In the same year, 1976, the German firm Neoplan sent an articulated double-decker touring bus across the USA, outfitted as a rolling hotel with room for 12 passengers. this was done to show what was possible with buses (not quite the Big Bus, but close).
I love how the roof at the front barely clears the top of the door in the building, but when we see it parked outside near the end, the rear of the bus has a big observation bubble that would never cleared it and was actually missing when it was driven out.
If you look closely at the roofline of the rear half of the bus as it exits the hangar, there is a slight dip after the second window, and there is an air scoop after the sixth window. The air scoop is present and correct on the top when the observation bubble is in place. So perhaps that section was retractable after all. They sure had it pop up pretty smartly, then, as soon as the bus was in the open air as we cut to the wide shot.
This was such a huge and expensive prop that I don't think there would have been two versions of the big bus. It must have been a retractable roof or it might have been a removable top somewhat like a big camper shell.
Nice entrance! The actual vehicle (according to April 1976 Motor Trend) was two International Harvester semis inside this plastic facade. There were two drivers (but the rear one couldn't see out and was directed by the front driver. The glass cab out front is just for show and display the actors who appear to drive the bus.
The distant shot at the beginning shows the official party, but one guy is lying down on a stretcher. He can't be moved because he has a St Christophers medal imbedded in his chest from an earlier sabotage explosion. Brilliant. The Big Bus has been my favourite spoof since I saw it in 1976 when I was 17y
The crazy thing I remember from the movie is that they always drove the Cyclops on twisty, two-lane highways. There must have been four-lane interstate highways to drive on in those days.
I was a kid when I saw this movie on TV, and for some reason I thought I imagined seeing this. So glad to see it really existed. The movie was goofy as heck, even to me as a kid. But for some reason I thought the idea of this bus was cool.
Well, after all these...Decades...I have no idea which road to nowhere that Big Old Thing took, but I Was there at Paramount when it was being made, and remember seeing various sections of the Bus around the lot! It was Always needing Work! You can Imagine! Good times....Simpler times! I Miss them! ^^X^^
I remember seeing this movie at the Theatre when I was a kid. I would have been 11 or 12. This was supposed to be a satire of all the "Disaster Movies" which were all the rage during the 1970's ("Airport", "Airport-75", "Earthquake", "The Posiedon Adventure", "The Towering Inferno"..) Now the movie characters could experience life-threatening danger on a "Big Bus." I remember enjoying it as a kid, but I remember very little about it. I assumed everyone was saved at the end...
They were, but-well, you'll just have to rent it from TH-cam and see it (if you don't remember the ending) because I'm _not_ going to be a dick and spoil said ending.
I have this on DVD and I can't explain why Harold Gould's line about the Coyote being painted on backwards is omitted from the home video release. I thought this bus was the coolest thing ever when I was 7, that is until Star Wars was released a year later.
Probably had a squat valve :) Truckers used to tell rookies that if you pull the air horn, it would activate the squat valve to lower the truck in case if a low bridge or other low objects... :)
I remember this movie as 'comedy gold' and only as an adult of today can see the practical applications of having a vehicle like this. Eastern Europe, Canada and South America already have vehicles this big on roads (mostly lumber and petrol transportation) so I don't see it as unusual to have something like this for passenger use.
I am not a movie expert but it looks like it would be more dramatic to place the camera to the other side of the bus so the setting or rising sun would shine on the bus rather than the shadowy side,
For some inexplicable reason, the joke right after this moment was cut from the home video release, even though it was short and very funny. The music ends and Harold Gould yells -- Who put the coyote on backwards?!
That's it! I knew I wasn't going crazy! I remember hearing that line when I saw the movie on TV back around 1980. I can't explain why it is not on the DVD.
I saw this movie several times at the theater as a kid. I was nine years old, so my standards probably weren't very high, but the goofiness of it appealed to me at the time. Elements of the story influenced, (or were possibly ripped off by), the makers of Airplane. I would love to see it again, but it is very hard to find.
