The Big Bus (1976) - First appearance - 2001 a space oddyssey music

The Big Bus (1976) - First appearance - 2001 a space oddyssey music - El autobus atomico

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@ProfMobilux1 2 ай бұрын

I love this movie very much. I saw it many times in my childhood and especially when you are younger this bus is the geeatest thing ever. I love it.

@clipfilmix 2 ай бұрын

Indeed. I made a lego model and many drawings of it. That bus was more fascinating than Kitt!

@NobHillBorn 11 жыл бұрын

In the same year, 1976, the German firm Neoplan sent an articulated double-decker touring bus across the USA, outfitted as a rolling hotel with room for 12 passengers. this was done to show what was possible with buses (not quite the Big Bus, but close).

@BrettBaker 8 жыл бұрын

I love how the roof at the front barely clears the top of the door in the building, but when we see it parked outside near the end, the rear of the bus has a big observation bubble that would never cleared it and was actually missing when it was driven out.

@polbecca 7 жыл бұрын

If you look closely at the roofline of the rear half of the bus as it exits the hangar, there is a slight dip after the second window, and there is an air scoop after the sixth window. The air scoop is present and correct on the top when the observation bubble is in place. So perhaps that section was retractable after all. They sure had it pop up pretty smartly, then, as soon as the bus was in the open air as we cut to the wide shot.

@DomoniqueMusiclover 4 жыл бұрын

Hahah

@billyjoejimbob56 3 жыл бұрын

Must have been retractable. You don't think the props department would actually install it AFTER exiting the hangar... do you?!😜

@lincbond442 2 жыл бұрын

This was such a huge and expensive prop that I don't think there would have been two versions of the big bus. It must have been a retractable roof or it might have been a removable top somewhat like a big camper shell.

@migovas1483 2 жыл бұрын

The magic of Camera cuts...

@christopherbutcher1579 8 жыл бұрын

I saw this as a kid. loved how a tire blows out, it jettisons away only to be replaced without the bus even slowing down. So "70's" cool!

@NobHillBorn 11 жыл бұрын

Nice entrance! The actual vehicle (according to April 1976 Motor Trend) was two International Harvester semis inside this plastic facade. There were two drivers (but the rear one couldn't see out and was directed by the front driver. The glass cab out front is just for show and display the actors who appear to drive the bus.

@klishnor1 11 жыл бұрын

I loved its aerodynamics, which only worked once it got over a certain speed: "We're breaking wind at 90 miles per hour!"

@stevemoore8598 6 жыл бұрын

I remember my friend and I saw this movie in hollywood in 1976 boy those days were great i also saw the bus park off la brea Blvd.

@craigwest1250 9 жыл бұрын

Fantastic Movie!! The comedy is priceless due to its fine cast and plot! New York to Denver!

@thevoiceharmonic Ай бұрын

The distant shot at the beginning shows the official party, but one guy is lying down on a stretcher. He can't be moved because he has a St Christophers medal imbedded in his chest from an earlier sabotage explosion. Brilliant. The Big Bus has been my favourite spoof since I saw it in 1976 when I was 17y

@BruceWayneOfOz 3 жыл бұрын

Well, after all these...Decades...I have no idea which road to nowhere that Big Old Thing took, but I Was there at Paramount when it was being made, and remember seeing various sections of the Bus around the lot! It was Always needing Work! You can Imagine! Good times....Simpler times! I Miss them! ^^X^^

@Salisbury2015 5 жыл бұрын

I was a kid when I saw this movie on TV, and for some reason I thought I imagined seeing this. So glad to see it really existed. The movie was goofy as heck, even to me as a kid. But for some reason I thought the idea of this bus was cool.

@brandonshaw7619 4 жыл бұрын

Me too My cousin and I watched when we were 12 or 13

@maratonlegendelenemirei3352 2 жыл бұрын

Goofy? I thought it was some serious shit not to be mocked? I was only 10.

@versuskid66 11 жыл бұрын

I felt like 10 years old again after seeing this again. I saw this with a double feature of LOGANS RUN. Thanks for posting this & the nostalgia trip

@MarvelDcImage 8 жыл бұрын

What explains this movie? It was the 70s, folks - everyone was snorting coke.

