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Elephant Parts was released on VHS (stereo) and Betamax (mono) in 1981. [5] It was ninth on Billboard's Top Videocassette Sales for 1981. [6]It was later released on LaserDisc and CED and was the third best-selling video laser disk in 1982, behind Star Wars and Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
Television Parts included many other artists who were unknown at the time, but went on to become major stars in their own right: Jay Leno, Jerry Seinfeld, Garry Shandling, Whoopi Goldberg, [8] and Arsenio Hall. The concept of the show was to have comics render their stand-up routines into short comedy films much like the ones in Elephant Parts.
Michael Nesmith in Television Parts is a television series aired by NBC in 1985. It was a 30-minute comedy-variety series created by Michael Nesmith as a continuation of his Grammy Award-winning video production Elephant Parts, and earlier series PopClips. The first episode was a stand-alone television special which aired on March 7, 1985. The ...
Elephant Parts was an early home video available to consumers and would win the first Grammy Award for a music video. Koyaanisqatsi (1983) was among the titles they distributed. In 1992, Pacific Arts began releasing promotional material on the then-upcoming video, Michael Nesmith Live at the Britt Festival .
A promotional video was made for Cruisin' and was released on Nesmith's Elephant Parts. Contrary to popular belief, the video did not debut Hulk Hogan, but rather, featured wrestler Steve Strong who resembles a young Hulk Hogan. Nesmith mistakenly stated in 1989 that Hogan played the role, but he corrected his statement in 2003. [1]
The National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences began to honor quality music videos with the Grammy Award for Video of the Year category in 1982.The first two award recipients were former member of The Monkees Michael Nesmith for the hour-long video Elephant Parts (also known as Michael Nesmith in Elephant Parts) and Olivia Newton-John for Olivia Physical.
In 1981, he released Elephant Parts, the first winner of a Grammy for music video, directed by William Dear. Billboard credits [42] the independently produced Video Concert Hall as being the first with nationwide video music programming on American television. [43] [44] [45]
A two-disc DVD release in 2003 features a documentary on production and a director's cut, [32] which adds deleted scenes into the film, making it 116 minutes. The first is The Adventures of Martin Luther, [33] inserted after the scene with the Protestant couple talking about condoms. The second is a promotional video about the British army ...