See the psychotronic insanity of DEVO's first music video

David Pescovitz 10:54 am Fri Mar 11, 2016

In The Beginning Was The End: The Truth About De-Evolution - Devo

In The Beginning Was The End: The Truth About De-Evolution - Devo Watch this video on YouTube. Enjoy the psychotronic grandeur of the first DEVO short film, "In The Beginning…

Enjoy the psychotronic grandeur of the first DEVO short film, "In The Beginning Was The End: The Truth About De-Evolution," from 1976. Directed by Chuck Statler, the video took the first prize at the 1977 Ann Arbor Film Festival. Two key bits of background, via Wikipedia:

• Devo has claimed, occasionally, that the film contains subliminal messages, which allowed it to win at Ann Arbor.

• The ping-pong paddles shown in the Secret Agent Man segment have images of Richard Nixon and Chairman Mao Zedong on them.

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