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Grunt Machine - Opening Titles

Television (Excerpts) – 1975

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Two long versions and a short version of the titles for the late night rock show; and a first attempt at animation for Avalon graphic designer Mike Peebles who was just out of art school. Sensibility is horror meets underground comics with a touch of Monty Python - but Peebles was anxious to avoid existing imagery (excepting the Rolling Stones mouth for the "wah-wah" voice). The first features a voice somewhere between Vincent Price and Isaac Hayes, ending with the invocation "and buckets of blood, baby". The end of the second is more matter of fact.

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Mike Peebles

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Television One (TV One)

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Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision - TVNZ Collection

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History of NZ television music shows