Speed Racer pre-1990s open and close
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The American dubbed version of this 1967 Japanese show ran for decades with this opening: note the Trans-Lux logo at the beginning, now gone, and the old Speed Racer logo. End credits, with original font, also included. When the show was remastered by a new owner of the property around 1990, the Trans-Lux logo was removed and the other details noted above were changed.
More detailed history:
It was a 1967 Japanese show called Mach GoGoGo (adapted from a manga) that was later imported to the US and elsewhere and ran all through the 70s and 80s.
After being syndicated on aging and muddy 16mm dubs all those years, around 1990 a new owner of the franchise remastered the show onto video from the original elements, and thus had to rebuild the English version of the opening, at which time the logo was updated, credits redone, and reference to the original licensor, Trans-Lux, removed.
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0:46 I love how he actually KILLS somebody in the intro of the goddamn show.
Man, You Don't Fuck With Speed.
Alex Greggary I think that was two other cars behind Speed getting together, but your point is well, well taken!
No +Michael Val Hietter, that was another driver bumping into the Mach 5 driven by Speed Racer. It was an accident, but that's irrelevant because even accidentally fucking with Speed Racer can & will get you killed.
It was an accident +Alex Greggary, but even accidentally fucking with Speed Racer can & will get you killed.
***** Whether it was an accident or not, that guy did NOT make it out of that explosion alive. Even if he did survive, his entire body would be covered in third degree burns.
Hes a demon and hes gonna chase after someone. MUHAHAHAHAHA
1:01 Car drives up at 3fps
1:04 Perfect 120fps rotation
spent the budget all in one place I see
Spumoon then they moved it to Cartoon Network in the late 90's
you have to remember that they drew every single frame in the 1960s lol nothing was truly "animated" it was all drawings being flipped through rapidly
That is the very definition of animation.
I don’t understand.
Ahhhhh the good old days....running home after school....skipping homework....just to watch this
I would skip homework whether this was on or not.
Oh dear lord, you are sooooo right!
I know right! It started right when I got home from school not a minute later
exactly....good, great memories!!!
jfilesgraphics You Must Be 50+
Love that mid 60's Herb Alpert & Tijuana Brass sound.
You know what's sad? My mom & uncle grew up watching some of the greatest founding animes and when I asked them about it, they didn't even know what the hell anime was.
We didn't call it anime in prehistoric times.
It was Japanimation, till someone got their tits in a ringer
Well ... the term "anime" wasn't in use back then . Perhaps if you used "japanese cartoon" instead ... But yes ! Those were GREAT animes ... I remember a lot of them ! 😉
Growing up watching Godzilla (with my Mom), Speed Racer, Ultra Man and Battle of the Planets in the 70s along with my brother were some of the best cartoons of that period.
You are correct! BOTP was so far ahead of its time!
I wonder how many kids watched this and later posed like Speed did in front of their first cars.
I'm 13, and although it's not my generation who grew up with this show, I still have watched it since I was little. Sucks that I can't mention Speed Racer casually to anyone my age without being looked at like I have six heads. Why the hell doesn't everyone watch this show?
people that were born in like the late 80's and early 90's we only had the tv to watch, or those that seen it before. in my opinion your friends are missing out this is a great show. what's not to love with a catchy opening, people literally fucking dying and a great damn story. this show rocks and stands the test of time.
+random dude I know right? What's not to offer?
Dude me too! My friends just know speed racer from the crappy movie that's it! It's sad
+The Crimson Rocket such a sad life one must live
The Crimson Rocket that movie is an abomination against humanity lol
hello,american and english people.
i am japanese at 15 yaers old.i speak english a little.
america and england are japanese best friend.
Your English is quite good if you only speak a little.
Wish this was 3 years ago, you've probably know a lot more then back then.
You don't need to be derogatory. You can say Japanese instead of 'Jap'. Spouting racial slurs shows how ignorant you are.
Angela Woolsey Indeed.
Angela Woolsey The racist fucker didn't reply. Looks like you shut him up.
