I wonder how the original animators feel. That there creation would become a well known internet legend with merchandise and an interesting story. Glad that you guys are doing this for the community!
Totally, this ticks off all the boxes for a hazy, bright and nostalgic 1970s cartoon being watched as a child in the mid 80s; dream fuel. As an adult, this also evokes lighter orchestral pieces from a vintage Lupin III soundtrack album.
To everyone saying it’s not the scary, it isn’t meant to be. But when you’re a kid some things scare you that aren’t scary to you when you’re grown. You have to admit that being 6 years old and watching a bearded man sneak into a girl’s room with semi-ominous music playing would scare a few kids, especially if they were so scared they didn’t focus on the happy ending of the short.
Shit scared me. The sound is actually of animals howling. Its not that its scary on paper. Its the delivery. Also the character designs are off putting.
Yeah I agree. Ever wake up at like two in the morning as a child and be scared of something that you would have no issue with during the daytime? Same type of deal
the english dub is much more sweet and has a moral, and the wizard is more gentle, but the original is pretty creepy, and is very terrifying for a child. the english version is much more tame.
Exactly! Apparently I didn't watch the whole cartoon when I was little, because the only thing that I could remember was seeing the wizard's face in the trees. That was creepy to me I was only 5-6 years old.
@@ok_okay as far as I'm concerned if no one knew where its whereabouts were (up until now) then it's considered lost regardless if people were searching for it or not which they were cus there's reddit posts and TH-cam videos on it
What the short was rumored to be: Strange sadistic old man kidnaps a young boy for no reason, scarring him possibly for life What the short actually was: A wholesome story about honesty
I personally don’t find this scary but I will admit that this art is a little unsettling and can understand why someone would be scared by this especially if one saw this as a little kid
i think that if i saw this and other things, such as wizard of oz, christmas carol, nightmare before christmas, i may forget them and remember clockman one day, elements from those might be mixed in with clockmqn, creating some scary memories. i think its possible that this happened to commander santa.
lol I remember being scared of the opening disclaimer of a disney scary movie. Im gonna go blame weather alerts on that (and by extension dial up internet). shit isn't some show or anything but imagine you are watching youtube and suddenly- BRAAAAAAAT! BRAAAAAT! BRAAAAAT!f
I hate to rain on your childhood parade as it were but the original does not mention this. Actually the girl makes the gloves for her mother and the wizard is happy about it and thats all.
this begs the question are you really 'you'? if all of your cells in your body are completely changed every 14 to 15 years and your memories are all distorted, literally nothing about you is the same, so you cannot be the same you. sure you could argue that your name stays the same but your name isnt apart of you it is something we have all mutually agreed to call you
RainydayLps *climbs up the creator of Nickelodeon’s stairs in a creepy form* *and kiddnaps the creator of Nickelodeon* *forces nickeloAdian to return making fiends and invader zim* *and clockman*
Its actually such a beautiful and empowering cartoon. Especially the phrase "sally decided that if she were strong enough to make stars, then she were strong enough to tell the truth."
It’s still a bit creepy and unnerving because of the art style, but OP’s distorted memory of it is horrifying compared to the reality. I understand ehu though, they were 6 at the time.
That animation style was very popular back then in Czechoslovakia, Poalnd and Russia. Nothing scary for me, I grew up watching all the time staff like that
I remember coming across the thumbnail of BlameitonJorge's video about this short and got scared when I saw Mr. Kadabra. Years later I'm watching this full short now and realized "Oh, it's not that bad."
The teacher gave her bad grades until she **** on the **** for his **** like a ***** wearing a *******. Then he called her mother, so she could tell her everything that happened while he **********ed listening.
Watching this as an adult, something about this is extremely relaxing to me. Almost nostalgic, even though this came out years before i was born & I never saw this as a kid. Although I can somewhat understand how a kid watching this could find it a bit creepy, this old fashioned type of animation is truly very calming to me.
The Wizard dude was pretty creepy and I can see how that scene of him grabbing her would traumatize a child, but other than that it really seems like an innocent cartoon.
I thought so too. I watched this when I was younger. I was young so I didn't remember most details until now. Looking back it was the animation that scared me.... but as the details disappeared over time I guess that I got the idea that the plot was scary too. Only when I watched a Gamer From Mars video about it did I find this and remember it all.
Stuffed Animal Wars lt's hardly nightmare fuel but it has its moments. Like the drum beat, whistling, having no eyes at that moment with him walking up those stairs.
This is honestly, incredibly charming. The moral, the slightly stilted but still fluid animations, the adorable music and the grandmotherly narrator for the whole thing.
A near decade-long internet witch hunt for a supposedly terrifying animation turns out to be a wholesome short story about telling the truth Oh the internet
@@namecomingsoon9517 apart from that if you had Chances of watching this short within the age of 6-8 then you will probally can tell that the animation look creepy while the wizard disappearing with the girl can sought out your mind that she was kidnap but in any other ways its called "miss intrepet"
Did you not listen to the part where some creepy ass wizard kidnapped a small girl and made her do child labor instead of just telling her to tell her mother again or he’d do it?
It's only somewhat true. The video had only been uploaded to TH-cam the month prior to when it was identified by NitrateNerd as Clockman, and at the time it had its original title (Sally.) The title didn't include Clockman because that was just the nickname given to it by lost media hunters, since the real title was unknown. The video title was renamed to include "Clockman" after the fact. Otherwise, it would've been easy to find and definitely would've been discovered sooner.
It was probably also the flu. In the perspective of a child, who still hasn't made sense of the world, i see how the wizard could be seen as an embodyment of the discomfort brought by the fever.
