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- Al Jarnow's "Cosmic Clock," from PBS's 3-2-1 Contact. A complete DVD of Jarnow's films for PBS, as well as his independent work is available through the Numero Group: www.numerogroup...
From the early 1970s through the 1990s, Jarnow made films for various Children's Television Workshop programs including 3-2-1 Contact, Electric Company, and Sesame Street, as well as a variety of other experimental projects. He is a painter, educator, museum designer, and software developer.
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I was about 20 years old when my partner & I did the soundtrack for this one. We had the storyboards only (comic book style pix) to work from. This was supposed to run much longer but CTW only allowed 2 minutes. he speed Freaked us out too! Sorry about the nightmares guys. We had nightmares making it! Vintage ARP 2600 synthesizer.
Hats off to ARP
I used to watch 321 contact all the time growing up. This short piece stuck with me all these years, but I thought about it the other day because I was talking about the passage of time with my wife. I searched for this clip and for the first time in more than 30 years I get to see it. Thank you for posting.
I've been looking for this for a while. Fascinated me as a kid.
I love this animation - it was probably the best segment 3-2-1 Contact ever showed. Thanks so much for posting it.
ah..one of my fav clips from that show...
we should bring it back.. kids these days dont know what they missed out on..
(the bloodhound gang in particular)
This was always my favorite clip from 3-2-1 Contact. Tom Perri, you and the rest of the folks that worked on this and the other CTW shows (Sesame Street, Electric Company, etc.) inspired and educated an entire generation. Thank you.
What an amazingly done animation! I choose to find it beautiful but my I certainly understand that others find it terrifying.
OMG.. thank you so much for posting this, I've been wanting to see this for years and years. This video actually sorta gave me nightmares because I didn't understand this is only a possibility after thousands of years.
Glorious and terrifying. It's the mounting excitement in the narrator's voice that always got me... Also, Boards of Canada needs to create an entire album based on this short; it's right up their street!
One of my favorite animated short of all time....I saw it once when I was a kid, and remembered it always. One thing though ...I wouldve loved to see him take this further, like to when the sun dies, or the universe ends.
I remember another segment from 3-2-1 Contact that terrified me and showed the sun becoming a red giant, but I haven't found it on youtube yet.
I hoped the 3-2-1 Contact short would come up soon. It was the most memorable due to its bizarre nature. The future buildings look interesting, but it is troubling that humans suddenly disappear after 10,000 years.
Been looking for this clip for "100 million years." Thanks!
Wow, I totally remember this...I think it's from the first season, 1980. Very cool.
this reminds me of a scene from the 1960 film H.G. Wells' the Time Machine!
@amperro It occurs around 10,000 years, where a solitary cube sits as a sentinel upon a hill, perhaps as an outpost of a humanity that has already colonized and spread across the solar neighborhood, for scientific purposes. The cube also seems to change in size and shape before it shoots up into the sky, illustrating how strange the technology of the far future would seem to us primitives.
In addition to my earlier comment, this also reminds me of "The Time Machine."
That's an ambitious piece of work. Lotta work!
always loved this one...
Wow that was trippy
This scared the holy hell out of me as a kid.
Man, that was cool. Always kind of reminded of the 'fast-forward' sequence from The Time Machine (the novel, not that movie with what's-her-name and the cliff-dwelling Eloi). Maybe I'm weird, but while some folks have been creeped out by it, I rather liked the 'god's-eye' view-- Although that end bit, with the fade into dark and stars before the fade back in, is kinda eerie under the right circumstances. ;)
This video has been here 12 years ago
this blew my 11 year old mind
My three year old is hooked on this now. He asked for "The Boy with the watch".
Just one word:
Wooooow.
I saw this for the first time when I was about 12 and it blew my mind!
I was searching for cosmic hopper clock in minecraft and this shows up. Nice
And on that unsettling note, we don't see any animals or plants either. I know the point of the short is to explain geological changes (and, thus, has to take a sort of "We Are As Mayflies" point of view), but they could have thrown in a line of narration or two saying how life is going on.
Anyway, very cool short. Thanks for sharing!
This video is one of the first I remember and in a way similar to watching "Things to Come" late one night in the early 80s.
They all went into space after that.
And by the time 1 billion years comes around the sun will have grown so large that it will be hard for life to continue on planet Earth because of the heat.
Pretty much. People forget our sun is still expanding.
Makes you grateful that time seems to go as slow as it does.
I do remember watching that as a kid.
Anyone notice at 1:23 the small building on the far hill that lifts off into the sky?
good eye
I saw it, although it looked more like an elevator.
Yup....wonder if they ran out of resources or something?
Poor building, it's looking for another planet to rob its precious foundation!
I certainly hope so.
I thought it was because there was some sort of space ship that launched as the announcer said "10,000" years. I could never figure out what that object was...
I should show this to my science teacher.
Cities rise and fall...
@TokyoXtreme There's always reincarnation
@astridkitty1212 Dolphins would probably be among the first.
