No Strings Attached

“What the Hey???”


“Good morning, Mrs. Lady. I’m selling Scout cookies – would you be interested in purchasing a box?”

Discovered by Scott Huffines during his Atomic Books tape-trading days, this is easily the strangest stop-motion animation clip we’ve ever seen – or aired. Yes, it was originally included as an extra on Atomic TV’s “1997 East Coast Video Show” episode.

Tom loves the disembodied Indian head doll the best; he can’t watch Will Sampson (Chief Bromden in “One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest”) now without seeing this bizarro image!

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About Chuck Vincent
From an Ebay auction for Chuck Vincent’s EROTIC ANIMATION FESTIVAL

From late 1970s on long out of print VCA label. PLOT & COMMENTARY : Legendary XXX stop motion animation shorts LE TOY SHOPPE and NO STRINGS ATTACHED. Amazing!!! Plus live action shorts THE APPOINTMENT and WILD HONEY. Early work from Nudie Comedy auteur CHUCK VINCENT.

BIO: Writer/director/producer/editor Charles Vincent Dingley was born on September 6, 1940 in Michigan. Vincent began his show business career in regional theater as a director and stage manager. He subsequently moved east and worked for both Yale Rep and the Negro Ensemble Company prior to founding the production company Platinum Pictures in New York City. Chuck made his cinematic debut in 1971 with the comedic adult short feature “The Appointment.” Vincent churned out a slew of often humorous and frequently arousing adult oriented movies from the early 70s up until the mid 80s which include “While the Cat’s Away,” “Blue Summer,” “Lecher,” “Heavy Load,” “Visions,” “Dirty Lily,” “Jack’n’Jill,” “Misbehavin’,” “Roommates,” “Puss’n’Boots,” “In Love,” “Bordello … House of the Rising Sun,” and “Sex Crimes 2084.” Among the popular porno thespians he regularly worked with are Veronica Hart, Samantha Fox, and Jamie Gillis. Outside of his porno fare, Chuck also did such more “legitimate” R-rated low-budget films as the amusing lowbrow comedies “Summer Camp,” “Hot T-Shirts,” “C.O.D.,” “Preppies,” “Hollywood Hot Tubs,” “Wimps,” “Sex Appeal,” “Slammer Girls,” and “New York’s Finest,” and the horror shocker “Deranged,” with Roberts Blossom, and the period action drama “Warrior Queen,” and the erotic thriller sequel “Bedroom Eyes II.” He appeared in small parts in a handful of his own pictures. Chuck Vincent died at age 51 from AIDS complications on September 23, 1991 in Key West, Florida.

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Nameneko Japanese Punk Rock Kittens

Nameneko Japanese Punk Rock Kittens, from Atomic TV’s Videoscramble episode.

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Atomic TV Gets Into Bum Fights

Atomic TV interviewed one of the notorious Bum Fights guys at the 2004 Home Entertainment Retail Expo (9-21-04) at the Baltimore Convention Center. Bum Fights liked Baltimore’s bums, seeing real star potential in Charm City’s street beat. Later, Tom and Scott tried out for the Bum Fights Fellini, but they weren’t classy enough.


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Atomic TV’s “East Coast Video Show 2000” Episode Intro

Atomic TV covered Atlantic City’s East Coast Video Show religiously until they got regular jobs and setteled down to a lives of quiet desperation. A look back at the days of hardcore yore…

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DEAD AIR Video Exhibition

DEAD AIR Video Exhibition (Feb 17 – Mar 22, 2009)
Metro Gallery, 1700 N. Charles Street
www.themetrogallery.net
www.mypspace.com/metrogallery

Exhibit Opening: THE END of Analog Party (Feb 17, 2009)
Metro Gallery, 1700 N Charles St
Doors 8pm, Show 9pm; $6, Light snacks, Cash bar
Bands: Lo Moda, Plans Plans, and Edie Sedgwick
VJs: Joe Reinsel, Chris LaMartina, and Guy Werner
Exhibiting Video Artists: Vin Grabill, Atomic TV, Phil Davis, Kristen Anchor, and Preston Poe

What a fitting event for an Atomic TV retrospective: a farewell party for the archaic medium of analog video featuring a long dormant TV show that’s been pretty much dead and decomposing for the past 4 years (Atomic TV, b. June 1997 – d. February 2005)! Atomic TV’s heyday was roughly 1997 to 2000. In the New Millenium, Scott Huffines and I only turned in a few sporadic “holiday” and “special” episodes (“The Thanksgiving Episode” “The Black History Month Episode” “Atomic TV Shorts,” “The Mark Harp Memorial Episode,” and the “2004 Election Political Episode”), a result of various factors including unemployment, new employment, spending too much time at the racetrack, and The Rape of the Tapes Incident (when some feckless and unapologetic city cable employees tossed out about 30 Atomic TV episodes that were stored in their offices). Plus, the rise of Internet video streaming technology, viral video sites like YouTube, and the whole conversion from analog to digital technology took its aesthetic and financial toll and made us kind of redundant(Atomic TV was mostly shot on S-VHS video and edited on “cuts-only” S-VHS VCRs). Whatever. Atomic TV got derailed and only through this event have we gotten back on track to put together a “gallery background video clips” reel. This event has given us the opportunity to go back and dig through the hundreds of hours of video muck we created and find the best slices of the mud pie we hurled at Baltimore’s late-night cable TV audience back in the day. It’s been fun and we hope you think so too.

–Tom Warner, Accelerated Decrepitude

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