This is the best depiction of alien life in any sort of fiction I've ever seen. Aliens would evolve completely differently from Earth life so why would they look like people with green skin? We have to think about why these alien creatures would evolve the way they do and this short does that!
@@squidyspecifications7709 The absolute best? You realize other alien worlds crafted after this are also good, and plus there doesn’t seem to be any coherent taxonomy for this so that bumps it down
Even though some of the alien designs are kind of goofy (especially the buzzsaw-headed rock eating animal), many of them are super solid designs for spec evo aliens. I especially love that shrimp/snail like animal that has the segmented shell that opens upward.
You should see the movie “nope”, basically has the same thing but worse, some giant living comical stereotypical ufo looking creature that eats prey by sucking it into its mouth like a ufo tractor beam.
There is a last part to this, talking about life on Mars in caves, and civilizations they made, my dad has a CD of this, and some of it seems to be cut off.
I would imagine something like this could exist, just not in the way depicted. Like how your stomach "eats itself" when you havent eaten in a while. I think a similar process might be possible
It does sound silly. Perhaps it’s a species that lives constantly in its compensation point, with a version of respiration producing the reactants for a version of photosynthesis and maintaining some perfect equilibrium
A beautiful print of this show that has haunted my memories since I watched it on The Wonderful World of Disney as a kid in the 60s. The music sort of sounds like Forbidden Planet.
The creatures are great, but the end-- "beyond the capacity of the human mind"-- is astonishingly similar both in music and visuals to the Space Odyssey trip sequence.
I used to watch on the Disney channel when I was a kid in the 80's and even then, it was shown in the super early morning, or late at night. It stopped being shown because more modern cartoons wanted to be pushed and sold.
thank you so much for uploading this in a higher resolution! i’ve loved this short since i was a teenager but for a while the only video i could find was in 240p, so thrilled i can admire how detailed the animation is now!
In the late 1960s (before Pioneer); there was a scinetist at Caltech who subjected many types of earth plants and insects to Martian environments in so-called "Mars Jars"-these were sealed terrariums with thin air/low oxgen atmosperes and low temperatures-the environments know to exist on Mars at that time. I recall he found that many species could survive the severe conditions.
I remember reading a book about speculative life in the solar system that I read in the early 80's, circa 1981, it was published circa 1961. it was well-illustrated, wish I knew the title of it, I'd buy it on ebay right now
The animators did an excellent animation and draftsmanship on this subject matter. So good to see something that's done here in the USA that surpasses any studio of the 70s, 80s, 90s and 2000s. Only these animators.
I remember on Mickey Mouse Club and maybe Disney's Wonderful World of Color that there was an episode similar to this, with similar but different creatures and a much larger menagerie e.g. instead of that serpentine plant, there was a creature that sprouted 3 loops from the ground and a neck with 3 flower-like heads, a centaur with a flashing light on its head and which needs to insert a key into its own forehead to wind itself up, and then swallow the key before it can walk off, and a horseshoe crab like creature with lobster-like claws called a "rock eater" instead of that multilegged dust eating triops creature among others. Does anybody remember this episode and what its title is? It's also about alien life, just more than just Mars
Michael Hanretty No. But they did collaborate on other projects, including one that was only completed somewhat recently. I've never seen it, but it made the festival circuit a few years back.
MrGreedESwine Correct! Disney fans may know him as the voice of Disneyland's Haunted Mansion. He does every voice in this Tomorrowland special and I like to think of him as the narrator offspring of Orson Welles and Keith David!
If this was a book I would love to read it. Please, if anyone knows of any writers who have written a pseudoscientific book about life on other planets, kind of like a natural history book, please let me know!
You have no idea how many writers and worldbuilders have made things about life on other planets, (and with varying levels of scientific accuracy/plausibility, or even just pseudoscience). I’d suggest you look into speculative biology, speculative evolution and xeno/exobiology. All three, as the terms are scattered and “spec evo” also has subgenres that aren’t about aliens
This is the best depiction of alien life in any sort of fiction I've ever seen. Aliens would evolve completely differently from Earth life so why would they look like people with green skin? We have to think about why these alien creatures would evolve the way they do and this short does that!
Hello there Squidy, tis shrimp fascist.
@@moisttowlette1247 Why hello there my shrimpist friend, welcome to my TH-cam comment.
@@squidyspecifications7709 Oofle is here! Hello squidy!
I agree
@@squidyspecifications7709 The absolute best? You realize other alien worlds crafted after this are also good, and plus there doesn’t seem to be any coherent taxonomy for this so that bumps it down
Beautiful, well animated, creepy and imaginative! We need more things like this today!
Indeed
Not even Genndy Tartakovsky's Primal can match this.