@qetoun 8 жыл бұрын

+MarvelDcImage You can explain the 90s in that everyone was doing Speed.

@hypnotised-clover 4 жыл бұрын

And the 60s was lsd, and now it's marijuana.

@desinataliasopyanti1590 4 жыл бұрын

Herded NJ uxnf

@zbudda 4 жыл бұрын

2020 movies...everyone’s sun tanning their anuses, being cuckold and praising the dark lord

@sitdowndogbreath 3 жыл бұрын

@@zbudda and 2021, Max Headroom Biden and Harris constantly malfunctioning the vaccine and covid-19 leftovers of it anyway

@AngelBearOH 13 жыл бұрын

The crazy thing I remember from the movie is that they always drove the Cyclops on twisty, two-lane highways. There must have been four-lane interstate highways to drive on in those days.

@zeferinoresendiz1698 4 жыл бұрын

AngelBearOH probably

@dicasuteis955 4 жыл бұрын

Crazy!

@craigm2 14 жыл бұрын

love the way the sky deck at the back miraculously makes it out of a door four foot shorter than it...

@lincbond442 6 жыл бұрын

I have this on DVD and I can't explain why Harold Gould's line about the Coyote being painted on backwards is omitted from the home video release. I thought this bus was the coolest thing ever when I was 7, that is until Star Wars was released a year later.

@maratonlegendelenemirei3352 2 жыл бұрын

Star Wars was shit. The Big Bus was the real shit!

@Infernal_Elf 6 жыл бұрын

Fantastic stuff

@jasonsbrain2 13 жыл бұрын

I remember seeing this movie at the Theatre when I was a kid. I would have been 11 or 12. This was supposed to be a satire of all the "Disaster Movies" which were all the rage during the 1970's ("Airport", "Airport-75", "Earthquake", "The Posiedon Adventure", "The Towering Inferno"..) Now the movie characters could experience life-threatening danger on a "Big Bus." I remember enjoying it as a kid, but I remember very little about it. I assumed everyone was saved at the end...

@Neville60001 2 жыл бұрын

They were, but-well, you'll just have to rent it from KZfaq and see it (if you don't remember the ending) because I'm _not_ going to be a dick and spoil said ending.

@Null42x86 4 жыл бұрын

Cool!

@blackwunk 8 жыл бұрын

I remember this movie as 'comedy gold' and only as an adult of today can see the practical applications of having a vehicle like this. Eastern Europe, Canada and South America already have vehicles this big on roads (mostly lumber and petrol transportation) so I don't see it as unusual to have something like this for passenger use.

@slitor 8 жыл бұрын

+blackwunk I don't think its economically feasible.

@coldcoldrain13 8 жыл бұрын

the rocket engine made it more practical for cruising.

@curtekstrom6600 4 жыл бұрын

If I remember right, the bus was billed as a Nuclear Powered bus.

@aidenrosten9853 4 жыл бұрын

wow so cool

@DocWolph 13 жыл бұрын

"Thunderbirds are GO!"

@gwhpnut1 Жыл бұрын

Probably had a squat valve :) Truckers used to tell rookies that if you pull the air horn, it would activate the squat valve to lower the truck in case if a low bridge or other low objects... :)

@billyjoejimbob56 3 жыл бұрын

Remember it well. Utterly rediculous and totally hillarious!

@RadioKABGermany 12 жыл бұрын

Is that cool. The movie with the bus is fantastic. :) i have seen 1978 (with 15 Years) in the cinema in germany and in the '80 on the tv. It's a great machine and a wonderful bus. Thanks for the pics. Best wishes from germany. Henning

@noelio67 3 жыл бұрын

I remember the music .....bits if the bus.....a kid of 1978 in Galway Bay, Western Ireland

@flavioaurore 2 жыл бұрын

Aqui no Brasil passava na tv manchete esse filme.