I miss this show...literally going back and watching all these kickass shows from back in the day and yet they are still 10 times better than whats out there now
Shows of today are regressing. It is almost offensive to the eyes.
We believe that. They frankly don't. Lost generation!
Without a doubt, one of the best TV title sequences (and theme songs) ever created- and just the way I remember it. Thanks so much for sharing this.
This is what makes TH-cam great.
Did Speed just flat out murder that guy?
It was an accident Morty Smith
In any case, it's always best not to fuck with Speed.
You should watch the live action film...
I saw it Mystic, it was awful.
Nah you can see the driver eject from the car for a split second
@@thisissparta789789 that was the car tyre
It was a simpler time then...
_weeaboos didn't exist_
It seems simpler, but was it?
G&OStudios
Indeed, we could enjoy our Japanese anime _without_ a wave of "sugoi desu nya" nonsense.
Can't truly be proven, weeabo as defined is a western civilian so much into anime it should be a crime. Sure in the 80s you probably had the occasional "Dirty Pair" fanatic or maybe some 30 year old reminiscing "Speed Racer", But back then it was taken normally since no one was Naruto running or doing the weird things we see today. Anime culture has become so predictable, shame... My point is their were no weebs in the 80s or early 90s simply because it wasn't as mainstream in the west as it is today. Mid 90s is when I'd say the overweight, acne covered, always sweating fiends came out their hole... Give it a pint of "Sailor Moon" and a dash of "Pokemon" and you flipped the world upside down.
This was my Dad's favorite show growing up. When my Dad first showed me it, I absolutely loved it and I still do today cheesy acting and all. My dad grew up with Speed, I grew up with Speed and chances are when I have kids, I'm gonna have them watch Speed. I pretty much have my Dad to thank for inadvertently causing my interest in anime and manga.
Hey count me on this! My Dad told my Mom he liked this and even sang the song! We just recently bought him a Speed Racer tie on eBay and boy are we excited to give it to him!
Interesting fact it took the five days to translate this since English sentences are shorter than Japanese the had to make a lot of run on sentences ( wouldn't make sense if they stopped talking with there mouths still moving) love this show to death.
Here he comes
Her comes Speed Racer
He's a demon on wheels
He's a demon and he's gonna be chasin' after someone.
He's gainin' on you so you better look alive.
He's busy revvin' up a powerful Mach 5.
And when the odds are against him
And there's dangerous work to do
You bet your life Speed Racer
Will see it through.
Go Speed Racer
Go Speed Racer
Go Speed Racer, Go!
He's off and flyin' as he guns the car around the track
He's jammin' down the pedal like he's never comin' back
Adventure's waitin' just ahead.
Go Speed Racer
Go Speed Racer
Go Speed Racer, Go!
bibi felix Homosexual spotted.
Thank you for posting original theme of speed racer. This is how I remember it back in the seventies: original is always the best.
R.I.P Paul Walker at 0:46
***** lmao
Billy Carter ..
dude wtf bruh
Dude... No
Ностальгия! Я впервые смотрел Спиди гонщика 9 лет назад, как же мне нравилось его смотреть. Как же время летит быстро.
stop dont do it
As a you teen who use to watch this show although it's out of my generation, I can say this is the best show I've ever watched... the innocent days
I used to watch this as a kid in the 70's and loved it. It was one of my favourite cartoons. A "demon on wheels" more like a homicidal maniac on wheels. Lol. Thanks for the upload.
"He's a demon and he's gonna be chasing after someone" #lyrics
Cuz he's a demon on wheels...
My favorite TV show as a kid and will stay my in heart forever.
Actually, the show was about Speed Racer and his car, the Mach 5, built by his dad, Pops Racer.
Speed had two brothers, Spritle (who had the chimp, Chim Chim - they often hid in the Mach 5's trunk) and Rex (who ran away to become Racer X).
Speed's girlfriend was Trixie, who could be very jealous. His mechanic was a kid named Sparky.
Speed Racer often encountered criminals while racing, so he worked with Inspector Detector frequently. There were 52 episodes made.
