I’m a retired elementary school teacher and still have the tape of this. And no way to play it. I can’t explain how excited I am to be able to watch it here and share with my grandchildren!
I'm glad you are able to share this with your grandchildren! I'm curious, do you know why so many schools in the 80s had the children watch this movie?
@@pepperj I grew up with this movie, was 2 when it came out, but they were still showing it in the late 80s when I was in 3rd grade. I substitute taught during the mid to late 2000s, by then it was mostly animated Disney flicks and Pixar movies, VHS had been phased out. I don’t know if this is the right answer, but my guess would be that the 80s was still trying to hold onto that old fashioned, wholesome brand of family values that typified the 1950s. Even though we were a cynical generation, Gen X still had a link to the old boomer ideal of that bygone era, largely because of movies like this one. I feel sorry for Millennials and Gen Z, because culturally speaking, they’ve been handed a raw deal.
Why did all these teachers in the early 90s feel the need to expose our impressionable brains to this trippy ass, subtly disturbing, and really pretty dark movie?? I'm glad though, it's stuck with me all this time and I think partially shaped the adult I am... I also remember being shown the Labyrinth and inordinate number of times :)) That's more understandable though...
I started sobbing when she first sang Timothy to sleep, and continued to sob all the way through. I saw this as a 15 yr old with my two younger brothers. All three of us cried at the time. We had lived an extremely difficult childhood. This movie was and still is balm for our souls. Thank you so very much for posting this.
I was obsessed with this movie in 1982, I was 11, I watched it countless times. That's 38 yes ago.I couldn't wait to be a grandma! Today, I am happy to say, I loooooove being a grandma to an 6 and 9 year old grandchildren. I have been looking for this movie FOREVER!!! It's 2020. .I always wondered why she didn't help the great grandchildren and great grandchildren???
I watched this in the 80s never forgot about it!! No one I know has ever heard of it!!! So thankful to see it again now I’m a grandmother!! Thank you! Thank you!!!
Wow, I saw this over thirty years ago. Instantly I was transported back to my childhood when my own grandparents were alive in the world and part of my life. Bought tears to my eyes....in a good way. Thank you for sharing this.
I saw it in grade 1- it was traumatizing.. the sound from being played on an antique film projector definitely enhanced the creep factor. Endeared by the film nowadays, but that talking heart is still creepy AF, goosebumps💯😨
I saw this in the 80s when I was about twelve. It had something special then - I remember talking about it at school a few days later. I seem to remember most of it really well, but it's quite sad now - I'm not sure why. I think it's because it reminds me of an easier time, when everything was right with the world. Thank you for sharing this.
The scene where grandmother sings to Agatha has been on my mind lately. Her voice just randomly popped into my head one afternoon when I was at work. I remember watching the movie when I was little little boy...decades later I find this on RUclips. Thanks for posting the movie!
loved this movie as a child, as a teenager and still do now at 52, able to watch this again just allows me to be the young girl, and appreciate the grandmothers love so much more now that I am a grandmother of 12. my children now grown have watched this and I can enjoy it with my older grandkids as of now.
Ive been looking for this forever! No one I know remembers this. Maybe because it was a t.v. movie. Im 47... I was little but i always reminded this movie.
Shit, now I'm crying because I miss having grandparents, I'm 40 and unmarried without kids, and even though I'm not completely alone, it just feels like it now.
To anyone who reads this tell our younger generations to become parents. Either have children or adopt them. We never realize while we’re young that we’ll miss the presence of others when we’re old.
I think I only saw this movie a couple times as a child but it randomly popped into my head tonight. All I could remember was how it had made this emotional impact on me as a child. A bittersweet rewatching. I read some of the comments and have a feeling most of us suffered some loss in childhoods. I'm not sure what the takeaway is supposed to be from the movie or why I was ever allowed to watch it unsupervised as a child but it definitely resonated.
There's something about this movie that brings back vivid memories for our generation. For me though, this movie was played pretty much every year in our gradeschool class. Not sure why.
*This movie was special too me as a child...and this is my first time watching it as an adult and it is JUST AS SPECIAL and heartwarming **today.It** was both a bittersweet emotional journey watching it...realizing how much has changed,personally and globally**Funny how this movie had futuristic overtones of what technology would be today...robots living amongst us now*
THANK YOU for uploading and sharing this. This was a movie from my childhood that I've been searching for recently. I'm glad someone helped preserve it.
Same here! Every few years, I have searched for it, and I have finally found it. It did not disappoint, and she is just as sweet as I always remembered her. I think this movie helped get me through the loss of my dad as a little girl.
It doesn’t matter how many times I watch this. When old Agatha realizes her grandmother is back and has that expression of joy on her face, it gets me every time
First saw this as a young man...and now, 35 years later...I watched again as a NOT so young man....Heartfelt and Melancoly for the youngster I used to be.
