Veggietales 1977

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==Information==
Hello. Due to the sake of privacy, I will not be sharing my email address or name. The following content might be disturbing. It is a account of a true story and may be graphic. 
==Antanomy==
Some time between 2004 and 2005 I was working for a local collector's "geek" shop downtown. One day I was driving to work when I noticed that my fuel gauge was nearly empty, so I pulled off the interstate and wheeled into a Exxon station. While I was pumping my car full of gas, I saw my friend from work there. I chatted with him and he asked me if I had ever owned a Veggietales tape. I said yes and he then talked to me about this old film reel he had found in his attic. He said it was a Veggietales video from 1977. I of course did not believe him but I nevertheless took the reel from him. After work I got out my dad's old film projector from the 1940s and got out the reel. They didn't even have VHS in the 70s so it was a film reel. I put it in and flicked the projector on. The screen was black for a few minutes until the classic old timetimey ,3 BEEP countdown thing played and then the words popped into the screen: IBM COMPUTER GENERATED IMAGERY PROTOTYPE TEST REEL CREATED BY PHILL VISCHER AND THE UNIVERSITY OF UTAH ©1976, 1977 IBM COMPUTERS INCORPORATED. The screen went to black again until it turned white suddenly. The words: "VEGIETALES" PILOT REEL appeared in bold text and in a helplessly tinny and scratchy voice, you could hear Bob the tomato saying "Ok larry , time for the theme song." Then without his jumping animation a disturbing Larry CGI sprite appeared in the screen instantly. There was no shading, almost no lighting or shadows, and they looked like the bare green and black computer production skeletons with color added. Larry was not holding a tuba, but the tuba opening riff played and Bob moved into the center of the screen without his hopping anamation. He sang in the same voice " If you like to talk to tomatoes, If a squash can make you smile" But did not say the line about waltzing with potatoes and instead repeated the first two. Then, without saying " Do we have a show for you" the Veggietales, Veggietales singing started but there were no clips from the show, just Bob and Larry standing there. After saying the first verse of Veggietales it cut to the countertop scene. There were no jars or decorations on the countertop, just a bare wall and surface with no detail. Bob said " Welcome to veggietales", but without his usual pep. They stood there motionless for a few seconds before Bob said, with no mouth animation " We have a letter from Lucy Anderson from Charolotte, North Carolina. " Without any movement of any kind he read the letter, which was not in his hand or anywhere in the screen. The letter read: " Dear Phill Vischer, I am afraid of the dark. " Bob said " Well, Lucy, Here is a short movie about fear. The screen cut to black for a few minutes then it showed junior asparagus standing in a white void like the one at the opening of the theme song. He said without mouth movement, "Mommy, I am scared. His voice was not that of a child, but a high pitched, metalic, robotic computer voice. In the same voice as her son, Junior's mom, who was not present in the screen said " I know junior. Satan is in you. " Then, the screen cut to black for about a minute. The projector began running faster and shaking louder. It cut to junior standing in a room with black walls, while sailing and screeching in a ghastly voice " I WANT MY MOMMY! " A loud, booming, satanic voice replied "YOUR LIFE HAS NO MEANING, JUNIOR." Junior's sailing started to become more robotic until it was nothing but computer warbling. The animation lost color and everything was the bare production skeletons. Then, the screen cut to black and a pair of bloody, red eyes burst in to the screen while a high pitched buzzing noise was piercing the spakers. The projector started smoking. Three genre numbers appeared on the screen: 666. Then the noise stopped and a robotic screaming noise ensued while the tape was visibly melting onscreen. The projector caught on fire and looked like a dragon as it started spewing out burning tape. The noise faded and I extinguished the projector with a hose. The tape was incenirated. I stood in shock for a few minutes before running to my room and destroying all of my Veggietales tapes and merchandise. I then emailed Big Idea and asked them if Phill Vischer had produced a tape in 1977. They said he had experimented with it and might had created a very early Veggietales prototype. I asked them if they could identify how many reels had been made. They said only 2 were made but they were probably distributed via garage sales in accident and might have been copied and sold to collectors. I looked some stuff up but I could not find any footage on Youtube. I did find a video titled Veggietales prototype on VidLii and watched it. It consisted of Bob and Larry singing the same theme song as the reel contained, but that was it. I have up the search and moved on with my life, forever haunted. 
==Afttermath==
I had severe anxiety and depression after the incident and made many attempts at suicide. I am currently living in a mental hospital home and slowly recovering. A few people online found a video by using way back machine made by a guy who had found a similar tape made in 1980 that was extremely short but had the same IBM University of Utah credintials. The guy said the tape was a VHS, unlike the 1977 one and consisted of Bob and Larry reading bible verses. He said it was destroyed accident and no images were taken. I could not salvage any footage either of my tape. 
I have one thing to say. 
If you ever find a Veggietales Film Reel, DO NOT WATCH IT. It will ruin your life forever.
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