Now is the time on Sprockets when we dance
January 22, 2016 8:58 AM Subscribe
How will we dance in the future? The 1966 German science fiction series Raumpatrouille Orion has a few ideas. (previously)
My husband loves this show. He keeps trying to get our 3-year-old interested in it. Maybe the funky future go-go dance is the way way in for a preschooler?
posted by soren_lorensen at 9:10 AM on January 22, 2016
posted by soren_lorensen at 9:10 AM on January 22, 2016
Surprisingly accurate.
posted by oddman at 9:12 AM on January 22, 2016 [4 favorites]
posted by oddman at 9:12 AM on January 22, 2016 [4 favorites]
Recreating this should totally become a MiFi Meetup tradition!
posted by sammyo at 9:15 AM on January 22, 2016 [1 favorite]
posted by sammyo at 9:15 AM on January 22, 2016 [1 favorite]
The dance is awesome but the space mall music I could live without.
posted by duncan42 at 9:22 AM on January 22, 2016
posted by duncan42 at 9:22 AM on January 22, 2016
I once watched all of them in a row at a SciFi festival in Germany. It damn near fried my brains.
posted by Hairy Lobster at 9:23 AM on January 22, 2016
posted by Hairy Lobster at 9:23 AM on January 22, 2016
Its like the choreography from Happy Feet minus the wing flapping.
posted by Nanukthedog at 9:41 AM on January 22, 2016 [2 favorites]
posted by Nanukthedog at 9:41 AM on January 22, 2016 [2 favorites]
I want the next person who remakes Pride and Prejudice to use this choreography for the Elizabeth/Darcy Netherfield ball scene.
posted by bibliowench at 9:44 AM on January 22, 2016 [3 favorites]
posted by bibliowench at 9:44 AM on January 22, 2016 [3 favorites]
Well, let's just have somebody set the entirety of Pride and Prejudice in a 1960s German scifi series and be done with it because that's something I need even more than I need the dance to become a MeFi Meetup tradition, which I need very much.
posted by MCMikeNamara at 9:49 AM on January 22, 2016 [10 favorites]
posted by MCMikeNamara at 9:49 AM on January 22, 2016 [10 favorites]
All right, somebody get the subtitles from the Hitler meme videos lined up, and we'll start transcribing them onto this. It's going to be a long night, people.
posted by Naberius at 10:06 AM on January 22, 2016 [1 favorite]
posted by Naberius at 10:06 AM on January 22, 2016 [1 favorite]
The key to understanding future space dancing is to realize it has the same grammatical structure as sanskrit.
posted by aramaic at 10:38 AM on January 22, 2016 [4 favorites]
posted by aramaic at 10:38 AM on January 22, 2016 [4 favorites]
So I guess the movie Top Secret! was ahead of it's time.
posted by PlusDistance at 10:53 AM on January 22, 2016 [1 favorite]
posted by PlusDistance at 10:53 AM on January 22, 2016 [1 favorite]
....and they didn't even know about Molly. Amazing.
posted by lumpenprole at 11:31 AM on January 22, 2016 [1 favorite]
posted by lumpenprole at 11:31 AM on January 22, 2016 [1 favorite]
The key to understanding future space dancing is to realize it has the same grammatical structure as sanskrit.
posted by aramaic
eponyndoeurosterical
posted by progosk at 11:34 AM on January 22, 2016 [1 favorite]
posted by aramaic
eponyndoeurosterical
posted by progosk at 11:34 AM on January 22, 2016 [1 favorite]
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Perhaps you were thinking of his friends Hittite or Farsi?
posted by Octaviuz at 11:37 AM on January 22, 2016
Perhaps you were thinking of his friends Hittite or Farsi?
posted by Octaviuz at 11:37 AM on January 22, 2016
yeah, saw them straws, grasped... the rest is (half-remembered) history
posted by progosk at 11:47 AM on January 22, 2016
posted by progosk at 11:47 AM on January 22, 2016
Stolz und Vorurteil und Außerirdische
posted by TheWhiteSkull at 12:51 PM on January 22, 2016 [1 favorite]
posted by TheWhiteSkull at 12:51 PM on January 22, 2016 [1 favorite]
I saw a movie-length piece that I assume was stitched together from several episodes
Yes, the 2003 movie was made from three of the original seven episodes of the show (with some new scenes to make the transitions smoother). While the dance was unnamed in the original series, the movie recut introduced the name "Galyxo".
