# 1986 VHS • The Cosmic Eye 60 FPS

The Cosmic Eye is a 1986 independent animated science fiction film produced and directed by Faith Hubley, with an original score by Benny Carter, Elizabeth Swados, Conrad Cummings, William Russo, and Dizzy Gillespie. The film features the voices of Dizzy Gillespie as Father Time and one of the three space musicians, Maureen Stapleton as Mother Earth, Jack Warden as Rocko, and Linda Atkinson and Sam Hubley as the other two musicians. It was released on VHS by Walt Disney Home Video in 1985, reissued by Buena Vista Home Video in 1990, and again by Lightyear Video in 1993. The theatrical premiere was June 6, 1986 in New York City. The film's frame narrative follows three homeward-bound alien musicians on their spacecraft The Cosmic Eye who stop to observe Earth, watching a series of animated vignettes about the planet's geological and human history before broadcasting two messages to humanity: hello and peace. The vignettes draw together older Hubley Studio short films, fragments from abandoned projects, and newly produced material, covering Earth's formation, the emergence of life, the rise of human civilization, environmental destruction, and war. The animation style borrows from modern fine art traditions including Paul Klee, Marc Chagall, and Wassily Kandinsky. The transcript opens with extended You noise tokens for the first five minutes before the score begins with the song The Evening Breeze, indicating a very quiet or music-only opening.

- Kind: Film
- Year: 1986
- By: The Vista Group®
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/TheVistaGroup-TheCosmicEye1980s)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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