I remember when this movie was released; saw it in late Autumn, 1976. It was a double-bill w/ Mel Brooks' "Silent Movie" (we laughed a lot that evening...)
Incredible ! Wow! I went wild ! When I saw this as a kid at 12 ! Yes old! I thought to my self , love to have this! But in reality now? Fuel consumption! 2 man drivers! I guess It has a switch to operate for one driver two? if the second driver is tired ? If ur bored u can change? Drivers seat ! If u want it l.h.d. or to r.h.d. ha ha ha ! How cool ! Is that ! Maintance fees? Tyres ? The cost ? Insurance? Tax ? So many questions! Lol 😁
The music is the opening to "Also Sprach Zarathustra" by Richard Strauss (died 1945) You know him as the composer of Ariadne auf Naxos or Der Rosenkavalier.
Is that cool. The movie with the bus is fantastic. :) i have seen 1978 (with 15 Years) in the cinema in germany and in the '80 on the tv. It's a great machine and a wonderful bus. Thanks for the pics. Best wishes from germany. Henning
It's ridiculous how the ground crews behave in such a formal military fashion for this momentous occasion yet there are only a few people there to witness said occasion. 5 ground crew members, 1 security guard, 2 drivers, and 5 spectators. You would think there'd be at least several hundred people in attendance such the engineers, scientists, technicians, fabricators, the media, and the public at large. I guess so much money was spent on the huge prop that there was none left for some extras.
Same studio and same team that did the similiar, and boxoffice champ AIRPLANE! (1980), hich isaw then..my first expierence at multiple times seeing, and thereby, memorizaing a movie.
the same way they got it out of that hanger....magic! anybody else notice that the roof barely clears the doorway when it first rolls out, but if you look @ it once it's parked outside, the rear section is clearly higher than what the hanger door is. don't get me wrong, this movie was great (for what it was), but the things you miss when not looking @ the whole picture.......
@cliofilmtv; the name of the music is 'Also Sprach Zarathustra,' by Richard Strauss - NOT 'the 2001 movie music.' It really, REALLY helps people to STAY in SCHOOl - graduate frm HIGH SCHOOL , then go to UNIVERSITY (and NOT to party. People who do that end up not knowing simple things - like the title of this piece).
Yes, I understand that 2001 used no original music ant was borrowed from classical authors, like Strauss, but since this is a parody movie and it was using this music as a reference to 2001, I linked it to the movie that it originally parodied, as in this scene; it's an over the top technological advancement in transportation, so the reference was the sci-fi movie 2001 released eight years before. Now if anyone knows about 2001, then he can find that the sources of the music, but I thought referencing 2001 was more appropriate than referencing Strauss in this particular case. (sorry for my bad English anyhow).
It's on DVD, but in an (IMHO) inferior version from Warner Archive (I wish that this was on DVD and Blu-Ray from Olive Films instead, or on Blu-Ray from Paramount as part of the Paramount Presents collection.)
I have read that it was destroyed after the making of the movie. But a real-life Neoplan double-artic double-decker still exists for real, but not in running condition
The bus idea and design are marvelous, but The movies is selliest supposed to be a comedy movies ever, it's not only you can`t laugh at it, but it even makes you wanna cry from The beggening till The end
all of the fanfare and hype as it is towed out of the "hanger" and only about five people to see its unveiling....did anyone happen to notice that the coyote was backwards? lol....
Apparently this vehicle was designed to send hundreds of people, hurtling to their deaths at 400 mph on a public road in a crash that would result in a 5 kiloton atomic explosion. FUCK YEAH. Now there's an ending that would top Silver Streak.
"Look out, he's got a broken milk carton!" Anyone ever notice that when it emerges from the hanger it doesn't have the skylight third level yet it miraculously appears in the full shot? If I ever win the Powerball I would rebuild the Big Bus as my personal RV :-D
This was a nice movie. Who built the bus? And where did it go after the movie? Or is it a giant engine less prop, or facade on wheels? Still it must of cost something to fabricate even for effect shots agaist a moving back ground.