So, Raumpatrouille Orion. As a (German) teenager in the 90s, I discovered a huge stack of my father's old Raumpatrouille novels (after one novel for every original episode, the author of the novelisations just continued publishing a novel a month). It wasn't great Science Fiction, but still an addictive read; and after reading everything I could find, I really wanted to watch the show. The only problem was, they never showed it on TV, so I had to wait a few years until they finally released it on VHS. (And I wasn't even disappointed, even after years of unmanaged expectations).
And then they released the movie. While I think I avoided being all "I was into this way before it was cool", I still felt a little cheated - I had to wait for so long and to actively search for everything, and now it was suddenly hard to avoid hearing about Raumpatrouille. (And today, I can just hop over to Youtube and watch episodes in full.)
Anyway, even after all those years, I still hum the melody of the intro every few weeks.
posted by erdferkel at 1:28 PM on January 22, 2016 [4 favorites]
Yes, the 2003 movie was made from three of the original seven episodes of the show (with some new scenes to make the transitions smoother). While the dance was unnamed in the original series, the movie recut introduced the name "Galyxo".
So, Raumpatrouille Orion. As a (German) teenager in the 90s, I discovered a huge stack of my father's old Raumpatrouille novels (after one novel for every original episode, the author of the novelisations just continued publishing a novel a month). It wasn't great Science Fiction, but still an addictive read; and after reading everything I could find, I really wanted to watch the show. The only problem was, they never showed it on TV, so I had to wait a few years until they finally released it on VHS. (And I wasn't even disappointed, even after years of unmanaged expectations).
And then they released the movie. While I think I avoided being all "I was into this way before it was cool", I still felt a little cheated - I had to wait for so long and to actively search for everything, and now it was suddenly hard to avoid hearing about Raumpatrouille. (And today, I can just hop over to Youtube and watch episodes in full.)
Anyway, even after all those years, I still hum the melody of the intro every few weeks.
posted by erdferkel at 1:28 PM on January 22, 2016 [4 favorites]
I really like that move at the end where they rest their chin on their partner's shoulder & grab each other's knees. I may have to try that sometime. Can't be much worse than my usual moves.
posted by scalefree at 1:42 PM on January 22, 2016 [1 favorite]
posted by scalefree at 1:42 PM on January 22, 2016 [1 favorite]
A little too much like a futurist Viennese waltz to be quite believable.
posted by blucevalo at 1:59 PM on January 22, 2016
posted by blucevalo at 1:59 PM on January 22, 2016
I think I've done that at work as part of a team-building retreat.
posted by hydrophonic at 6:58 PM on January 22, 2016 [2 favorites]
posted by hydrophonic at 6:58 PM on January 22, 2016 [2 favorites]
That was different. And so funny I'm rotfflmao. Perfect watching while sitting out a blizzard.
posted by james33 at 3:05 AM on January 23, 2016
posted by james33 at 3:05 AM on January 23, 2016
Did Klaus Nomi watch this?
posted by lagomorphius at 11:39 AM on January 23, 2016
posted by lagomorphius at 11:39 AM on January 23, 2016
The best part of Raumpatrouille Orion was always the fantastic set dressing... in particular this steam iron futuristic control interface.
posted by Hairy Lobster at 12:00 PM on January 26, 2016
posted by Hairy Lobster at 12:00 PM on January 26, 2016
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Raumpatrouille Orion is big fun. I saw a movie-length piece that I assume was stitched together from several episodes at the Boston Sci-Fi Film Festival/Marathon several years ago.
posted by rmd1023 at 9:08 AM on January 22, 2016