@kushhatkar 4 жыл бұрын

The bus is straight outta hotwheels collection

@markali-gilkes8517 5 жыл бұрын

Incredible ! Wow! I went wild ! When I saw this as a kid at 12 ! Yes old! I thought to my self , love to have this! But in reality now? Fuel consumption! 2 man drivers! I guess It has a switch to operate for one driver two? if the second driver is tired ? If ur bored u can change? Drivers seat ! If u want it l.h.d. or to r.h.d. ha ha ha ! How cool ! Is that ! Maintance fees? Tyres ? The cost ? Insurance? Tax ? So many questions! Lol 😁

@DKH1103 14 жыл бұрын

"Raise the flags of all nations!"

@cesaralejandrobrisenomiche3558 4 жыл бұрын

Fantastico 😃🚍⛽🚦🚥🚧🛑😍😍😍 maravilloso yo lo recuerdo en mi infancia,👏👏😃😃😃😃

@NESTABROWN9 11 жыл бұрын

Bloody hell look like longer bendy coach! What a life!!!

@TheKurtsPlaceChannel 3 жыл бұрын

OMG I loved this movie. Thanks for posting this. Who says nuclear power can't be used on the road. LOL

@carstenbraatz 12 жыл бұрын

I would totally make this into a motorhome.

@Eric-zi1oz 8 жыл бұрын

I wonder if it still exists somewhere in a hollywood warehouse?

@bandvitromaniaios1307 4 жыл бұрын

SevelRomanov :(

@brandonvelde5774 4 жыл бұрын

@SevelRomanov It's a shame, they could've turned it into some kind of attraction.

@toddmcw 4 жыл бұрын

@SevelRomanov I remember in a Starlog magazine in the 70s, reading it was the biggest movie prop ever made.

@zeferinoresendiz1698 4 жыл бұрын

The Cyclopes should have been preserved not scraped

@ooEVILGOAToo 3 жыл бұрын

@SevelRomanov :(

@onlyarandomusername 4 жыл бұрын

Why am I seeing this again after all these years

@Wildstar40 8 жыл бұрын

Ahhhh the Cyclops.Everybodys favorite nuclear powered bus.

@thathippieguy67 Жыл бұрын

I saw this movie several times at the theater as a kid. I was nine years old, so my standards probably weren't very high, but the goofiness of it appealed to me at the time. Elements of the story influenced, (or were possibly ripped off by), the makers of Airplane. I would love to see it again, but it is very hard to find.

@SquaredEyeballs 9 жыл бұрын

For some inexplicable reason, the joke right after this moment was cut from the home video release, even though it was short and very funny. The music ends and Harold Gould yells -- Who put the coyote on backwards?!

@lincbond442 6 жыл бұрын

That's it! I knew I wasn't going crazy! I remember hearing that line when I saw the movie on TV back around 1980. I can't explain why it is not on the DVD.

@Neville60001 2 жыл бұрын

@@lincbond442, it needs to be on a Blu-ray disc.

@LostFleet 7 жыл бұрын

I am not a movie expert but it looks like it would be more dramatic to place the camera to the other side of the bus so the setting or rising sun would shine on the bus rather than the shadowy side,

@craigmclean8260 8 жыл бұрын

I remember when this movie was released; saw it in late Autumn, 1976. It was a double-bill w/ Mel Brooks' "Silent Movie" (we laughed a lot that evening...)

@datathunderstorm 4 жыл бұрын

How come I never, ever saw this on TV or in the movies? And I’m a certified Scifi nut...!!! Where did my life go wrong? 😳

@das81 12 жыл бұрын

I t was eons since I watched this flick!

@mfuji02 14 жыл бұрын

It's a crazy comedy love the 70's crazy times -_-

@phoenixman8569 5 жыл бұрын

according to Wikipedia the bus was scrapped after shooting the movie. such a shame, it would have been a great piece of movie memorabilia history.....

@RailRide 11 жыл бұрын

I did some digging on this less than a year ago. Unfortunately this prop (which was built without any blueprints) was not preserved.

@RDorthyWayneright 11 жыл бұрын

I saw this on TV, I had no idea this was an actual movie.

@KlunkerRider 14 жыл бұрын

Still looking for this one on DVD!

