It's baaaaaaaaaaaack

 


Outerscope II was a fascination for young lion, only because of the flying machine.  The fact that all that hacked garbage could fly anywhere, just with water, yeast, a hose & some umbrellas, was pretty impressive. A lion that age had no choice but to believe it really worked.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgvSbQ3_VhQ&list=PLTtJF3x_tn65FmanbtqYN6ggxr10Rdsnq

 


 

Looks like the show had another fan for exactly the same reason.  He only marked a few of the outerscope II episodes before getting tired of it. Gootube doesn't have episode 39. It's potato quality, like voyage of the mimi. 

Slightly higher quality scans are on an official government page. At 3 GB per episode, it would be quite difficult to download all 39 episodes. The gootube copy is a straight reupload with lower bitrate.

https://digitalcollections.archives.nysed.gov/index.php/Search/objects?search=vegetable+soup

Most episodes don't have any flying. Flying only happened in episodes 3, 4, 5, 10, 12, 13, 26, 27, 36, 37, 38, 39



The gootube copy definitely had some mangling done to it. Cinelerra didn't recover the 360 pixels of the encoded width because it prioritized the 327 of the wrapper width. This can be fixed by changing the 01 47 in the 1st 256 bytes to 01 68.

 


At least we now have 2x to make the kid dialogue more bearable. Besides the drop in quality, there's no going back to a 19" TV & 1x.



 

The red head was a hottie. They don't make muppets like that anymore. Her voice sounded more mature than the usual muppet.

 



Old lion recognized the water + sugar + yeast fuel as an analogy for a melting pot. The melting pot makes it go. A bit too early for CO2 production to be a scandal.



If a pile of garbage landed in 1977 New York city, would anyone notice? Apparently not. The urban decay of that time is recognizable to lions but would be foreign to anyone online today.

Surmised this was easy money for film school dropouts, desperate for anything they could get.

 

 





Spanish dancer in episode 27-28 was a hottie. Young lion didn't notice her either. Older than her mom now.

There were 21 minutes of flying related footage out of the 4 hour total. That was really the only attraction in the entire show. The lion kingdom cut together just the flying in case any aviation tubers found it interesting.


The spoiler characters were unbearable. Fast forward saw heavy use, but the intelligent midget & clumsy tall guy seemed to be the inspiration for Home Alone.

Their romp around Chinatown revived a memory of rounding the turn after the Manhattan bridge & running through chinatown at a 7 minute pace. It must have been shot in the same place, but has all been redeveloped in the last 50 years.


The kite maker's store still exists on the west side of the bridge.




& the introduction scene was west of that so none of it was on the race route.

Old lion couldn't feel any of the magic about this show that young lion felt. Voyage of the mimi was much more intriguing to old lion while young lion found that one boring. It's been quite a reversal. Voyage of the mimi never exited copyright, so higher quality is only available under DRM on an Apple player.

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Took a peak at season 1 episode 1 & it really is as terrifying as the internet says. It looks like the rolling giant. Much cruder, frowning puppets, which look like 19th century halloween masks. The gigantic paws are pretty terrifying. He had a serious ulterior motive with that saw. Surprised it got past any test screenings. Kid shows of 1975 were a different breed, but they got us to the moon.

Hard to believe the brighter season 2 hero prop emerged from such macabre beginnings. The archive.org copy of outerscope 1 is higher quality than the government copy.

Season 1 episode 2 revealed they based the propulsion on the way bread rises. Generating CO2 with yeast & trapping it in umbrellas would make them rise like bread. Unfortunately, CO2 better be heavier than air or plants are going to have a hard time. It wasn't a physics show. All lions could do was ponder how the apollo generation was so off. It must have been truly the very few who had access to knowledge in those days & formal education must have been far more essential to light the way than nowadays.





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