I'm 28, and I miss seeing that in all its original 1967 glory from the VHS tapes...
WOW YOU ARE SO RIGHT! - there are other SR opening sequences on here but the Trans - Lux logo at the beginning tends to be missing. In fact when this show was resurrected in my teenage years on channel 68, i clearly remember thinking what a cool, 1960s name "Trans-Lux" was. I even remembered it several years ago and googled it, and it turned out to be an outfit that provided sort of animated data display sort of things, and my former employer had actually used them - but it seemed like the company's Speed Racer days had faded into the mists of time...
fascinating, really, if you have the time to read about this stuff - but here's wishing you all, unlike me, have better things to do with your lives
That's because distribution passed from Trans-Lux Television to other companies, beginning in the 1970's.....the current distributor had "new" titles created in the early '90s.
Deedeethekingofqns Trans-Lux started in the movie business in the 1930's as a theatre operator. Their theatres used a rear-projection system behind a translucent silk screen (the root of the name Trans-Lux, lux being Latin for light.) Trans-Lux theatres showed continuous programs of newsreels and cartoons, with the program repeating every hour. They were located in large downtown areas, mainly on the east coast, and catered to audiences of businessmen on their lunch hours and travelers "killing time" between trains. In the 50's, they switched to feature films, but by the 70's most had deteriorated into porn theatres, and soon closed altogether.
In addition to Speed Racer, Trans-Lux also backed and distributed the TV cartoon series Felix the Cat and The Mighty Hercules, and an incredibly cheapo series of slapstick comedy shorts, Mack and Myer For Hire.
No one has every moment filled with such excitement that they don't have time to read stuff like that.
Spanish speaking networks had the original prints, my sister said the new remastering edited way too much and she hated new logo. We do not speak spanish but watched those on channel 66 because they were the real run episodes. I wish somewhere a dvd company finds the original prints and re releases them as is or delicate retouching to the images
@@jeffmissinne3866 Johnny Nash (of I Can See Clearly Now fame) sang the Mighty Hercules theme song: th-cam.com/video/vQRasr-0hsM/w-d-xo.html
My daughter Rheilly used to watch "Speed Racer" back in the 90s. It was her favorite anime when she was 3 years old.
This cartoon was launched during June 1966 - May 1968.
According to Wikipedia, it launched in April 1967. The manga source material, however, was indeed printed in 1966.
TreadwellJay
It was generally syndicated in the fall of 1967. In New York, WPIX-TV aired it once a week, on weekday afternoons.
Barry I. Grauman then Cartoon Network got the show in the mid 1990’s
I remember this show on Willie Webber show on channel 17 WPHL in Philadelphia. The show would air during the fall at 5:30 pm Monday- Friday. What memories!
1:04 (that 3D camera segment is awesome!)
+saidoterodiseno
Now I wish it was in the movie! Came here after someone said this starting inspired "Bullet Time" in The Matrix, so I had to check!
I'm amazed...they even kept the tune at the EXACT SAME TONE as the original Mach Go Go Go opening's. You'd never see that in any dubbed-over anime today.
What’s funny as they weren’t always like this back then, they did it here and there, but 90% of the time they changed many songs and stuff for Animes back then when they got dubs, nowadays they’d use a lot of the songs 90% from the original Japanese version, they would occasionally dub some Anime songs, but that is more rare nowadays. :)
@@princesspeachfan100 apparently some intro songs are in English by default. A few anime I watched recently had English songs, and I got curious about the original Japanese version of the intro, and it was exactly the same when I googled it
But yeah, things have certainly changed in the past 15 years. Most anime, if not all, leave the original music when dubbed, not even bothering to translate it with subtitles at times
Japanese musician KOBAYASH Asei has passed away. His original music is the best.
Always enjoyed 'Speed Racer' growing up (still do) and the movie was fantastic fun and eye candy technicolor entertaining!
This show was a very small but memorable part of my childhood. Sometimes they'd play it on Speed TV, but I never had that channel, so whenever I watched it, we were at a hotel or my cousin's house. It was always great.
I'm about to turn 31, & this takes me back to my childhood!