Sadly, the authorities still haven't made LSD legal.
@@Khultan COMING SOON, STRANGE WORLD IS COMING, and most likely inspired by this animation short O.O
@@scoutart1508 I really hope so.
Even though some of the alien designs are kind of goofy (especially the buzzsaw-headed rock eating animal), many of them are super solid designs for spec evo aliens. I especially love that shrimp/snail like animal that has the segmented shell that opens upward.
There’s something comical, yet unsettling about a little cartoon UFO made of meat that hunts with a classic death ray.
You should see the movie “nope”, basically has the same thing but worse, some giant living comical stereotypical ufo looking creature that eats prey by sucking it into its mouth like a ufo tractor beam.
I did for that sole purpose, it was pretty cool! Jean Jacket goes for a more mollusk-like route while this little fella seems more jellyfish.
If there were a species of jellyfish or siphonophore that could evolve on earth to fly this is a possibility to happen
Love these speculative alien life animations. Thanks Laser Time for more cool stuff!
I hope a speculation about all solar system life venus mercury jupiter saturn moon ect
1:35 "... I'd like one beeping sand trilobite, please? Thank you."
There is a last part to this, talking about life on Mars in caves, and civilizations they made, my dad has a CD of this, and some of it seems to be cut off.
If may ask, what has been cut off?
“Or even plants that feed on themselves”
That seems impractical..for multiple reasons.
if it gets the job done it's practical
I would imagine something like this could exist, just not in the way depicted. Like how your stomach "eats itself" when you havent eaten in a while. I think a similar process might be possible
It does sound silly. Perhaps it’s a species that lives constantly in its compensation point, with a version of respiration producing the reactants for a version of photosynthesis and maintaining some perfect equilibrium
A beautiful print of this show that has haunted my memories since I watched it on The Wonderful World of Disney as a kid in the 60s. The music sort of sounds like Forbidden Planet.
Honestly this isn't that scary, it's more just realistic and fascinating, like a nature documentary.
if I was a kid this would make me shit my pants
@@milky_wayan I was a kid when I saw this, and I shit my hat
Realistic? Nah three of these creatures seem to be pushing the idea a little more than it should be.
The self feeding plants
The ground eaters
The migrating plants always gave me an eerie feeling...
The creatures are great, but the end-- "beyond the capacity of the human mind"-- is astonishingly similar both in music and visuals to the Space Odyssey trip sequence.
The innocent time of imagination before the Mariner flybys dashed all hope of finding a desert Mars with strange life, or a hot, swampy Venus.
I had no idea such a thing existed, pretty creepy, borderline nightmare fuel.
Excuse me!?
Easily scared
Have you watched any documentary about what actually exists on Earth? Just as crazy.
@@FrancescoDondiyea but ailen media is pretty boring in design. Like what? Random fossils used to make the design?
What the....???? Why am I just now seeing this?!?! This is freaking awesome!!!! Thanks for sharing this!!!!
I think I saw this as part of The Animation Show when it played at my college. Thanks for finding it! It's so cool.
William Rodgers Yes you did! I believe that's the only reason it was restored.
1:06 why is this critter so cute?
That was beautiful and nuts on it's own level! Why have I never seen anything like this before or since?
It used to be shown in classrooms in the early 1960s.
I used to watch on the Disney channel when I was a kid in the 80's and even then, it was shown in the super early morning, or late at night. It stopped being shown because more modern cartoons wanted to be pushed and sold.
Man, does this ever beat Star Trek and Star Wars.
Way better than the humans dipped in paint with glued on accessories that you’d find in those franchises.
Ah, the times before we had Mars landers..
thank you so much for uploading this in a higher resolution! i’ve loved this short since i was a teenager but for a while the only video i could find was in 240p, so thrilled i can admire how detailed the animation is now!
This art looks like Barlowes art.
In the late 1960s (before Pioneer); there was a scinetist at Caltech who subjected many types of earth plants and insects to Martian environments in so-called "Mars Jars"-these were sealed terrariums with thin air/low oxgen atmosperes and low temperatures-the environments know to exist on Mars at that time. I recall he found that many species could survive the severe conditions.
that place haunts my nightmares! great video
Awesome thanks Chris! I too saw this in the Animation Show tour, but didn't know when or what it was from.
Paul Frees narration! Always the best.
I saw this when I was a very young child and it TOTALLY blew my mind.
1:59 I see where they got the inspiration for Splat from Strange World.
These are so cool, thanks for uploading them Chris
I want to see these types of aliens in movies not just a blue human
Watch the show Scavengers Reign
Love the animation, the music and narration.
Bring. Back. This. Disney. 👽
this is frikin awesome. very surrealist
Show's like this is what compelled me to make the kind of paintings I make.