Pretty disappointed it isn't claymation either, those people had pretty horrible memories over all about this. Proves how the Mandela Effect nonsense is believable to so many people, human's memories are not so great.
Thank you Bernice Coe for bringing this short to us. We hope the fervent interest and preservation of this animation honors your memory. The work you did to bring these films to us impacted many.
People are saying they can’t imagine this ever being creepy, but I totally could. As a child, this would _terrify_ me. Especially as a child with a fever, my nightmares would be riddled with this guy’s face until it became a much darker memory like what our guy Santa remembered. Currently? Yeah, it’s a little creepy, but it’s a cute story with an awesome recovery story attached to it. There’s always something inherently unnerving about the concept of lost media, but the recovery of this is an awesome tale of Internet legend.
I think it could also maake people paranoid because if they tell a lie which isn't always wrong a magical wizard will show up and kidnap you and force you to work for him and after he lets you go he gets away with 0 consequences
I want to say that this dub completely changes the story. Sally knitted the gloves for her mother, they didn't magically appear in her hands. It was also her idea to help the wizard, she wasn't forced to. Similarly, she didn't have to say the truth at the end. Once she helped the wizard, he forgot about the whole thing. Also, when the wizard is going upstairs, the narrator doesn't say "but he didn't forget". Instead the wizard is saying "Sally... I'm coming for you, I'm at the first step... Sally I'm coming for you, I'm already at the sixth step... And I'm here." There also isn't anything said about her mother doing the same thing in the past. It instead ends wirh narrator creepily saying something along the lines of "but sometimes losing your gloves, doesn't end so well..." And bunch of other changes. Really interesting how much dub can change something
Same. Just a bit of extra lore can make a simple story like this feel a bit bigger and a bit more real. It also lets you know that the mother is going to be forgiving so there’s also some catharsis there.
It really tells you that this wizard was in the family for long, and he’ll continue being in the family for longer. It’s a nice little side story for a few seconds.
To everyone saying "this is not scary": when you have a vague memory of a show you watched as a KID, and all you remember from that show was a scene that felt creepy or just unsettling, at that age, with your mushy cognitive-developing child brain, of course you would think the show was actually creepy.
There was a Thomas the train kids book when I was little that really disturbed me as a child, there was a chinese dragon and I think it was some sort of piñata but it would follow Thomas at night and it had a huge smile and big bulging eyes. It really scared the hell out of me and I'd cry.
I think this actually shows how much thought should go into childrens cartoons. I can totally relate that many things that do not seem so scary now, actually freaked me out as a child and stuck in my head. A little story that's just supposed to teach you about honesty, but what it does it create a fear of a man coming out of the clock in your bedroom! Personally I did not pay attention to the story as a child but more to the overall imagery, atmosphere and single interactions.
As a child you'd tend to only remember some of the things that stands out from an animation, trip, movie, game, etc. so you'd mostly forget about the pleasant stuff and only remember what stood out.
Jacksgames101 the part where he becomes trees or takes her to his magic chamber isn’t creepy especially not being able to remember everything of the story decades later
I was looking for this for 5 years, I was one of the people who saw this when I was young, and I can’t believe that you can now just find this on youtube🤧
Okay, it’s been a while, but here we go: If a dog tries to rest their arms on you while your petting them, don’t worry! They’re trying to pet you back!
It's amazing how distorted Commander Santa's memory of the short was and how distorted the memory of everyone else who rememberd the short. Another comment said this, but it is very strange how people's memories distort over time. The cartoon was described as so horrifying that people were dismissing it as a Creepypasta. While the real cartoon is a bit strange, it is a perfectly innocent cartoon with unique animation, pretty and catchy music, an overall weird but charming feel (similar to Tim Burton) which is one of my favorite styles of art. As a person who finds psychology a fascinating passion, I personally think that the search for Clockman should be a psychology case study that should be taught in psychology classes.
i’m ten months late lol but anyways.. this short is czech and here in czechia, we have a really different style of cartoons. a looot of older cartoons are stop motion or with puppets and have like a slightly strange vibe to them. recently i saw that this short was a piece of creepy lost media and realized, that we have a lot of kids media that is just super normal to us, but strange and maybe unsettling to other countries. like the 'ratafak plachta' puppet from czechoslovakia that was also considered creepy to westerners while being a normal charming kids character to us
i think its easily explained: one person misremembers something, that distorts one persons extremely loose memory of a thing they havent seen in years and more join in since "hey these people seem pretty sure about this" this is also why the mandela effect happens, but please dont quote me on this and look it up cause i may be explaining it badly
@@KnoxCarbon plus, he was sick! i have childhood memories of sobbing my eyes out in terror because i had a horrible fever and hallucinated that people just talking at a normal (albeit, stressed out by my hysterics) level were SCREAMING VIOLENTLY at me.
Everyone here is talking about how this is more wholesome than creepy, but the part where he enters her home is creepy as shit because of the music in the background
The entirety of this is creepy for me, I mean, she looks like she got a makeover from The Joker, and even when she jumped rope and got closer to the camera, that was horrifying
I think most of the scariness factor comes from the animation style. I was constantly worried that a giant, monochromatic foot was going to descend from the heavens and squish somebody.
This definitely was stored in my ancient childhood memories. There were quite a few of these unsettling shorts on the already, "creepy as hell" pinwheel show. Mostly because even at such a young age, I saw it as a value brand version of Sesame Street and just felt, off... Lol.
Imagine creating a good children's cartoon about a silly wonky-looking wizard trying to teach a girl to always tell the truth, just to be described as something from the pits of hell by someone on the internet.