Oh my God. This short film brings back memories. All I could remember was a robot grandma that poured milk from her finger. I watched this when I was prety young in the 90's in school one day. I have tried to remember the name of this movie thousands of times over the years and finally today decided to Google all I could remember robot pouring milk from finger. I'm so thankful this popped up. Thank you so much for uploading this to RUclips. I can't tell you how grateful I am to have found this short film.
You're welcome! Yeah there's something about this movie that sticks out with a lot of people. This was a movie they showed my class every year in grade school for some reason. Did you ever see Return to Oz? That one is a memory burn for me too!
This was a truly amazing movie. I do remember watching it when the movie first came out in 1982. The year I graduated from High School. I have seen it one other time I believe. I have never ever forgotten this movie. It brings me tears of joy. Over the years I have lost so so many loved ones. It has been very difficult. Somehow this movie has been of comfort to me. Knowing their Electric Grandmother is still out there. Unchanged . Still so lovingly humming and ticking away. As perfect as she always was. ❤ Thank you !!
In case you don't know it - Ray Bradbury wrote this story, first as a film script in 1962 and later as a short story in 1969 called 'I Sing The Body Electric' (a title borrowed from American poet Walt Whitman).
Some scenes from this always stuck in my mind but I couldn't remember the name. I was 6 when I watched it and for years thought I must have dreamed it. Guess I'll watch it again.
I just rewatched Cocoon a few weeks ago and remembered The actress Maureen Stapleton was in this made for TV movie I loved as a child but couldn’t for the life remember anything other than the sad ending and pouring the milk from her finger. Looking up all the movies Maureen has been in, I found this long lost gem I think all kids in the 80’s watched in school. This movie brings back so many memories and if it doesn’t bring tears to your eyes, are you even human.
I've never heard of this movie until I saw it posted on Facebook this week. Coincidentally, I checked out I SING THE BODY ELECTRIC (the twilight zone episode also)from the library around the same time I saw the post! I'm pretty sure they are very similar...same author
Young, beginning elementary when I first saw this. My sister and I decided to reenact the car scene, we were in an apartment parking lot, dead end. I pushed her, "fell" down behind a car. Well at some point the owners came out and got in the car and started backing up. Thankfully I rolled with the car and only had minor injuries. My sister threw a newspaper at their car to get them to stop. Probably why I never forgot this movie. So happy to see it again.
Believe it or not im only 18 and I actually used to watch this movie all the time when i was little😂it used to fascinate me, make me cry, and even freak me out a little. Watching this again for the first time in over a decade (probably since i was 6) blew my mind and made me feel small again🥰
Thanks for sharing. My daughter is 6. She’s known about this movie for a few years now (all my doing). Her favorite part is the power down dance the grandma does. That makes me think…when my kid is 16 will she think about this movie? Did your parents introduce you to this movie?
I just watched it now and was in tears the entire time. I don't think I saw it before, but I read the Bradbury short story as a kid. His work always affected me, so finding this film on RUclips really made my night. Thank you so much.
What a beautiful movie. I'm 42 , and my mother showed me this when I was a child , and ill always associate this movie with my great childhood. Thank you for posting this
I have been telling my kids about this movie for ages. I’ve had the Agatha song in my head for 40 years. I have always loved this movie. It’s one of the reasons I decided I wanted long hair when I was a Granny. To the people saying this is a creepy movie, you didn’t grow up when we did. This movie means a great deal to us . This was made when things were much more simple and laid back. There were Dads that still dressed like that, I had that coat that Aggie wore. I wore my hair like Aggie . Had the same night gown style. Back off and let us be happy.
Things certainly didn't feel that simple... As kids we were brought up to accept loss and tragedy. So much of what was taught to and aimed at us during that time was about losing one or both parents, being abandoned, becoming orphans, having to live on the streets, adults deliberately exploiting and tricking us.... On top of all that we were constantly being told that we were about to kidnapped and murdered!! I think a lot of us grew up fairly afraid and distrustful there for a while.
"Husbands,wives,families....we three outlived them all." I suppose if I outlived my wife and children,id resort to being a child wanting my grandmother with me. That's insanely tragic.
I remember this movie, as it actually reminded & still reminds me of grandmother who passed away 14 years ago; for this film always brought back the happiness of my life. Something sorely missing these days..😢😢😢
i will never forget this movie. it had a huge impact on me and i agree, even though robots and AI is creepy, this movie brought a tear to my eye tonight, in a good way
What a wonderful movie, I remember seeing it years ago I was 13yo and remembered to be very touch by it, my maternal grandmother whom I considered my second mother, died when I was 12yo. Thank you .