I agree with all the positive, inspired comments on here. This is the most classic, memorable segment on the series. It should be remade on a huge budget by modern, professional animators. This, R Crumb's "A Short History," Thomas Cole's "Course of Empire," and the rephotography of William Christenberry all inspired me greatly throughout my life.
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I love the asymmetrical pyramids at 1:16... that was the sickest city, and the one I'd want to live in. Do I have to wait around until 3190 or something?
9 years, the town should almost be a city now
@@bitrexgm This was first shown in 1980, so the town has been a city for about thirty years now. (Because at ten years, the town became a city.)
Hey little kiddies, everything's gonna be alright. Just keep watchin' Sesame Street...
Technically this was aired on 3-2-1 Contact, which was aimed at the older kids.
Totally rad.
I'm hoping for a future where human and nonhuman animals speak without any disconnection, the Future Interspecies Age. That' why I've been working my whole life with like-minded people to turn the tide in this direction.
I'm sure you're not alone! I think Zootopia might be what happens if animals managed to evolve up to our way of life.
And in the end, the kid's just like WHAT THE FUCK JUST HAPPENED?!
The first time I saw this, I almost had a heart attack!
For some reason, this is a little...unsettling.
This used to scare me as a child. I think its bc the cities rise and fall and then completely disappear. I always wondered what happened to the people!
This high speed approach is basically how fast I play certain lots in my Sims 2 game.
utterly, utterly terrifying
This is what I believe Hell looks like.
Cool
@GanChan6500 IKR?
321 Contact brung me here
1:20 to 1:25. Something lifts off into space. Maybe it's the last of humanity?
@astridkitty1212 We all want that.
I don't quite understand the meaning of this cartoon though it is quite interesting.
When’s the next ice age??
28th November
1:24 Abandoning the planet 🌏?
It's cool, but it was Nightmare Fuel for me too...
Don't blink.
I made this comment a while ago, but I thought that some of you should see it.
Know that we do not last in this world. Our days are numbered. Life is too short. There will come a time where you will be gone. It might be tomorrow, or it might be later; you never know. How worthy are we? We do not live in this world forever. We will eventually leave this world. What is our goal? Each time counts. What is the point of wasting a time of your life? No matter how smart we are, or how much we try to be, in the end, we're all gonna leave anyway. Is it useless, or are we gonna use all of our knowledge and experiences after life? Everything in life is temporary, or not everything?
I think that you should do what you want as long as you harm no one. I'm glad that there's great freedom and rights these days compared to before. You are already lucky enough to have a life. Whatever you do, you're still gonna leave this world. I don't think that what ever you do while you're still breathing matters after life, but I don't know what after life is like. It's like your soul is visiting this world, and then leaving your life someday. We are all visitors in this world making memories and experiences that will be gone when we're gone, I guess. The thing is, we don't know what happens next, so we can't really prepare for the after life. Are we gonna permanently disappear, go to heaven, reincarnate, or something else?
No matter what happens, time goes on. It waits for no one, but I guess not unless you are a god, or someone that controls time. Why make life so complicated? I remember that the marginal benefit should be higher than the marginal cost, but it depends on the people, I guess. Anyway, If you really think about the big picture, you know that you will be gone. Everyone knows it. It happens. It's scary thinking about it, which is probably a reason why we don't have a big perspective of life. No one lasts in this world forever, not that I know of. If someone do lasts forever, then someone will have plenty more time, right? What is the purpose of life; why do we live? Why are we here? What is our purpose? I know that God created us to take care of His creations, but Adam and Eve did a sin, so they were sent to Earth. Where is the garden; is it in heaven, or is heaven somewhere else? What happened before God created things? Where did He come from? What is He? I have a feeling I'm not supposed to ask these questions, and not go further, but I'm curious. I don't want to lose my faith, but it's unexplainable. We should be thankful because He created us. There's just a time where we are curious. How did it happen? Sometimes we need more evidence to believe. Nothing is impossible though. It's probably logical that there are lots of different dimensions. We haven't gone to the end of the universe, and there's probably even no end. There's probably life somewhere else other than here on earth. Magic probably exist, but no one has ever really proven it scientifically. The possibilities are endless.
Going back to the topic. We are visitors. Look at the big picture. I don't think that you really are wasting anything. Time goes on. The world of our specie might be gone one day, but really so what? Time waits for no one. Everything is really not a big deal for all people, except if you are probably a god. What is life, before life, and after life? Is it worthy for us to know? Should we know? If you really change your perspective to something like this, looking at the big picture, it really changes the way you think. It kinda makes sense.
"This little globe, which is no more than a giant dot, spins through space the same as countless other globes, and we are lost in this immense vastness. Mankind, about 5 feet of height, is unquestionably a rather small thing in all of creation" (Voltaire).
What did I just watch
Darn impateint dog doesn't even last a minute
LOL.
I suppose it was for the best, he'd already be a skeleton in a decade's time.
Always thought it was a nice detail to see the dog was gone at the end.
How strange that we thought that there would be a future.
Maybe they just never built any more cities there.
@JMcH
but not before he balds
Well, looks like that kid with the timer wasted his life.
Is that Dick Cavett narrating?
No. Not quite