@@michaelflores9220 The poster had a fever at the time. Not to mention he was young. His memory was probably twisted being so young and seeing the creepy art style.
they both treated it like a dream. at the end when sally tells her mom the truth, her mom tells her she had a dream like that too. also it was even mentioned that sally fell asleep before the weird stuff happened to her directly, then she also woke up. so it was more like a dream to her, but the gloves on her bed made it seem more real.
End Cat ye i have memories of watching looney tunes when i stayed home sick with the flu and i remember nothing but horror and they were genuine and wholesome episodes
Honestly. And when the wizard returned her home safe and sound, telling her that he had her mother crochet some stars for him too when she was a kid. And he even gave her an extra pair of gloves to give to her mother! 😊
I love how Mr. Cadabra is firm but also encouraging with her. He holds her accountable but lets her know she did a good job when she finishes making the stars. Kinda forward-thinking for its time, not making kids feel horrible if they do lie but showing that dishonesty results in having to do extra work to fix your original mistake. It’s a really cute story. Also, yeah, he’s not scary at all, but the art style is super whimsigoth and I could see how CommanderSanta would’ve been spooked by his appearance and the way he scolds Sally while he was a sick kid.
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Oh my gosh that is so cute and wholesome, I love it. :')
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@@jamesdelacruz3019 . YES, we have! 😉
I wonder how the original animators feel. That there creation would become a well known internet legend with merchandise and an interesting story. Glad that you guys are doing this for the community!
That's a cool way to support the people preserving these classic animations
this sounds terrifying when you hear the description everyone gives but the animation is actually charming
David Trujillo what if it’s not the real one tho
GOLDEN RAINBOWS didn’t the guy who described it confirm that it was real though?
Yes he did
Oh I didn’t know sorry
David Trujillo leave it at 666
The "ClockMan" was a lot less evil than I thought he would be...
indeed.
Are you talking about me
@@clockman-ys7pb lol wut
Same and it's less scary.
@@bruhbruhbruh8905 cocks shot gun bitch what?
Came for the nightmare fuel. Instead, I got a cute story and a surprisingly nifty soundtrack.
Oh yeah that soundtrack tho, so spicy
Totally, this ticks off all the boxes for a hazy, bright and nostalgic 1970s cartoon being watched as a child in the mid 80s; dream fuel. As an adult, this also evokes lighter orchestral pieces from a vintage Lupin III soundtrack album.
It loses so much creepiness when it's actually in context. The wizard was still kinda creepy looking to me though
@@dylanrobson3802 sounds as if Jimi Hendrix about to play
BamerJammer same same same
To everyone saying it’s not the scary, it isn’t meant to be. But when you’re a kid some things scare you that aren’t scary to you when you’re grown. You have to admit that being 6 years old and watching a bearded man sneak into a girl’s room with semi-ominous music playing would scare a few kids, especially if they were so scared they didn’t focus on the happy ending of the short.
Shit scared me. The sound is actually of animals howling. Its not that its scary on paper. Its the delivery. Also the character designs are off putting.
Yeah I agree. Ever wake up at like two in the morning as a child and be scared of something that you would have no issue with during the daytime? Same type of deal
the english dub is much more sweet and has a moral, and the wizard is more gentle, but the original is pretty creepy, and is very terrifying for a child. the english version is much more tame.
@@seapop2629 i showed the english version to my 6 year old brother and he called it boring, just like his reaction to cracks, he just got bored
Exactly! Apparently I didn't watch the whole cartoon when I was little, because the only thing that I could remember was seeing the wizard's face in the trees. That was creepy to me I was only 5-6 years old.
That boy must have had one hell of a fever to think the Wizard was some mean creepy guy.
Hehe I caught ya 2 hours instead of months
Heyy caught you also in 2 hours
I caught you in two hours haha
Gotcha in 2 hours too
Gotcha 2 hours
Kidnapping a child to teach her about honesty. The Epitome of Chaotic Good
So he's a chaotic good conjuration wizard? Teleporting around and poofing buildings out of nothing ?
Joel Haggis *chaotic neutral
@@jamesm783 Nah, given how much crazy magic he pulls off he must have been blessed by the gods with infinite castings of Wish.
Joel Haggis lmao very true
You are bad guy.
But this does not mean you are bad guy.
"Nickelodeon thought the viewers would forget."
_"BUT THE VIEWERS, DID NOT FORGET."_
🤣
Hi
Dekel Yosifon *n o i c e*
I really think I need therapy
It's commander Santa
the scariest thing about this is how close the wizard's rocking chair is to that edge
And?
@@Kittengd what a fucking worthless comment
yea thats what i thought too xd
He most likely can levitate morrowind style
He'd use his magic to get himself back up and pretend nothing happened
Nickelodeon hid this thinking Commander Santa would forget
*Commander Santa didn't forget*
ASTRO. Lmao you saw that video too? Wanted to check out if this shirt was as creepy as described
nice play 😂 i actually laughed at this lmao
Lmao just came here from dat vid from blameitonjorge
Lol that was really good
WHY DID I LAUGH AT THIS WTF
*kidnaps child but teaches them how to be good*
You are bad guy, but this does not make you bad guy
Ily
Ily
-zangeif 2013
“Are you good boy?” “Well yes, but actually no.”
"Im gonna reck it"
Imagine looking for years just to find it on TH-cam
Not really it only got discovered recently, well found actually I suppose.