Какая ностальгия! Как же хочется попасть в прошлое и посмотреть ещё раз Спиди гонщика как раньше! 🥲
When I was about seven or eight, this was one of my favourite TV shows. I'd come home from school, plunk myself down in front of the TV and wait until four o'clock, which was when the show usually aired.
Hard to believe that was nearly forty years ago.
Watching the opening and closing sequences here on TH-cam brings back lots of happy memories. Memories that seem as fresh as yesterday.
Wow. I remember growing up with this Japanese cartoon when I was just a kid in the early 70's. The other one that I remember watching was Gigantor. I remember how excited I would get when I came home from School. I couldn't wait to see these episodes. In retrospect - It's amazing how serious you take this stuff when your a kid. I mean, when your at that age - maybe 8, 9, or 10 years old, these cartoons are so real too you. Well, at least back in those days, that's the way it was. Kids now a days grow up much faster - too fast in my opinion. I still look back at them with a fond sense of nostalgia - although you of course out-grow these things as you become an adult. It really is true - we all have just one childhood.
Those were the days, when televisions still had knobs, no remote, no cell phones, no home computers and no cable tv. Simple times.
Awesome, awesome video. I love the end when they have that "evolution of the automobile" montage. Good stuff.
Thanks so much for posting this. You can't screw with 60's style! I also wish the producers of the live action movie had watched this closer. The lines of the Mach 5 are sharp, it has curves, but it isn't the rounded beach buggy that they turned it into. It's part of why it still looks modern 40+ years later.
oh boy,what a beautiful memories,i remember this program because i saw it when i was a kid,is amazing
The detail, shading and artwork in the 1960's Speed Racer still rivals some modern anime. The Mach 5 remains one of the coolest car designs in history.
Mach 5, the Monkeemobile, the 60's Batmobile, Black Beauty, and Munster hearse are my favorite TV cars from the 60s.
watched this when i was little (born in 1991) and it is still good even after all these years. I wish there were cartoons like this for my generation.
I'm an American and grew up with this show. It was '60s and I was a '70s kid. My older sister actually did watch it in the '60s and influenced me though with this show not much influence was needed. Didn't get to see it complete and in order till '80 when UHF was blossoming....briefly... But love this show. This and Star Blazers were for me the early anime that totally turned me on. And both have great theme songs in Japanese and English!
Greatest closing credits ever (and fantastic opening ones as well.)
My sister always thought they were singing "Ghost Eraser" (not Go Speed Racer.)
"Ghost Eraser" doesn't seem like such a bad idea for a show!
My first anime growing up and it’s still iconic to this day.
omg thx for uploading it...i could'nt rmb watching or imagine how speed racer was when i was small but when i saw this it brings back old memories...=)
OH MY GOD! FINALLY I FOUND IT. THANK YOU SOON MUCH TH-cam. NOBODY GONNA BELIVE ME HOW CRAZY I WAS FOR THIS SHOW. OMG. After schools this is what I used to watch while having my lunch. OMG truly miss those days
I used to get home from school and watch this....amazing, I still know all the words to the song!
I hate it when they change the originals, just like Star Trek, when they updated the original series, I use to watch Speed Racer in the early 70s, after school, my friends and me would get together and watch it.
yeah the modern look barely got any love, in fact most people hated it so they killed it fast. I appreciate they tried to redo speed but, not like that lol.
I just loved Speed Racer as a kid! I sing the song to my second grade class and they all look at me as if I'd lost my mind! I loved how the vocals and the mouth animations were never really quite in sync! None of that matters because I still have the hots for Speed!
OMG. I remembered my brother watching this alot years ago!
I loved this TV show in my childhood...today,more than 40 years later,i cry watching this opening...thanks for posting...greetings from Brazil...just a little doubt...who i must thanks for my big emotion?Americans or Japanese?
luisbg63 Japan, it's an anime.
But, Americans put it in English! 😁
Ok...thanks.
I watched this as a kid, that and spectra man and others from that era. I loved watching them because of their corny special effects like gamera and mothra. Peiple in suits messing up small sets.