I stumbled on this video because I wanted to see exactly how uncomfortable my impending Megabus trip was going to be. I really hope Megabus is like this. It is isn't it?
@FormerlyFlightsuit You're looking for something in this movie to make sence?? Good luck! Actually the standing at attention and saluting (I assume that's what you mean) does make perfect sence, you don't need to be military to do that and when the Boss is showing the very big and expensive new toy to his bosses boss (and his boss) you will put on the formal show.
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In the same year, 1976, the German firm Neoplan sent an articulated double-decker touring bus across the USA, outfitted as a rolling hotel with room for 12 passengers. this was done to show what was possible with buses (not quite the Big Bus, but close).
I love how the roof at the front barely clears the top of the door in the building, but when we see it parked outside near the end, the rear of the bus has a big observation bubble that would never cleared it and was actually missing when it was driven out.
If you look closely at the roofline of the rear half of the bus as it exits the hangar, there is a slight dip after the second window, and there is an air scoop after the sixth window. The air scoop is present and correct on the top when the observation bubble is in place. So perhaps that section was retractable after all. They sure had it pop up pretty smartly, then, as soon as the bus was in the open air as we cut to the wide shot.
Hahah
Must have been retractable. You don't think the props department would actually install it AFTER exiting the hangar... do you?!😜
This was such a huge and expensive prop that I don't think there would have been two versions of the big bus. It must have been a retractable roof or it might have been a removable top somewhat like a big camper shell.
The magic of Camera cuts...
I saw this as a kid. loved how a tire blows out, it jettisons away only to be replaced without the bus even slowing down. So "70's" cool!
I loved its aerodynamics, which only worked once it got over a certain speed: "We're breaking wind at 90 miles per hour!"
Nice entrance! The actual vehicle (according to April 1976 Motor Trend) was two International Harvester semis inside this plastic facade. There were two drivers (but the rear one couldn't see out and was directed by the front driver. The glass cab out front is just for show and display the actors who appear to drive the bus.
I love this movie very much. I saw it many times in my childhood and especially when you are younger this bus is the geeatest thing ever. I love it.
Indeed. I made a lego model and many drawings of it. That bus was more fascinating than Kitt!
The distant shot at the beginning shows the official party, but one guy is lying down on a stretcher. He can't be moved because he has a St Christophers medal imbedded in his chest from an earlier sabotage explosion. Brilliant. The Big Bus has been my favourite spoof since I saw it in 1976 when I was 17y
I remember my friend and I saw this movie in hollywood in 1976 boy those days were great i also saw the bus park off la brea Blvd.
I felt like 10 years old again after seeing this again. I saw this with a double feature of LOGANS RUN. Thanks for posting this & the nostalgia trip
Fantastic Movie!! The comedy is priceless due to its fine cast and plot! New York to Denver!
The crazy thing I remember from the movie is that they always drove the Cyclops on twisty, two-lane highways. There must have been four-lane interstate highways to drive on in those days.
AngelBearOH probably
I was a kid when I saw this movie on TV, and for some reason I thought I imagined seeing this. So glad to see it really existed. The movie was goofy as heck, even to me as a kid. But for some reason I thought the idea of this bus was cool.
Me too
My cousin and I watched when we were 12 or 13
Goofy? I thought it was some serious shit not to be mocked? I was only 10.
Well, after all these...Decades...I have no idea which road to nowhere that Big Old Thing took, but I Was there at Paramount when it was being made, and remember seeing various sections of the Bus around the lot! It was Always needing Work! You can Imagine!
Good times....Simpler times! I Miss them!