@@PDeathDealers almost 2 years ago tho lol
@@ok_okay for somethings that's been lost for basically ages i reckon that's still pretty recently lol
@@PDeathDealers it hasnt been lost if no one's been looking for it, so basically still only 5 years, which isnt "ages"
@@ok_okay as far as I'm concerned if no one knew where its whereabouts were (up until now) then it's considered lost regardless if people were searching for it or not which they were cus there's reddit posts and TH-cam videos on it
What the short was rumored to be: Strange sadistic old man kidnaps a young boy for no reason, scarring him possibly for life
What the short actually was: A wholesome story about honesty
actually, in the original description it was a little boy
I thought it would be about a maniac taking children but it is wholesome
oh the internet...
The strange yet feeble mind of a child..
I personally don’t find this scary but I will admit that this art is a little unsettling and can understand why someone would be scared by this especially if one saw this as a little kid
Molang!
same
i think that if i saw this and other things, such as wizard of oz, christmas carol, nightmare before christmas, i may forget them and remember clockman one day, elements from those might be mixed in with clockmqn, creating some scary memories. i think its possible that this happened to commander santa.
with a fever
lol I remember being scared of the opening disclaimer of a disney scary movie.
Im gonna go blame weather alerts on that (and by extension dial up internet). shit isn't some show or anything but imagine you are watching youtube and suddenly- BRAAAAAAAT! BRAAAAAT! BRAAAAAT!f
Y'know, the clock was actually much less a part of this short than it was originally thought to be.
Yeah, I think it was just that that was the part that he remembered, maybe because that section was the scariest for him
They clock only appeared for like 30 seconds and calling it clock man is like calling a background character the protagonist.
@@rec1238it's like calling endgame "Dust"
I actually thought this was incredibly beautiful. I loved the part when the wizard mentioned her mom making stars for him when she was younger.
True
My favorite part was the soundtrack.
I hate to rain on your childhood parade as it were but the original does not mention this. Actually the girl makes the gloves for her mother and the wizard is happy about it and thats all.
So? You're allowed to like an aspect of the English dub that did not exist in the original Czech one.
right? this isn't scary like people described
This 70s animation art style is really such a cosy vibe
Interesting how our brains will twist and distort memories with age.
Well, can we blame ourselves. The animation is fucking scary.
@@OneDude7745 this is fucking weird ;-;
this begs the question are you really 'you'? if all of your cells in your body are completely changed every 14 to 15 years and your memories are all distorted, literally nothing about you is the same, so you cannot be the same you. sure you could argue that your name stays the same but your name isnt apart of you it is something we have all mutually agreed to call you
@@callum5209 ???
@@callum5209 smoke less dude
This isn’t scary, but if I’d seen it as a kid, I would’ve been terrified tbh
Imagine being a kid and having a fever with the flu too... haha! That shit would be terrifying!!!! And imagine the dreams after that!
I also seen it as a kid and I didn't found it very scary
@@peterclark231 I like how this old communist cartoons have poor quality and a wholesome end
The art-style is creepy af
Yeah, and I used to be really scared of ticking clocks when I was younger as well
Nickelodeon didnt answer to the media because they thought they would forget
*but we didnt forget*
RainydayLps *climbs up the creator of Nickelodeon’s stairs in a creepy form* *and kiddnaps the creator of Nickelodeon* *forces nickeloAdian to return making fiends and invader zim* *and clockman*
@B yep I know
@B I just wanted to make a joke like everybody else's
@@demonnodles4836 👌...
@My penis is so unbelievably small, but its hard to imagine why? I got hit by a truck there, that's why!
Its actually such a beautiful and empowering cartoon. Especially the phrase "sally decided that if she were strong enough to make stars, then she were strong enough to tell the truth."
Imagine working on this decades ago, they could've never guessed this would've become a massive internet search the next century. I love it.
Well no shit they couldn't have guessed that... this was made years before the internet was a thing.....
@@papagigante5911 Maybe that's the point
Y'know that's the thing about making this kind of stuff for children, you have no idea what kind of impact it's going to have on them
It was made in communist Chechoslovakia and was searched in the U.S. Of course they would have no fucking idea.
@@AnMComm more to my point
It’s still a bit creepy and unnerving because of the art style, but OP’s distorted memory of it is horrifying compared to the reality. I understand ehu though, they were 6 at the time.
M J and had flu
I heard he had a very high fever.
When I was six I was also terrified of this art style,now I find it kind of cool
That animation style was very popular back then in Czechoslovakia, Poalnd and Russia. Nothing scary for me, I grew up watching all the time staff like that
Monika And in Hungry.
3/10 No Irish dancing
Things & Stuff gibe me your profile picture
Lol
yeah cant say im disappointing doe
When he picked up sally, i could only imagine they did some 'irish dancing' (͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
3:29
This is probably what was meant with 'Irish Dancing'.
I remember coming across the thumbnail of BlameitonJorge's video about this short and got scared when I saw Mr. Kadabra. Years later I'm watching this full short now and realized "Oh, it's not that bad."
Sally's just busting into random houses looking for that glove
LMFAO
Lmao true
Every rpg be like:
@@dbonydevil7036 lmao
LMAOOO 😭😭😂😂😂
The wizard is the absolute definition of chaotic good
And now I'm going to play Mr Kadabra in a game some day.
It's not that bad, is just a story.
When you go to sleep forgetting you have homework
“She fell asleep, but *THE WIZARD DID NOT FORGET.* ”
lolll
She fell asleep, but the teacher, did not forget
The teacher gave her bad grades until she **** on the **** for his **** like a ***** wearing a *******. Then he called her mother, so she could tell her everything that happened while he **********ed listening.
Watching this as an adult, something about this is extremely relaxing to me. Almost nostalgic, even though this came out years before i was born & I never saw this as a kid. Although I can somewhat understand how a kid watching this could find it a bit creepy, this old fashioned type of animation is truly very calming to me.