Same here. Not quite 40 years but damn near. I’ve thought of it occasionally over the years. Always remembered so vividly the King of the Hill scene at the end when Agatha ran up. We were watching it in my second or third grade classroom. I was so focused on watching the tv screen while walking to my desk I tripped over the power cord and broke the plug. For obvious reasons that memory kind of stuck with me. 😁
Grandma's song always moved me to tears. As someone who watched this as part of a special assembly in elementary school on an actual film projector, it always stayed with me. Now as a late 40-something, it still fills me with warmth, joy, and sadness.
7:24 - the part of this movie that's stuck with me for 30+ years, the boy clicking the pieces of the heart together & that musical tone of the voices, it takes me back XD I didn't realize the oldest brother was Eliot's brother from ET!
Yeah it's such a fun coincidence that he starred in 2 family-friendly sci-fi shows where he played the eldest of 3 children with a cute younger bro & extremely cute younger sis 😊
For whatever reasons, this movie stuck with me when I was a kid. Every few years, I remembered this movie for one reason or another. It was very emotional and now decades later, I plan to sit down with my 8yo and hopefully she will find it as heartwarming as I did.
Revisiting during covid19 October 2020. It's good to shed tears in private over cheesy touching stories. I just got done watching E.T. and weeping. Especially over " E.T. phone home". And now this after looking up Robert MacNaughton (older brother Michael).
Love this movie. Thank you for posting. Remember watching it with my boys so many years ago. Left a lasting impression. And sometimes one needs to go back and remember.
Thank you SO very much for sharing this. I was born in 1981, but watched this movie religiously at my grandparents house, like on repeat. My grandma has been gone for many years now and this brought back so many memories. I truly appreciate you sharing this. I feel like most people I know have never even heard of this movie, but it will always be a gem. Thank you! ❤ PS I FaceTimed with my grandpa and just played the intro and he immediately knew what it was!
that’s a great story, thanks for sharing! Im glad you found it and it brought back some good memories. i was also born in 81. this movie was played all the time at my elementary school for some reason. It’s been a memory burn for me and a few people that went to the same school. Facetime with your gramps to play the intro is awesome!
I have been humming a tune to my youngest grandson and couldn’t place where it was from. It always puts him straight to sleep as it did 5 minutes ago. Now I remember where it came from
Thank you for uploading this. Just vague images and memories of this film has made it difficult to describe to people... but then you just bring up the juice bar from her fingers! I’m a lonely dude in my 40s, and the last time I saw this was when I was about 3, and I was at my grandmother’s house. Needless to say, I was hit with a wave of emotions I haven’t felt for 3 decades! Thanks again for taking the time to post this!
I just read about this on all movie guide, and already my heart has sunk down to my stomach and I'm at the awkward area between breaking down sobbing or just staying quiet and showing somber reverence.
Saw it as a child never cried watching it then now that im all grown up and loved ones have moved on and I know the pain of loseing someone will let's jus say can somebody pass the tissues #missyougrandma
Julian Wallace I hear ya... plus throw in the factor that this movie brings up a time when we were children watching this in school or at home, I don’t know about you but for me a million childhood memories come up when I watch this (or hear the music). Sorry for your losses!
That song @ the end wow it described everything my grandma was to me she put me up on game about life and wanting me to survive and become somthing great in this world i loved her too peaces
We have Mai 2020 corona is jumping out of nowhere and I of sheer curiosity wrote electric grandma in the search. I remembered watching this in the mid 1980s. So more than 30 years later I found that movie again. And I crying my eyes out. I'm 6.2 high 200 pound of weight and 37 years old. And I can't stop crying my grandparents where my second parents. Believe me I miss them so much. My lost memories of my childhood kicked in and I felt as if I would be a little boy again.
Yup. The whole time I was watching I was a little girl watching TV in the 80s .Then it was over and I was ripped back to 2021. Oh how I wish I was little again.
I just had a flashback to my youth a mere five minutes ago...within it was this movie. TEG had a special place within my heart for some reason; I'll always think of my grandparents when I see it. I would do anything to become a kid again and feel the excitement of seeing them when I was young. Thankfully they are still alive so I can still see them. I wonder if they still remember this movie...
This was my first time ever seeing this short film. I heard about it while watching a Twilght Zone review. I can't imagine the joy the older persons who saw this as children when it first came out who are seeing it again after so long. But what I can feel is the joy this brought me. Thank you for posting it.
I've been looking for this for years. I remembered it as a tv show, didn't realize it was a movie. I still remember so many parts, that scene of her getting dropped off in the box and the key are iconic. I didn't realize it was based on Ray Bradbury's writings.
