Oriental Nightfish
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Oriental Nightfish is a 1978 animated film directed by Ian Emes
which accompanies the Linda McCartney
track Oriental Nightfish. The film has a running time of 4m 30s and features animation by Ian Emes with the track Oriental Nightfish performed Wings
, the band Linda and her husband Paul McCartney
were members of.
In 2010, Emes commented:
following Linda McCartney's death earlier that year.
The video for Oriental Nightfish was made available on the VHS release of Rupert and the Frog Song
. However, the DVD Tales of Wonder: Music and Animation Classics (2004) (also released as Paul McCartney - Music & Animation Collection) does not contain it.
Ian Emes
Ian Ronald Emes is a British animator and film director, from Handsworth, Birmingham, England, known for his work with Pink Floyd, who have used his animated films as back-projections in concert and released them as extras on their DVDs...
which accompanies the Linda McCartney
Linda McCartney
Linda Louise McCartney, Lady McCartney was an American photographer, musician and animal rights activist. Her father and mother were Lee Eastman and Louise Sara Lindner Eastman....
track Oriental Nightfish. The film has a running time of 4m 30s and features animation by Ian Emes with the track Oriental Nightfish performed Wings
Wings (band)
Wings were a British-American rock group formed in 1971 by Paul McCartney, Denny Laine and Linda McCartney that remained active until 1981....
, the band Linda and her husband Paul McCartney
Paul McCartney
Sir James Paul McCartney, MBE, Hon RAM, FRCM is an English musician, singer-songwriter and composer. Formerly of The Beatles and Wings , McCartney is listed in Guinness World Records as the "most successful musician and composer in popular music history", with 60 gold discs and sales of 100...
were members of.
In 2010, Emes commented:
I got pissed on whisky and put the music on as loud as it would go, and lay on my back in the living room and let it wash over me. The whisky did indeed help, and I came up with this weird idea where alien forces enter this building where someone who looks like Linda McCartney is playing a Gothic Expressionistic Wurlitzer. This blonde female is penetrated, got naked and inhabited by the alien force, then she’s replicated, before becoming a comet that explodes. The film was a bit weird and scary and a little bit sexual. Yet it was later put on Paul McCartney's Rupert The Bear video for children. The kids who watched it years ago are now in their 20s, and they’ve set up an internet site called The Oriental Nightfish Haunted My Childhood. I guess it freaked them out and opened their imagination].
Availability
The track Oriental Nightfish was released in 1998 on the compilation album Wide PrairieWide Prairie
Wide Prairie is a posthumous compilation by Linda McCartney. The album was compiled and released in 1998 by Paul McCartney after his wife's death, after a fan wrote in enquiring about "Seaside Woman"; a reggae beat type song which Wings had recorded in 1977, under the name Suzy and the Red...
following Linda McCartney's death earlier that year.
The video for Oriental Nightfish was made available on the VHS release of Rupert and the Frog Song
Rupert and the Frog Song
Rupert and the Frog Song is a 1984 animated film written and produced by Paul McCartney and directed by Geoff Dunbar and Raymond 'George' Taylor. The making of Rupert and the Frog Song began in 1981 and ended in 1983. The film was released theatrically as an accompaniment to McCartney's feature...
. However, the DVD Tales of Wonder: Music and Animation Classics (2004) (also released as Paul McCartney - Music & Animation Collection) does not contain it.