Pinwheel hid Clockman hoping that people like Comander Santa would forget...
...But the internet never forgets...
This is pretty tame. Wizard seems like a strict but friendly guy
Be careful Sally, he's chasing you with two whole frames of animation!
Sorry but this made me laugh so loudly the windows shattered
Quaintrelle Q 🤣🤣🤣
Run sally hes getting slower!
LMAO
LMAOOOOSJSNDNSN
"But the Wizard did not forget." It actually sounds badass somehow.
It's hard to look at the Wizard without thinking he's Rasputin.
I creamed my 👖
*There was a wizard that really was gone*
Juice Mamoose YOU DONT KNOW WHAT YOUVE DONE
RA
RA
RASPUTIN
I’ve forgotten to stop oh well
You don’t even know what you’ve done
Grigori Rasputin, and the country this was made in was in communist control
The Wizard dude was pretty creepy and I can see how that scene of him grabbing her would traumatize a child, but other than that it really seems like an innocent cartoon.
My thoughts exactly, the wizard gives me creepy vibes, especially when he interacts with the girl and kidnaps her
Sponge Bob Square Pants is 10x creepier than this wizard, lols.
The wizard made me scared enough to not want a clock in my room.
The characters smiles also gave me weird vibes
Aylbdr Madison LMAO IF ONLY
Is it weird that Sally’s creepier than the actual clock man
I thought so too lol
Wyatt Bucknee ikr
When she smiles it's awful
Wyatt Bucknee Sally's mom is thicc in all the right places
666 likes lmao
“She didn’t tell her mother what happened”
God dammit Sally you had one job!
I was expecting this to be some scary nightmare but nope it was actually pretty relaxing to watch!
I thought so too. I watched this when I was younger. I was young so I didn't remember most details until now. Looking back it was the animation that scared me.... but as the details disappeared over time I guess that I got the idea that the plot was scary too. Only when I watched a Gamer From Mars video about it did I find this and remember it all.
same.
th-cam.com/video/74FNByoRYFk/w-d-xo.html
og has better ost and dialogue - eng dub does not make much sense
The only scary part was the Wizard coming out the clock and carrying off the girl with a manic face. Everything else seemed typical fairytale fare.
Stuffed Animal Wars
lt's hardly nightmare fuel but it has its moments. Like the drum beat, whistling, having no eyes at that moment with him walking up those stairs.
This is honestly, incredibly charming. The moral, the slightly stilted but still fluid animations, the adorable music and the grandmotherly narrator for the whole thing.
Grandmotherly narrations make everything better somehow...
did u see that jumprope tho
A near decade-long internet witch hunt for a supposedly terrifying animation turns out to be a wholesome short story about telling the truth
Oh the internet
Indeed
rfos76 __ well imagine watching this as a 6 year old with the flu. I feel like it would creep u out
rfos76 __ the animation is creepy
@@namecomingsoon9517 apart from that if you had Chances of watching this short within the age of 6-8 then you will probally can tell that the animation look creepy while the wizard disappearing with the girl can sought out your mind that she was kidnap but in any other ways its called "miss intrepet"
IKR the guy said she was screaming “help help please I wanna go homeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!” But he really didn’t..
The Wizard: *proceeds to break into a house and steal a child away*
Everyone: So wholesome!
😊
👐
😂😂
He was teaching her not to lie in his own special way
Old folk tales used to be like that, strong men and women came out hearing and reading these kinds of tales.
The fact that he smiled as he ran off with her, too. 😂
@@nostrodelaantares8416 strong? how is it strong to nt do something bad because youre threatened with kidnap and forced labor? lol
commander santa really spent years losing his mind looking for this
and then
some random guy
just
found it on TH-cam
@Ah vamo nessa - I would have preferred if it was stop motion. This was okay.
That's the power of recommendations
This was actually quite nice. I was expecting something hella creepy
same
So was I
Did you not listen to the part where some creepy ass wizard kidnapped a small girl and made her do child labor instead of just telling her to tell her mother again or he’d do it?
Reminds me of old Russian cartoons
Might just be me, but the animation is kinda creepy to me.
Could be just how old it is. But still.
Kadabra goes up two stairs at a time. What a Chad.
I cRAwl Up THe STairS
Technic 12 I go up all the stairs at once
Hehe went from crawling up stairs to jumping up them
The absolute UNIT
@@Raverix Can you do a split???
I love how Sally barging into people's houses looking for her glove implies that she goes into people's houses regularly
Homeboy just wanted to help sally out 😔
kiwigirl48 he believed she lied 😞
@@sefsprite sbeve
Just had to kidnap her real quick to help her. something light.
Jade-queen48 frfr
What a goat
“Carried her to his magic chamber”
*_Good lord_*
And the smile on his face as he carried her confirms our darkest fears.
FBI OPEN UP!!!
SALLY’S A MINOR YOU ANIMALS
DUNGEON MASTER.
“Sometimes you have to do hard things”
Clockman’s actually a chill deity kinda dude
Imagine searching for half a decade for a piece of lost media only to end up knowing that it was on TH-cam the whole time.
ههههههه من كان يصدق هذا يعنى ان كل هذا البحث و في نهايه موجود على يوتيوب
It's only somewhat true. The video had only been uploaded to TH-cam the month prior to when it was identified by NitrateNerd as Clockman, and at the time it had its original title (Sally.) The title didn't include Clockman because that was just the nickname given to it by lost media hunters, since the real title was unknown. The video title was renamed to include "Clockman" after the fact. Otherwise, it would've been easy to find and definitely would've been discovered sooner.
nickelodeon hoped the wizard would forget about this ever existing
nickelodeon fell asleep
but the wizard did not forget
The girl has orange hair. Let that sink in.
