Can anyone help me find this?


I have strong Memories of having rented a VHS-Video of Rupert and the Frog Song when I was very young. It's easy enough to find that on DVD now, but here's the strange thing - that video had two other animations on it.

The second I remember as being set on a tropical island, with Negroid women depicted in a way which is probably illegal now. That I just thought was kind of weird and not nearly as fun as the Rupert film. Was this "Tropical Island Hum"?

But it's the third and final animated short which I'm particularly interested in. All I remember of this was that the music was a kind of power-ballad with female vocals, and the whole experience was extremely nightmarish and haunting. So much so that I can't say weather it really existed or if it was all just a nightmare I had. It may have been about a woman in a flooding house, but again I'm just guesstimating here.

Is there anyone here old enough to have seen that video and remembered it more clearly than me?

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Ok, I should have done a bit more research myself - the other songs are "Seaside Woman" and "The Oriental Nightfish" (such a wonderful, mysterious title!). It's even on YouTube, and there are plenty of other people there who were freaked out and given nightmares by it being tagged on to the end of the Frog Song VHS.

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Thanks for sharing those animation names. My parents leased the VHS for this too (suppose it could have been a different one). The video wouldn't play beyond Rupert and the Frog Song so went back mostly unwatched. Not long after it went back I worked out how to fix videos that stopped playing early. Always wondered what came after. Guess I can rest easy after nearly 30 years of wondering. Thanks Jordan.

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I found it for download using the eMule software. It was nice seeing it again after all these years.

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Shane Jensen
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Is there any possibility you could send it my way? Thanks!

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Just do a Google search for eMule.

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Shane Jensen
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I'm gutted. I sold it a few months ago at a car boot sale and instantly regretted it. It was a fantastic piece of work and the accompanying Wings videos were excellent.

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I completely forgot about the oriental night fish!!! And seaside woman for that matter. Can't believe my parents used to let me watch such weirdness when i was so little, sure explains a lot tho!! lol Just watched them all on youtube, they're amazing fair play! I know we've still got the old VHS of it in the attic somewhere i'm gonna have to dig it out and subject some children to it like my parents did!!! ha ha ha

lush

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I've been watching it almost every year!

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