dfox11
Available here: http://adifferentcity.com/viewtitle/5 In Color. From what they say on their website, this is totally legal, as the copyright has expired and it's now in the public domain.I'm not affiliated with the company. I ordered a copy on the night I'm writing this. So I haven't seen it yet and cannot vouch for it's quality. I will say that they have a small but really strong catalog of public domain items that are nigh on impossible to find elsewhere.Also, I'm foxlor's brother, and I insist that I was eight at the time, not nine. Sisters, they just lie about you. There's no getting away from it.
hiveminded
I was recently at an obscure movie party some friends of mine held and got to see this rare little gem of a flick. I was very surprised to see it was produced, directed and co-written by Jim Henson as the film began, and thought that I was probably in for a treat. I was not wrong. This film says volumes in the 50 minutes or so that it runs and definitely leaves the viewer with something to ponder. The acting is also not bad and the film being black and white somehow makes it more impacting. This is Henson at his best in my opinion. I hope this film becomes more available and gets some of the attention it most definitely deserves. And to think this was a movie on television in 1969..
oz-64
Like so many others here, I too saw it, when it was first run, as a teenager - WOW. And yes, I too can't get it out of my head, and just today learned that it was Jim Henson!!! The man WAS a genius!!! And, like the rest of you - I want a copy!!! Just to prove to my friends that I'm not as crazy as you think I am.I remember the band playing "You'll never get out.. You'll never get out... you'll never get out of the cube.."Towards the ending, when he's shown the casket... and given the gun... oh man.. that scene is vivid in my mind right now, 30+ years later after having seen it that one time, in', as we used to say, living color.But really.. isn't life all just strawberry jam?
doord
The Cube was shown on NBC as part of a series called Experiments in Television. To my knowledge it was only shown twice, but it was a wonderfully surreal program unlike anything I had ever seen before.The series showed other unusual things like a series of cartoons that were written by British playwright Harold Pinter.I certainly wish NBC would find these shows and re-air them, because in the year 2003, they would still look incredibly modern!