@Neville60001 2 жыл бұрын

It's on DVD, but in an (IMHO) inferior version from Warner Archive (I wish that this was on DVD and Blu-Ray from Olive Films instead, or on Blu-Ray from Paramount as part of the Paramount Presents collection.)

@maresia747 13 жыл бұрын

kkkkkkkkkkkkk, eu lembro de mais desse filme, saudades!!!!!

@SteveCarras 5 жыл бұрын

Same studio and same team that did the similiar, and boxoffice champ AIRPLANE! (1980), hich isaw then..my first expierence at multiple times seeing, and thereby, memorizaing a movie.

@daveedwards6653 4 жыл бұрын

Gezz, I remember this show.. It was as Awesome as it was ridiculous.

@RDorthyWayneright 11 жыл бұрын

Hahaha I just noticed that! The top part in the back isn't even on when they are rolling it out.

@corrioliseffect 3 жыл бұрын

Oh, you mean the canopy over the pool! I never noticed that it was missing here!

@derrickaskew2184 4 жыл бұрын

WOW

@davidsiler5505 7 жыл бұрын

HOLY BUS BATMAN!!!!!

@ddeanb784 6 жыл бұрын

20 years ago or more ago...now i found it.

@1oldskoolluvr 11 жыл бұрын

the same way they got it out of that hanger....magic! anybody else notice that the roof barely clears the doorway when it first rolls out, but if you look @ it once it's parked outside, the rear section is clearly higher than what the hanger door is. don't get me wrong, this movie was great (for what it was), but the things you miss when not looking @ the whole picture.......

@forgetdogs 10 жыл бұрын

We broke the wind at 90!

@keouine 10 ай бұрын

The music is the opening to "Also Sprach Zarathustra" by Richard Strauss (died 1945) You know him as the composer of Ariadne auf Naxos or Der Rosenkavalier.

@chowpeter9961 3 жыл бұрын

您好，哇這一台巴士🚌好大呀，还是双節的双层大巴车！

@jeremiahclark3084 4 жыл бұрын

This is a cult classic

@THOMASTHESAILOR 8 жыл бұрын

I've seen everything now..

@juanca4774 11 жыл бұрын

that's very big!

@hypnotised-clover 4 жыл бұрын

It's such a shame that they scrapped it because of it's size, there is nothing like it today.

@InCAdocumentaries 3 жыл бұрын

I have read that it was destroyed after the making of the movie. But a real-life Neoplan double-artic double-decker still exists for real, but not in running condition

@lazyflyingtiger 13 жыл бұрын

I love that they have an NYPD incident reaction team ready to go there, just waiting for alll the inevitable casualties.

@lazyflyingtiger 13 жыл бұрын

I stumbled on this video because I wanted to see exactly how uncomfortable my impending Megabus trip was going to be. I really hope Megabus is like this. It is isn't it?

@Neville60001 2 жыл бұрын

It's not, but at least it won't be a disaster like what's shown in this movie.)

@rholster2 11 жыл бұрын

all of the fanfare and hype as it is towed out of the "hanger" and only about five people to see its unveiling....did anyone happen to notice that the coyote was backwards? lol....

@Jesus.87 4 жыл бұрын

wow

@railfanprk 4 жыл бұрын

Enjoy this video 😍😍😍

@sebastianthomsen2225 Жыл бұрын

looks like something TOP GEAR would build if they had the budget to it ! 🤪

@HEADBANGERSBALLER 2 жыл бұрын

Roadrunner sees bus... " scoffs, ... oh please..."

@ACNC1 12 жыл бұрын

I thought I dreamt this movie

@yourlocalcemetery 4 жыл бұрын

That's a big ass bus

@MultiRob77 13 жыл бұрын

@bruhe The Mammoth Car is 10 time longer. The Big Bus always reminds me something that the Power Rangers would drive.

@sweetkellymay 5 жыл бұрын

The dome on the rear of the bus, was missing...

@kroon275 11 жыл бұрын

if they wanted this bus to appear impressive why did they have it towed out of a hangar by a 3 year old on his pedal powered tractor??

@ProfessorChocolateCake 5 жыл бұрын

So this is where Jeremy Clarkson got the idea for his limo in Top Gear?