@@warlock1186 nigga...
@@sylph7543 lodeon
@@Swordsmen99 ?
@@Kontoru218 Smooth, that was real smooth, not gonna lie. XD
I can understand why this would scare kids when they were younger but I mean the animation looks eeriely beautiful
It reminds me of some animation they would show on Sesame Street back in the early 90s
Lovey Williams it reminds me of some cartoon i watched in elementary school somilar to this style
The Amazing Tatsuo we were given some old tapes with random recordings and one of them had similar shows like this
Sally I'm is terrifying
Ironically, I think its more frightening and surreal to adults.
If i was a kid that watched this at night, i too would think it was terrifying and disorienting
It was probably also the flu. In the perspective of a child, who still hasn't made sense of the world, i see how the wizard could be seen as an embodyment of the discomfort brought by the fever.
I'm watching this at 12:50am lmao
Watchig this at 3am
It’s midnight 👀💀
Its 4pm guys 😱😱😱☠
I am impressed by the nice people who helped Commander Santa to find the "Clock Man"
"But the wizard...did not forget."
Boy, she said it just as I remembered it from long, long ago!
Michael, is it really you?
@@flaminhotyoshi7403 80MWH > MWH > Michael W Howe
illuminati confirmed?
Michael?
Michael come home
Vsauce Michael here-
She fell asleep, *BUT THE WIZARD DID NOT FORGET!*
SAVE THE MILKS what porn are you watching
*Wizard* will remember that
Roblox Administrator and sally will wake up with a child in her uterus
I LAUGHED AT THAT PART AHA
In the CZ version he, didn't say that at all...
No Irish dance. Not good enough.
Magma YT that guy mixed the leprechaun horror movie with the short
Exactly
Hahahhahahaha
Lol
Pretty disappointed it isn't claymation either, those people had pretty horrible memories over all about this. Proves how the Mandela Effect nonsense is believable to so many people, human's memories are not so great.
Thank you Bernice Coe for bringing this short to us. We hope the fervent interest and preservation of this animation honors your memory. The work you did to bring these films to us impacted many.
She Hopes the wizard will forget about their deal
*BUT THE WIZARD DID NOT FORGET*
*Inception sound*
HE PICKED HER UP AND CARRIED HER TO HIS MAGIC CHAMPER
*tHe WiZaRd NeVER FoRgEtS*
Tell tale logic
Why didn't you tell your mother what happened!
Clockman: Makes houses in 5 seconds
Also him: IT ISN'T EASY BOI.
that's how fast a minecraft player and fortnite player builds my man 🤣
John Marston built a house in like weeks. Clockman ain't got shit on him lol
@@unlightings what do you mean? Marston put together a pre built house in just a montage.
Lol
just because someone is good at something doesn’t mean that others would be
“Sometimes, you have to do hard things, Sally.”
Are we going to ignore how he has a telescope directly to Sally's room?
We don’t talk about that
@@creepyunclethor8941 oh
It’s a spyglass. It’s different from a telescope
He.. he was checking if she wold tell the truth.. HE WAS JUST CHECKING-
And a rocking chair outside her window
This was a lot more sweet and wholesome than I was expecting.
It’s adorable why wasit scary
Yep!
"He picked her up and took her to his magic chamber."
**Silently calls FBI**
took her to his frick chamber
6 0 6 OMG
Im Chris Hansen, Why dont you have a seat.
@@eylcvn9619 ....
You mean the KGB.
creepy? This is freaking adorable
It oddly reminds me of my grandma
the animation is literally scary
@@DiddyKongsLeftFoot yeah I was really sensitive to rough/unsettling animation as a kid, this definitely would have freaked me out
@@finnm32strange
@@finnm32 no because the character designs look off putting
The Wizard aka The Clock Man isn't evil. Sure he might look a bit creepy, but he has the right intentions.
It was scary when he carried the little girl off, but the story was pretty cute in the end.
Kids need more stories like this that teach morals and values, actions, consequences and rewards for good behavior. Nowadays it’s all soft
He looks like some one I used to work with, lol.
@@mattkennedy6115 youtube, where anything at all can be turned into an ill informed socio-political crusade talking point.
artillery only modern day stories churned out by Disney and the other major studios can’t hold a candle to grimm’s fairy tales.
People are saying they can’t imagine this ever being creepy, but I totally could. As a child, this would _terrify_ me. Especially as a child with a fever, my nightmares would be riddled with this guy’s face until it became a much darker memory like what our guy Santa remembered.
Currently? Yeah, it’s a little creepy, but it’s a cute story with an awesome recovery story attached to it. There’s always something inherently unnerving about the concept of lost media, but the recovery of this is an awesome tale of Internet legend.
I think it could also maake people paranoid because if they tell a lie which isn't always wrong a magical wizard will show up and kidnap you and force you to work for him and after he lets you go he gets away with 0 consequences
Mr. Kadabra confirmed for smash ultimate dlc
Hopefully
Make a request
Mr kadabra confirmed for mortal kombat 11 dlc
Damn I'm maining mr. Kadabra from now on
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I want to say that this dub completely changes the story.
Sally knitted the gloves for her mother, they didn't magically appear in her hands.
It was also her idea to help the wizard, she wasn't forced to.
Similarly, she didn't have to say the truth at the end. Once she helped the wizard, he forgot about the whole thing.
Also, when the wizard is going upstairs, the narrator doesn't say "but he didn't forget". Instead the wizard is saying "Sally... I'm coming for you, I'm at the first step... Sally I'm coming for you, I'm already at the sixth step... And I'm here."