^^X^^
I remember seeing this movie at the Theatre when I was a kid. I would have been 11 or 12. This was supposed to be a satire of all the "Disaster Movies" which were all the rage during the 1970's ("Airport", "Airport-75", "Earthquake", "The Posiedon Adventure", "The Towering Inferno"..)
Now the movie characters could experience life-threatening danger on a "Big Bus." I remember enjoying it as a kid, but I remember very little about it. I assumed everyone was saved at the end...
They were, but-well, you'll just have to rent it from TH-cam and see it (if you don't remember the ending) because I'm _not_ going to be a dick and spoil said ending.
I have this on DVD and I can't explain why Harold Gould's line about the Coyote being painted on backwards is omitted from the home video release. I thought this bus was the coolest thing ever when I was 7, that is until Star Wars was released a year later.
Star Wars was shit. The Big Bus was the real shit!
Probably had a squat valve :) Truckers used to tell rookies that if you pull the air horn, it would activate the squat valve to lower the truck in case if a low bridge or other low objects... :)
Remember it well. Utterly rediculous and totally hillarious!
I remember the music .....bits if the bus.....a kid of 1978 in Galway Bay, Western Ireland
The bus is straight outta hotwheels collection
the rocket engine made it more practical for cruising.
If I remember right, the bus was billed as a Nuclear Powered bus.
I remember this movie as 'comedy gold' and only as an adult of today can see the practical applications of having a vehicle like this. Eastern Europe, Canada and South America already have vehicles this big on roads (mostly lumber and petrol transportation) so I don't see it as unusual to have something like this for passenger use.
+blackwunk I don't think its economically feasible.
love the way the sky deck at the back miraculously makes it out of a door four foot shorter than it...
What explains this movie? It was the 70s, folks - everyone was snorting coke.
+MarvelDcImage You can explain the 90s in that everyone was doing Speed.
And the 60s was lsd, and now it's marijuana.
Herded NJ uxnf
2020 movies...everyone’s sun tanning their anuses, being cuckold and praising the dark lord
@@zbudda and 2021, Max Headroom Biden and Harris constantly malfunctioning the vaccine and covid-19 leftovers of it anyway
"Thunderbirds are GO!"
Aqui no Brasil passava na tv manchete esse filme.
I would totally make this into a motorhome.
OMG I loved this movie. Thanks for posting this. Who says nuclear power can't be used on the road. LOL
Bloody hell look like longer bendy coach! What a life!!!
Crazy!
I am not a movie expert but it looks like it would be more dramatic to place the camera to the other side of the bus so the setting or rising sun would shine on the bus rather than the shadowy side,
For some inexplicable reason, the joke right after this moment was cut from the home video release, even though it was short and very funny. The music ends and Harold Gould yells -- Who put the coyote on backwards?!
That's it! I knew I wasn't going crazy! I remember hearing that line when I saw the movie on TV back around 1980. I can't explain why it is not on the DVD.
@@lincbond442, it needs to be on a Blu-ray disc.
I saw this movie several times at the theater as a kid. I was nine years old, so my standards probably weren't very high, but the goofiness of it appealed to me at the time. Elements of the story influenced, (or were possibly ripped off by), the makers of Airplane. I would love to see it again, but it is very hard to find.
Why am I seeing this again after all these years
I remember when this movie was released; saw it in late Autumn, 1976. It was a double-bill w/ Mel Brooks' "Silent Movie" (we laughed a lot that evening...)
您好，哇這一台巴士🚌好大呀，还是双節的双层大巴车！
Ahhhh the Cyclops.Everybodys favorite nuclear powered bus.
wow
so cool
"Raise the flags of all nations!"
I wonder if it still exists somewhere in a hollywood warehouse?
SevelRomanov :(
@SevelRomanov It's a shame, they could've turned it into some kind of attraction.
@SevelRomanov I remember in a Starlog magazine in the 70s, reading it was the biggest movie prop ever made.
The Cyclopes should have been preserved not scraped
@SevelRomanov :(
according to Wikipedia the bus was scrapped after shooting the movie. such a shame, it would have been a great piece of movie memorabilia history.....