Just wonderfully surreal, and yet still based of scientific evidence.
First saw this as a kid in Elementary school... teacher showed it in class...probably 1st or 2nd grade... have thought of it often.
yep this is pure nightmare fuel
0:35 this is insanely well animated. that almost looks like it was rendered in 3D
This is amazing. Reminds me of Fantastic Planet.
The amazing and terryfing inhabitants from mars 👽
I remember reading a book about speculative life in the solar system that I read in the early 80's, circa 1981, it was published circa 1961. it was well-illustrated, wish I knew the title of it, I'd buy it on ebay right now
Did it by any chance have a small lizard like creature called a "Charmeleon" or something those lines?
Matt Forrest I believe you might be thinking of Picture Atlas of our Universe
Me encanta el hecho de que hicieron un platillo volador biologico xd
god i wish mars looked like this
Narrated by the immortal Paul Frees.
The animators did an excellent animation and draftsmanship on this subject matter.
So good to see something that's done here in the USA that surpasses any studio of the 70s, 80s, 90s and 2000s. Only these animators.
this is better than strange world.
Thanks Laser Time. This is exactly what I was looking for. How are you?
"life based on the silicon atom" they basically predicted JoJo rock humans lol
Imagine fans of Kingdom hearts who are casual Disney fans then confronting one of these creatures in a new Kingdom hearts.
Whoa weird. Got here from Reddit and realized you guys uploaded this.
Thank you, I had never seen this.
Magnificent
This video was ahead of its time in speculative evolution science
I remember on Mickey Mouse Club and maybe Disney's Wonderful World of Color that there was an episode similar to this, with similar but different creatures and a much larger menagerie e.g. instead of that serpentine plant, there was a creature that sprouted 3 loops from the ground and a neck with 3 flower-like heads, a centaur with a flashing light on its head and which needs to insert a key into its own forehead to wind itself up, and then swallow the key before it can walk off, and a horseshoe crab like creature with lobster-like claws called a "rock eater" instead of that multilegged dust eating triops creature among others. Does anybody remember this episode and what its title is? It's also about alien life, just more than just Mars
I can’t say that I really find this scary or remotely creepy.
Does anyone have any archives of the podcast or know where to find out more information about this animation?
I love the music
So basically Wayne Barlowe's "Expedition"? That needs another animated adaptation
feels Olaf Stapledon man
The acid is strong in this one.
How is it lost? We are looking right at it!
Chris: i know Dali and Disney worked together. Did Dali participate in the creation of this short?
Michael Hanretty No. But they did collaborate on other projects, including one that was only completed somewhat recently. I've never seen it, but it made the festival circuit a few years back.
2:38 my favourite alien
Reminds me of the xenworld.
What is the name of that voice actor?
Nicholas Veneroso Paul Frees
MrGreedESwine Correct! Disney fans may know him as the voice of Disneyland's Haunted Mansion. He does every voice in this Tomorrowland special and I like to think of him as the narrator offspring of Orson Welles and Keith David!
This is awesome!!
what about this is scary
The best!
You cannot comprehend the true form of giygas's attack
Love it...
War of the Worlds style!!
¿Dead Space 3 already launched his trailer?
4 sorry
I get Mass Effect Codex vibes from this.
Paul Frees. Your Ghost Host.
What year / date did this premiere?
1957
thanks@@kasjachrum, one of my favorite years!
What year was this made ?
sometime in the 1950's
It came from a longer feature called Mars and Beyond (1957)
Near The end reminded me of the tunnel from wily wonka
Que cursed están las criaturas
If this was a book I would love to read it. Please, if anyone knows of any writers who have written a pseudoscientific book about life on other planets, kind of like a natural history book, please let me know!
You have no idea how many writers and worldbuilders have made things about life on other planets, (and with varying levels of scientific accuracy/plausibility, or even just pseudoscience).
I’d suggest you look into speculative biology, speculative evolution and xeno/exobiology. All three, as the terms are scattered and “spec evo” also has subgenres that aren’t about aliens
Wayne Barlowe’s Expedition is a classic.
@@GillfigGarstangindeed it is, one of my favourite alien books out their
All tomorrows if you want speculative human evolution of the future
Neat.
Humans from Earth are the creepiest creatures
Are you a Martian or something?
This is too good, I don't believe that disney would have made it.
And this, kids, is why you don't do drugs!
Trippy.
Looks like at the 4:00 mark the acid kicks in...
May Walt Disney rot in hell!!!
how is this the version?
#RenewTheOrville
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Good thing I got a berserker pack and a BFG. :P
Plants do feed on themselves trchnically
InB4 "hE CoMeS"
Yea this was definitely 60s LSD
400th like, nice!
Looks like someone's been taking too much LSD...