Those were the days.
I think by the time they did the remaster, the ownership of the US version had changed hands and Trans Lux was no longer involved.
yeah, Trans-Lux shut down Trans-Lux Television in the 1970s
Thank you SO MUCH for uploading this, I like to keep my childhood memories intact ;-)
I love Speed Racer! This is the pre-1990s Trans-Lux version of Speed Racer. In the early 1990s,the series came back as reruns on MTV broadcast in the early morning hours. It also aired on Cartoon Network in the late afternoon (and later on in late-night/overnight) from 1996-2002. Speed Racer also aired on the motorsports-centric network,Speed Channel (formerly Speedvision Network and Speed),(now Fox Sports 1).But no matter what I watch,Speed Racer is so awesome!
Giffton this is really 1967 intro cause at the begining it says trans lux and at 0:18 it has the original sperd racer logo.
I love how ending credits show the evolution of the automobile although the cars' wheels aren't turning.
If you look closely, there was a parachute to the left of the screen. The driver escaped safely.
I still watch the original 1960's Speed Racer, my favorite cartoon of all time!
it was 1982 when i saw this broadcasted from baltimore. this was my definition of art as a kid. it's nice 2 see the Trans-Lux opening again. i can't stand that damn logo they use in the dvds. great post, jay.
We need to give credit where credit is due. The American opening and closing themes were performed (uncredited) by Danny Davis and The Nashville Brass. And, if you didn't know, Trans-Lux is still around -- making those large dot-matrix boards you find at all of the sports betting parlors at casinos.
Iloved this cartoon then I was a little kid. Even now I had remembered this. Cool cartoon =D
My dad who watched this when was 6 was pleased to see the original. I found the opening that "claimed" to be from 1967 and it was noted to be incorrect, as he recalled the Trans-Lux logo and white lettering of Speed Racer, so we searched for the original.
Thanks for posting this original. Great audio quality, even though the video is a little grainy. :)
Happy 50th anniversary Speed Racer!
My dad remembers this show when he was in the hospital in 1967. He recalls a another cbs station in Lincoln at the time,probably a lower power one.
I wasn't around in the 60s, 70s or early 80s (born in 89) but I loved this show as a kid and used to come home from school getting excited to watch this (and many other great shows at the time). This opening is amazingly good as well as catchy and easy to sing to. My mom claims she used to have a crush on Speed as a teenager which is probably no surprise that any teen girl at the time had a crush on him. Never knew this was originally Japanese though.
This is a lot older than 1990! I watched this in black & white on our old TV when I was 7 in 1968!
I like how they have the antique cars at the end.
I remember how my little brother in law was addicted to Speed Racer back in 1972 when he was 8 years old and I would visit his 15 year old sister ( my wife of 41 years ) in Lennox, ( Los Angeles County ) California.......It's been 42 years, he is 50 now, and I still remind him how much he loved Speed Racer...
.CM González, ( Sierra Cuban ) Miami, Florida, U.S.A. ( Oct. 2014 )
What a great episode of speed racer
I had a Mach 5 car thing then I lost it
Saddest day of my life
;(
I had a speed racer helmet. I wore it EVERYWHERE. And then I lost it.
;((((
+Mystic i had every speed racer collection but i had to give it away because i was getting older
i should have keep one thing to always make me remember it
TheFanguy123 I had a hotwheels Mach 5 and Mach 6. I even have that car that looks a an F1 car and I have racer X. I even had a DVD of the classic series.
Same
such MEMORIES! i love this show. brought me a smile :) i was sooo in love with him when i was little tehe!
I'm so glad to see this on youtube, because the 90s credits misspelled voice actor Jack Grimes' last name as "Crimes". Jack Grimes was a veteran VA for over 20 years when he agreed to voice Sparky, Chim-Chim and others on this show. He voiced Jimmy Olsen in the 40s Superman Radio show, a role he reprised for the '67 Superman cartoon at the same time he was doing Speed Racer. He died in 2009.