Incredible ! Wow! I went wild ! When I saw this as a kid at 12 ! Yes old! I thought to my self , love to have this! But in reality now? Fuel consumption! 2 man drivers! I guess It has a switch to operate for one driver two? if the second driver is tired ? If ur bored u can change? Drivers seat ! If u want it l.h.d. or to r.h.d. ha ha ha ! How cool ! Is that ! Maintance fees? Tyres ? The cost ? Insurance? Tax ? So many questions! Lol 😁
I saw this on TV, I had no idea this was an actual movie.
Hahaha I just noticed that! The top part in the back isn't even on when they are rolling it out.
Oh, you mean the canopy over the pool! I never noticed that it was missing here!
The music is the opening to "Also Sprach Zarathustra" by Richard Strauss (died 1945) You know him as the composer of Ariadne auf Naxos or Der Rosenkavalier.
Is that cool. The movie with the bus is fantastic. :) i have seen 1978 (with 15 Years)
in the cinema in germany and in the '80 on the tv. It's a great machine and a wonderful bus. Thanks for the pics.
Best wishes from germany.
Henning
Fantastic stuff
Enjoy this video 😍😍😍
Gezz, I remember this show..
It was as Awesome as it was ridiculous.
Fantastico 😃🚍⛽🚦🚥🚧🛑😍😍😍 maravilloso yo lo recuerdo en mi infancia,👏👏😃😃😃😃
It's ridiculous how the ground crews behave in such a formal military fashion for this momentous occasion yet there are only a few people there to witness said occasion. 5 ground crew members, 1 security guard, 2 drivers, and 5 spectators. You would think there'd be at least several hundred people in attendance such the engineers, scientists, technicians, fabricators, the media, and the public at large. I guess so much money was spent on the huge prop that there was none left for some extras.
It's a crazy comedy love the 70's crazy times -_-
Cool!
How come I never, ever saw this on TV or in the movies? And I’m a certified Scifi nut...!!! Where did my life go wrong? 😳
I did some digging on this less than a year ago. Unfortunately this prop (which was built without any blueprints) was not preserved.
Same studio and same team that did the similiar, and boxoffice champ AIRPLANE! (1980), hich isaw then..my first expierence at multiple times seeing, and thereby, memorizaing a movie.
the same way they got it out of that hanger....magic!
anybody else notice that the roof barely clears the doorway when it first rolls out, but if you look @ it once it's parked outside, the rear section is clearly higher than what the hanger door is.
don't get me wrong, this movie was great (for what it was), but the things you miss when not looking @ the whole picture.......
I t was eons since I watched this flick!
20 years ago or more ago...now i found it.
@cliofilmtv; the name of the music is 'Also Sprach Zarathustra,' by Richard Strauss - NOT 'the 2001 movie music.'
It really, REALLY helps people to STAY in SCHOOl - graduate frm HIGH SCHOOL , then go to UNIVERSITY (and NOT to party. People who do that end up not knowing simple things - like the title of this piece).
Yes, I understand that 2001 used no original music ant was borrowed from classical authors, like Strauss, but since this is a parody movie and it was using this music as a reference to 2001, I linked it to the movie that it originally parodied, as in this scene; it's an over the top technological advancement in transportation, so the reference was the sci-fi movie 2001 released eight years before. Now if anyone knows about 2001, then he can find that the sources of the music, but I thought referencing 2001 was more appropriate than referencing Strauss in this particular case. (sorry for my bad English anyhow).
Simple things like knowing when to use the letter "o", mister '"frm"?
Still looking for this one on DVD!
It's on DVD, but in an (IMHO) inferior version from Warner Archive (I wish that this was on DVD and Blu-Ray from Olive Films instead, or on Blu-Ray from Paramount as part of the Paramount Presents collection.)
WOW
It's such a shame that they scrapped it because of it's size, there is nothing like it today.
