Very weird, very scary sci-film that someone submitted

I think I remember this. It started out with an animated bit with a couple of spaceships, one shooting at the other...?

And towards the end, a couple of kids were running away from whatever, and one shouted to the other, "Jump!", and they both jumped, only to be frozen in place by some ray (scratched onto the negative, as you pointed out).

I would have been 7 or 8 at the time. I don't remember being afraid--I actually thought it was extremely cool. Made me want to make my own movie.

This was called The Cosmic Crystal. I've been wondering about it myself for years. Was there more to the story or was that it? Anyone out there know?

I remember that I found it very cool and inventive that they made the ray gun effects by scratching the negative. I'm afraid that's all I remember. Was there also some stop-motion involved?

I'm sorting out alot about the years these kids were on and realize I was now in error about who was on before or after who (and I was probably watching many of these after they had all left the show), but I do remember the video submission you are referring to.

The approach was it was a scary movie, but upon viewing a clip, one of the kids, Accadio (sp), said it looked more like an adventure than it did scary.

Now Accadio would be what I considered a later kid (after the ten group kids), but I suspect that could still make him a '75 kid.

He would have been on there with Lavelle (black kid in glasses with an afro) and Karen and I think Ron, possibly the overly favorite Chris, who did Zoom Views and Whether.