@lincbond442 2 жыл бұрын

It's ridiculous how the ground crews behave in such a formal military fashion for this momentous occasion yet there are only a few people there to witness said occasion. 5 ground crew members, 1 security guard, 2 drivers, and 5 spectators. You would think there'd be at least several hundred people in attendance such the engineers, scientists, technicians, fabricators, the media, and the public at large. I guess so much money was spent on the huge prop that there was none left for some extras.

@gideonwaxfarb 11 жыл бұрын

That's a big bus :P

@UNOwen1 9 жыл бұрын

@cliofilmtv; the name of the music is 'Also Sprach Zarathustra,' by Richard Strauss - NOT 'the 2001 movie music.' It really, REALLY helps people to STAY in SCHOOl - graduate frm HIGH SCHOOL , then go to UNIVERSITY (and NOT to party. People who do that end up not knowing simple things - like the title of this piece).

@vilavidi878 9 жыл бұрын

Yes, I understand that 2001 used no original music ant was borrowed from classical authors, like Strauss, but since this is a parody movie and it was using this music as a reference to 2001, I linked it to the movie that it originally parodied, as in this scene; it's an over the top technological advancement in transportation, so the reference was the sci-fi movie 2001 released eight years before. Now if anyone knows about 2001, then he can find that the sources of the music, but I thought referencing 2001 was more appropriate than referencing Strauss in this particular case. (sorry for my bad English anyhow).

@buddymack9606 6 жыл бұрын

Simple things like knowing when to use the letter "o", mister '"frm"?

@arielbernal6786 Жыл бұрын

Pedazo de turbina que tiene chaval

@43Hstocky 10 жыл бұрын

after watching that the tall bit on the back wasn't there when it got pulled out of the hanger

@patchesdf 14 жыл бұрын

Apparently this vehicle was designed to send hundreds of people, hurtling to their deaths at 400 mph on a public road in a crash that would result in a 5 kiloton atomic explosion. FUCK YEAH. Now there's an ending that would top Silver Streak.

@talalzakry Жыл бұрын

The bus idea and design are marvelous, but The movies is selliest supposed to be a comedy movies ever, it's not only you can`t laugh at it, but it even makes you wanna cry from The beggening till The end

@Gabriel11Genuino 11 жыл бұрын

COOL NOW you can turn the whole thing in different directions using the two steering wheels

@LEYENDASDELCAMINO 11 жыл бұрын

He aqui un pequeño bus!

@jimmyduncan7650 4 жыл бұрын

Here, hold my beer...... Pick a drive-thru any drive-thru, it'll fit!

@JBofBrisbane 14 жыл бұрын

You mean, "Also Spracht Zarathustra" by Richard Strauss. Thanks for posting, though.

@stewartcampbell7794 4 жыл бұрын

Best Stupid Movie Ever Made ! Total Fan .YYZ , Mohawk-Planker . 10 Star's + !

@NikolaosLedZeppelin 10 жыл бұрын

the rear section atrium is foldable.

@tonihott2 13 жыл бұрын

@AcropolisDiscoMovil Es para una comedia de 1976, se anticipó a Aterriza como puedas por cuatro años, realmente divertida, absurda y loca.

@aryaardana3745 4 жыл бұрын

"THE REAL JETBUS"

@AlterArthur 4 жыл бұрын

Nyasar kita woy

@aryaardana3745 4 жыл бұрын

@@AlterArthur hahahah

@Modenut 13 жыл бұрын

You eat one lousy foot and they call you a cannibal.

@KlunkerRider 9 жыл бұрын

"Look out, he's got a broken milk carton!" Anyone ever notice that when it emerges from the hanger it doesn't have the skylight third level yet it miraculously appears in the full shot? If I ever win the Powerball I would rebuild the Big Bus as my personal RV :-D

@CrazyBear65 9 жыл бұрын

You're right. Nice catch. "Raise flags of all nations..."

@jerryjenkins4755 9 жыл бұрын

It wouldn't clear the hanger door if it had the skylight. I'd never fly if greyhound had buses like this.