Jack Grimes voiced the biggest villians in Speed Racer along with Jack Curtis My favorite villian of Mr. Grimes is Snake Oiler.
I still remember when they had this show on TV. I was a big fan of speed racer when I was little. watching this really brings good memories. Thanks
Thanks for posting this! I miss the Trans-Lux logo ... the original fonts at the end ... the correct speed when the whole thing plays ... again, thank you.
Bless you for getting the point of the movie! I felt the EXACT same way (and was lucky enough to catch it in IMAX).
Auto-Jacks & bright colors FTW!
I miss this show so much and I remember they still ran the original openings and closing segments from the syndicated versions in the 1970`s
This is a fond memory of my childhood, interesting note, the intro's top view graphics remind me of some of the retro 80's racing video games I play.
i used to sing chorus over and over again when i was just a child. i still remember it.
go speed racer, go speed racer, go speed racer go!
I grew up in NYC, and there used to be a Tras Lux movie theatre on Madison and 85th (torn down in the 80's). I never knew until years later Trans Lux had a chain of them. They're still in business, but, no longer any connection with their past. Speed... still the coolest guy - with the coolest car. The movie's Mach 5 was a sad imitation. A friend once saw in a bathroom: 'Speed Racer fans are EVERYWHERE.' Love it. Thanks!
I still remember this themesong from when I first saw it - sure, it was the 90s, but I used to watch this ALL THE TIME. I sing this at school. XD
Thanks! I've been looking for how the original intro to the show looked, and actually, aside from the huge logo in the beginning, I think this intro looks better. The 1990s intro was done by the current licensor at the time, Speed Racer Enterprises.
Tatsunoko regained the rights to Speed Racer in 2013 after Speed Racer Enterprises went out of business, and the current DVD/BluRay versions recreated the pre -1990 Speed Racer font opening;
Thank you posting this!Takes me back to childhood
1:03 - I always love that 90 degree turn every single time I see it.
Quando criança não perdia um episódio!
Now THIS is the TRUE, ORIGINAL, BONI-FIED opening and closing
to the original Speed Racer 1960's cartoon, with the Trans-Lux logo,
not the computerized, badly-pitched version!
What I wouldn't give to get a complete collection from the original Trans Lux masters (grainy and faded though they may be). The cartoon network in addition to the new open logo (which I hate) also time condensed the series so that everything (especially the theme tune) now sounds horribly sped up.
I remember that. The DVD releases I recall also used the 90s Cartoon Network prints
That was done to squeeze in more commercials.
wowcrap Funimation is planning a blu ray version.
Sailor PokeMoon2, I hope they do an re-dubbed English UNCUT version of the series.
Man I feel so old after watching this. The nostalgia is real 😭😭😭
Sweet memories of my childhood on 70's...everytime i see this video, tears come down of my face...good times that will never come back...just one doubt:Who must i thanks for that?Japan or USA ?
awesome horns at the ending
I was born in 1971 and this is literally the first show I remember watching--around 1974 on channel 52 in L.A..
I remember my wife's brother watching Speed Racer in Los Angeles back in 1972....
Very nice memories.......He was 8 years old, I was 19.........
now this is the REAL SPEEEEEDDDDD! wow, nice and loved this cartoon!
Brings back memories of the great old days..Go speed racer goooooo
i remember watching this when i was 5 or 6 i used to love it!!
The song was performed by Danny Davis and the Nashville Brass (they recorded the American version of the theme- lyrics by Peter Fernandez) on the soundtrack. For the closing version of the theme, they used some of Danny's office staff as backup vocalists...
i remember sittin and watching the remastered version of this on saturday mornings with my dad. i blame him for turning me into an Otaku :P
I was a kid of the 70's. I used to run home from school every day as fast as I could to watch Speed Racer. Back then one could not record television, so you had to watch your show when it aired or you'd miss it. I remember when VCR's first came out. At first they were called VTR's (Video Tape Recorders.)
Awesome! This is the way how I remember the opening and closing for Speed Racer, before it was remastered! Thanks a million for posting this.
Oh boy childhood memories ❤️
Speed Racer :( Miss those days.