Rock Odyssey (found Hanna-Barbera animated film; 1987)

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Status: Partially Found

Starting in 1981 Hanna Barbera had come up with the idea of an animated TV special for ABC titled Rock Odyssey. The film would be shelved because of violent and graphic imagery until the mid-1980s where the project would resume production. The film would feature many popular songs by Jerry Lewis, The Beatles, and Wham! being covered by their own singers. It take's you through a tour with the history of rock, The Jukebox voiced by Scatman Crothers is your host. Overall it's a very confusing, pretty, and pscyhedelic animated movie that not many know of. Surprisingly, though uncredited Rock Odyssey was co-directed by Robert Taylor. The same man who directed the first R-Rated animated film, The Nine Lives Of Fritz The Cat.

The Music

Many songs are highly recognizable, some by The Beatles, others by Elvis Presley. There was a small argument over whether or not the film should use the original songs. But in the end, Robert Taylor had decided to do something "fresh" and record covers of the songs himself with a hired band. The film received low reviews, never being released on VHS or DVD later in the future. It never was aired on television again since 1987 until 2010 on Boomerang Southeast Asia.

Availablity

There is a copy of this film available for viewing in the Library of Congress, but there is nowhere to buy it or watch it publically. There are copies of the movie on YouTube and Dailymotion, but they are both in low quality, split into pieces, in Spanish (due to them being recorded from a TVE airing, although the songs are still in English.) and missing scenes. However, on August 25, 2018, LMW user EL_PRESIDENTE found the movie in high quality, although that copy is in Spanish too. The full 90 minute English version remains lost, though there is a low-quality English version available, made from various sources by LMW user Ziggy Stardust. It is made from as many available online scenes as possible but was edited together before the Spanish dub's discovery, so the quality is less than satisfactory. It is highly unlikely that this film will see the light of day again to the public. Warner Brothers now own Hanna Barbera and have seemingly completely forgotten about its existence, or has chosen to ignore it.

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A still from the movie

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