There also isn't anything said about her mother doing the same thing in the past. It instead ends wirh narrator creepily saying something along the lines of "but sometimes losing your gloves, doesn't end so well..."
And bunch of other changes. Really interesting how much dub can change something
Is the dubbing original?
@@christianmonerrisramos18 no, original is in Czech
Moral of the story: If you dont know how to make stars you're screwed.
Holy shit
if you don't know how to crochet then you'll go to the wizard's house until you learn, seems like a good way to escape from lost media videos
Good golly, 127 likes!? Thanks, that's a milestone.
I'm one of them
@@bakiiinex ty :)
*Everyone gangsta until one of sally's glove gone missing*
everyone when sally’s glove gone missing: 👁👄👁
Lol
lol
“You can give these to your mother, a long time ago, she use to make stars in the sky for me too.”
I don’t know why but I love that line.
Same. Just a bit of extra lore can make a simple story like this feel a bit bigger and a bit more real. It also lets you know that the mother is going to be forgiving so there’s also some catharsis there.
It really tells you that this wizard was in the family for long, and he’ll continue being in the family for longer. It’s a nice little side story for a few seconds.
Same here, it was so sweet
@@arclain67 ok I want a clockman part two, with Sally’s son named Santa (after Commander Santa)
@@rtlthemusician5598 Plot twist: The son is scared of the wizard, and Mr Kadabra is now evil, is the real short that Commander Santa watched
Well the Clockman looks like a chill wizard, he's also nice too
Moral of the story: tell the truth, or else a wizard is going to break into your house, kidnap you, and force you to make a bunch of stars
Oh so that is what Mr Johnson next door done
And thats a fact
sub to pewds You say that like you wouldn’t want to make stars. That’s awesome, how much do I have to lie to be able to make stars?
Ohhh 😨
If a wizard come to my room i will dam it merasmus or i will shoot the fuck out of the Wizard
To everyone saying "this is not scary": when you have a vague memory of a show you watched as a KID, and all you remember from that show was a scene that felt creepy or just unsettling, at that age, with your mushy cognitive-developing child brain, of course you would think the show was actually creepy.
There was a Thomas the train kids book when I was little that really disturbed me as a child, there was a chinese dragon and I think it was some sort of piñata but it would follow Thomas at night and it had a huge smile and big bulging eyes. It really scared the hell out of me and I'd cry.
Basically like me but with Franklin.
Especially if you're watching it while having a fever.
Not really! Not if we are talking about Mr. Meaty.
The nutcracker the untold story deeply disturbed me as a kid
3:30 - guy walks two steps at a time. what a mad lad
Your comment is cracking me up 😂
Kalmko6363 absolute _MADMAN_
Kalmko6363 this guy would’ve been the coolest kid in school.
I bet hes buff as hell inside that coat like godamn
Absolute unit
*5:30**-**5:48** The music is truly calming
ikr!!! i love it sm
@@medicmain68 For real :,).
indeed the music is very calm
Why does Sally’s pupils have to disappear at random moments
Her eyes closed
Because she is possessed by the demon who eats the _as yet not conceived_ babies of those who don't tell the truth.
She was looking to the side
Bruh she blinking 😑
She is blinking
"Sally was afraid to knock on his door, but she was even more afraid to go home without her missing glove"😂😂😂
Cat Facts relateable af
Her mom must have been Mexican
Damn, i thought this was the most hellish lost episode i’ll ever watch, and it was actually wholesome and put a smile on my face.
I feel cheated out of what I expected but pleasantly surprised by what I found instead.
@@andrewdowell6474 Yea, its nice!
Same its wholesome!
Yes, it's a wholesome story. The animation doesn't look even that bad, the only terrifying frame is when Sally close her eyes lmao
Same
I think this actually shows how much thought should go into childrens cartoons. I can totally relate that many things that do not seem so scary now, actually freaked me out as a child and stuck in my head. A little story that's just supposed to teach you about honesty, but what it does it create a fear of a man coming out of the clock in your bedroom! Personally I did not pay attention to the story as a child but more to the overall imagery, atmosphere and single interactions.
Am I the only one who finds this charming and creepy at the same time?
charming but not creepy
cakecrumb095 i am
Same
Nah. I think so too :)
Ya it's creepy but charming.
Expects nightmare fuel
Gets wholesome family entertainment instead
10/10
“But the wizard did not forget” such a creepy line
The wizard is a fucking chad that the whole town loved
Imagine searching for years for a short film that was lost and not having success. only for a random to find it on a page
Czechoslovakia - the place of wholesome story's but horrifying character design.
Couldn’t agree more
Scotty Arts They were communist when this was made
@@nadiafriesen971 bread lines
Scotty Arts Wasn't this like banned though
Pravda
The part where he goes up the stairs and comes out of the clock is pretty creepy, but the rest is actually quite pleasant.
As a child you'd tend to only remember some of the things that stands out from an animation, trip, movie, game, etc. so you'd mostly forget about the pleasant stuff and only remember what stood out.
These f*cking noises as he walks up the stairs are disturbing. Help me, this is freaking me out, but I don‘t know why
Jacksgames101 the part where he becomes trees or takes her to his magic chamber isn’t creepy especially not being able to remember everything of the story decades later
I think as a kid this short would've absolutely terrified me
___ it’s not creepy, relax hahaha
@@juanvillegas8455 of course you would say that now but I don't think your six year old self would
___ when I was 5 years old I watched The Exorcist and Chucky and was fascinated by the horror genre.
+Juan Villegas ow the edge
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Taehyung
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I was looking for this for 5 years, I was one of the people who saw this when I was young, and I can’t believe that you can now just find this on youtube🤧
I expected nightmares and I received...
