraft in Culver City, every Wednesday at noon you could eat your lunch in the theater and one of the movies was this one. I now have all three of Menville's shorts on 16mm. Classics!
This short aired before Star Wars Episode IV in 1975 in Anchorage Alaska, at the Polar Twin Theater. I must have seen it 4 or 5 times because it came on before Star Wars. It's a pretty great short video and makes for a nice memory.
I remember my grade 7 teacher telling us kids about this movie as one of the subjects he taught us was movie making. I never got to see it, but a quick search using 'stop motion motorcycles' lead me to this. Awesome! Now I get to see it 38 years after being told about it. Thankyou for the upload.
Back in the day I was director of a 16mm film circuit for a library network in Ohio and we loved Pyramid Films! I haven't seen this classic in decades and, please remember, there were no computer graphics back then. The best of the best was a film called The Wizard of Speed and Time. Check it out! Enjoy and regards.
I'm pretty sure this is a direct transfer from a good used 16mm print; note the occasional scratch and a splice at the end. Pyramid sold lots of prints of this film and its sequel BLAZE GLORY to colleges, public libraries, and 16mm rental outfits back around the same time you worked at Showtime. I remember "Showtime Shorts" too, they were great fun. Now all you get is endless promos.
Saw part of this in a Harley Davidson documentary celebrating their meteoric rise in the market in 86 . This is the first time I've seen it in it's entirety . Love it !!
its called stop animation, where you shoot one frame at a time, move the action a little and snap another frame, when played back normal you get a slight "jumpy effect". Nicley done for its time.
Wow! I actually remember seeing this as a kid in the early 80's on either HBO or Cinemax, in between feature presentations. I used to love these and HBO's Video Jukebox (itself a nice precursor to MTV, as well as a holdover for those in markets whose cable companies hadn't yet added MTV to their channel lineups).
As a kid in the 70s I'm pretty sure I watched this one with my friends several times at the local community centre during the school holidays. I always remembered it being called "Invisible Cykies, but probably had the name wrong
the first time i ate acid was in summer school when i was 16 and the teacher played this film. Can you imagine tripping balls for the first time and watching this!
The first (and just about only) time I saw this, it was being used as the video for the song "Sex on Wheelz" by My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult at the Video Bar in Dallas. Perfect fit. Love it.
I saw this movie projected on a Campground Garage wall in Eureka, MO. in 1981. The producers also made a western and a superhero movie using this same technique. But I can't remember the names .. Blaze Glory?? Captain Mom?? maybe someone else knows......
Digital? No. If you check out the date in the begining, (it was kind of fuzzy) it's between 1967 or 68. Digital video wasn't even a gleam in anyone's eye yet. Bill Gates and Steve Jobs were barely in high school when that clip was released.
I like the responses claiming this is digital as if stop motion has NEVER BEEN DONE before 2003. do some research and realize this is the type of stuff everyone today rips off. the world wasn't created 4 years ago. oh this is awesome!
They showed this in German TV 1985, it was for a video art festival, i recall. Never forgot this broadcast, another video showed a pair having sex on a car hood.
Tarentino meets Monty Python. Talk about great imagination. I wish there was more of that today instead of seeing the same kodak whores who consistently make the cover of magazines.
This is all but ruined by the awful music. The version they played on HBO many decades ago definitely wasn't accompanied by this grating soundtrack, and was far better for it. But thanks for uploading. I had no idea what it was called and searched "1970s motorcycle comedic short" and found it.
at least this video has more content than the bullshit - default - stop motion technique everyone and their grandma is using nowadays!!! how about that!!! a real film with stop motion....not a half baked vomit idea..