I have read that it was destroyed after the making of the movie. But a real-life Neoplan double-artic double-decker still exists for real, but not in running condition
looks like something TOP GEAR would build if they had the budget to it ! 🤪
We broke the wind at 90!
Roadrunner sees bus...
" scoffs, ... oh please..."
HOLY BUS BATMAN!!!!!
@bruhe The Mammoth Car is 10 time longer. The Big Bus always reminds me something that the Power Rangers would drive.
kkkkkkkkkkkkk, eu lembro de mais desse filme, saudades!!!!!
This is a cult classic
The bus idea and design are marvelous, but The movies is selliest supposed to be a comedy movies ever, it's not only you can`t laugh at it, but it even makes you wanna cry from The beggening till The end
That's a big ass bus
Pedazo de turbina que tiene chaval
all of the fanfare and hype as it is towed out of the "hanger" and only about five people to see its unveiling....did anyone happen to notice that the coyote was backwards? lol....
Apparently this vehicle was designed to send hundreds of people, hurtling to their deaths at 400 mph on a public road in a crash that would result in a 5 kiloton atomic explosion. FUCK YEAH. Now there's an ending that would top Silver Streak.
The dome on the rear of the bus, was missing...
Salut de France. En français le film The big bus est nommé Le bus en folie
"Look out, he's got a broken milk carton!"
Anyone ever notice that when it emerges from the hanger it doesn't have the skylight third level yet it miraculously appears in the full shot?
If I ever win the Powerball I would rebuild the Big Bus as my personal RV :-D
You're right. Nice catch. "Raise flags of all nations..."
It wouldn't clear the hanger door if it had the skylight. I'd never fly if greyhound had buses like this.
This was a nice movie. Who built the bus? And where did it go after the movie? Or is it a giant engine less prop, or facade on wheels? Still it must of cost something to fabricate even for effect shots agaist a moving back ground.
I love that they have an NYPD incident reaction team ready to go there, just waiting for alll the inevitable casualties.
I stumbled on this video because I wanted to see exactly how uncomfortable my impending Megabus trip was going to be. I really hope Megabus is like this. It is isn't it?
It's not, but at least it won't be a disaster like what's shown in this movie.)
I've seen everything now..
@AcropolisDiscoMovil Es para una comedia de 1976, se anticipó a Aterriza como puedas por cuatro años, realmente divertida, absurda y loca.
COOL NOW you can turn the whole thing in different directions using the two steering wheels
It was impressive to an 8-year old like I was watching that roll out on the big screen. Now it looks ridiculous.
it's like a aircraft on wheels
You eat one lousy foot and they call you a cannibal.
@Buckeyecat2002 Also Sprach Zarathustra by Richard Strauss. Flair used it as his theme music for yours but it's better known from 2001 A Space Odyssey
오늘 하루도 즐겁게 보내세요
@craigm2
Yep nice camera cut - pity they left it parked next to the door so you couldn't help but notice afterwards.
I must be thinking of another bus that used the same logo on both sides so that the coyote was running to the back on one side.
Как называется этот фильм ?
wow
@FormerlyFlightsuit You're looking for something in this movie to make sence?? Good luck! Actually the standing at attention and saluting (I assume that's what you mean) does make perfect sence, you don't need to be military to do that and when the Boss is showing the very big and expensive new toy to his bosses boss (and his boss) you will put on the formal show.
after watching that the tall bit on the back wasn't there when it got pulled out of the hanger
So this is where Jeremy Clarkson got the idea for his limo in Top Gear?
if they wanted this bus to appear impressive why did they have it towed out of a hangar by a 3 year old on his pedal powered tractor??
Here, hold my beer...... Pick a drive-thru any drive-thru, it'll fit!
@AcropolisDiscoMovil yes. It was a spoof of disaster films.
You mean, "Also Spracht Zarathustra" by Richard Strauss. Thanks for posting, though.