A charming little short and nice music!
Exactly!
@@goopygoblin117 can you give some of your wisdom?
CALCIUM!
Okay, it’s been a while, but here we go:
If a dog tries to rest their arms on you while your petting them, don’t worry! They’re trying to pet you back!
@@goopygoblin117 das a gud wisdom
It's amazing how distorted Commander Santa's memory of the short was and how distorted the memory of everyone else who rememberd the short. Another comment said this, but it is very strange how people's memories distort over time. The cartoon was described as so horrifying that people were dismissing it as a Creepypasta. While the real cartoon is a bit strange, it is a perfectly innocent cartoon with unique animation, pretty and catchy music, an overall weird but charming feel (similar to Tim Burton) which is one of my favorite styles of art. As a person who finds psychology a fascinating passion, I personally think that the search for Clockman should be a psychology case study that should be taught in psychology classes.
That last part is a great idea!
💯
i’m ten months late lol but anyways.. this short is czech and here in czechia, we have a really different style of cartoons. a looot of older cartoons are stop motion or with puppets and have like a slightly strange vibe to them. recently i saw that this short was a piece of creepy lost media and realized, that we have a lot of kids media that is just super normal to us, but strange and maybe unsettling to other countries. like the 'ratafak plachta' puppet from czechoslovakia that was also considered creepy to westerners while being a normal charming kids character to us
i think its easily explained: one person misremembers something, that distorts one persons extremely loose memory of a thing they havent seen in years and more join in since "hey these people seem pretty sure about this"
this is also why the mandela effect happens, but please dont quote me on this and look it up cause i may be explaining it badly
Hell ya
It must have been Commander Santa's imagination because this wasn't scary at all. If anything it's quite adorable.
Sniper Melon this
is
fucking
terrifying
well at least sally is
He was a kid. It was scarier for him then.
@@KnoxCarbon plus, he was sick! i have childhood memories of sobbing my eyes out in terror because i had a horrible fever and hallucinated that people just talking at a normal (albeit, stressed out by my hysterics) level were SCREAMING VIOLENTLY at me.
That is true he said it haunted him but it is not that bad.
my thoughts exactly!!
I’m not scared of this but honestly, I can totally understand how a kid could be scared by the wizard, and the clockman scene itself
Honestly this isn't scary.
Its pretty chill and the music was nice.
Yea but a child might find the wizard a little off, especially around the time this was aired.
@@itsraventm yeah, that was probably the creepiest thing expetialy when he took the girl to his house
*takes off his shirt* : hi welcome to
@@SteveOnlin F
@@rejectrealism hi welcome to chillys
Everyone here is talking about how this is more wholesome than creepy, but the part where he enters her home is creepy as shit because of the music in the background
Lol ok Ricardo
No it’s creepy because you know rape occurred at some point
Not really it's like the sneaking music for red dead redemption 2
not really
The entirety of this is creepy for me, I mean, she looks like she got a makeover from The Joker, and even when she jumped rope and got closer to the camera, that was horrifying
I think most of the scariness factor comes from the animation style. I was constantly worried that a giant, monochromatic foot was going to descend from the heavens and squish somebody.
This definitely was stored in my ancient childhood memories. There were quite a few of these unsettling shorts on the already, "creepy as hell" pinwheel show. Mostly because even at such a young age, I saw it as a value brand version of Sesame Street and just felt, off... Lol.
Imagine creating a good children's cartoon about a silly wonky-looking wizard trying to teach a girl to always tell the truth, just to be described as something from the pits of hell by someone on the internet.
I know There no "terrifyinging adventure". I seriously doubt this is it, if it was real.
@@michaelflores9220 The poster had a fever at the time. Not to mention he was young. His memory was probably twisted being so young and seeing the creepy art style.
Mmm yeah... Sally was super scared.
Okay but this is weird. Why did the wizard kidnap her. Why is there even a wizwrd. Wizards are evil
@@beanerb822 he didn't intend to hurt her, he just brought her attempting to convince her to tell her mother
The mother has no issue with a strange bearded man kidnapping her daughter? Ok.
Maybe she was asleep
Because the mum had met the wizard as well obviously
Panda Duos well sally told her after
they both treated it like a dream. at the end when sally tells her mom the truth, her mom tells her she had a dream like that too. also it was even mentioned that sally fell asleep before the weird stuff happened to her directly, then she also woke up. so it was more like a dream to her, but the gloves on her bed made it seem more real.
who do you think is sally's dad?
This story is a lot sweeter and wholesome than I thought it would be...this is cute!
Same.
The grainy seventies animation can kinda make it creepy but it’s nothing like how it was first described
H D tbf OP did have a fever at the time and his sick kid brain probably took the scariest part and ran with it.
End Cat ye i have memories of watching looney tunes when i stayed home sick with the flu and i remember nothing but horror and they were genuine and wholesome episodes
Honestly. And when the wizard returned her home safe and sound, telling her that he had her mother crochet some stars for him too when she was a kid. And he even gave her an extra pair of gloves to give to her mother! 😊
I love how Mr. Cadabra is firm but also encouraging with her. He holds her accountable but lets her know she did a good job when she finishes making the stars. Kinda forward-thinking for its time, not making kids feel horrible if they do lie but showing that dishonesty results in having to do extra work to fix your original mistake. It’s a really cute story. Also, yeah, he’s not scary at all, but the art style is super whimsigoth and I could see how CommanderSanta would’ve been spooked by his appearance and the way he scolds Sally while he was a sick kid.