OMG! Ive been looking for this movie for year! Thank you for sharing❤ I haven't stopped crying yet! This needs to be a Christmas movie shared with our children❤❤❤❤❤❤
You're welcome! I've shared this with my little girl, she digs it. She loves the grandma little dance she does when she plugs in and shuts down for the night
What a wonderful walk down memory lane. I remember watching this movie when I was 6 or 7 years old. I loved it then and love it even more now. Thank you for sharing! I miss the 80’s.
I remember watching this with my Twin when it first aired on tv in like 1982 ! Both of us growing up through the system we fell in love with the fact that a care giver could never die or be hurt. Plus the fact that she could pour chocolate milk out of her finger was the best thing ever!!
Thank you for posting this movie... I recorded it back then too. Now I'm trying to purge "stuff" VHSs included. Now I can finally let go of this VHS knowing I can show to my grandchildren on the internet. Even at 70yo it brings tears!!! Posting on FB for others to see.
Thank you so very much for this movie!!! I remember watching this as a kid with my sister and brother as our house was the only house on the block with HBO, lololol... This movie brings back such fond memories. This movie played close to Christmas and my sister and i would wish year after year as kids that we would get an electric grandma... lolol... Thank you so very much for posting this hard to find movie.
I literally haven't seen this movie since second grade back in the late 80s. I jus randomly thought about it this morning and I Kno RUclips won't let me down. Thanks for posting. I remember after watching it my teacher was crying and told us she lost both her parents and the movie reminded her of it. I didn't exactly feel her pain then but I definitely feel it now!😢😢
This has to be one of my favorite movies as a child!!! None of my friends heard of this awesome masterpiece!!! I didn't know until now that Ray Bradbury wrote this screenplay!! (He also wrote the book: "something wicked this way comes" that's another one of my childhood favorite movies!!) So ty so much for posting this movie!!!
One of my Beloved Classic movies ever since I was a child, I have written a section of a report on the earlier 60's Television of the Twilight Episode, "I sing my Heart Electric". This movie has the greatest heart because when someone passed away like my Grandmother Ruby Virginia Perry that I was Challenged to take care of through the Love of Caring for someone like when my Grandmother Ruby Virginia Perry cared for me when I was child. Her mother may have pass on that faithful tradition of teaching the family to learn from one another as a loving family either biological or Spiritual as they say the portraits of the most beautiful & Spiritual Gifted family who help one another. My Grandmother Ruby may have passed on into the Heavens to live with mother who away pass away when my Grandmother Ruby was either 14 of age in 1932 of giving birth to a boy who was the child to live in Heaven. Much like another grandmother Marge Wetzel who mother passed away at 3 year old when forgot coat in Washington DC who was a teacher and my Grandmother Marge Wetzel become a Elementary School teacher. My Grandmother Marge back in 1984 stood in back of me and took hand in friendship and she told me that how she started the friendship with Howard Wetzel and married him back in 1933. And become man & wife through marriage.
Thank you so much for uploading this to RUclips. It was on TV when my boys were little and now that I have a grandson of my own, it's particularly poignant.
Charles Gervasi I loved this movie when I was a small shield in the 80s. What gets me every time,is the idea of either one of my grandmother s that I love and miss dearly,coming to take care of me again when I'm old and grey. I burst to tears just thinking about it.
I’m a retired elementary school teacher and still have the tape of this. And no way to play it. I can’t explain how excited I am to be able to watch it here and share with my grandchildren!
SAME!! XO
I'm glad you are able to share this with your grandchildren! I'm curious, do you know why so many schools in the 80s had the children watch this movie?
@@pepperj I grew up with this movie, was 2 when it came out, but they were still showing it in the late 80s when I was in 3rd grade. I substitute taught during the mid to late 2000s, by then it was mostly animated Disney flicks and Pixar movies, VHS had been phased out.
I don’t know if this is the right answer, but my guess would be that the 80s was still trying to hold onto that old fashioned, wholesome brand of family values that typified the 1950s. Even though we were a cynical generation, Gen X still had a link to the old boomer ideal of that bygone era, largely because of movies like this one. I feel sorry for Millennials and Gen Z, because culturally speaking, they’ve been handed a raw deal.
There are places that will tsf from vhs tape to a dvd. Cheap too! Watched this with all my grandkids and they loved it. Still do
Why did all these teachers in the early 90s feel the need to expose our impressionable brains to this trippy ass, subtly disturbing, and really pretty dark movie?? I'm glad though, it's stuck with me all this time and I think partially shaped the adult I am... I also remember being shown the Labyrinth and inordinate number of times :)) That's more understandable though...
I started sobbing when she first sang Timothy to sleep, and continued to sob all the way through. I saw this as a 15 yr old with my two younger brothers. All three of us cried at the time. We had lived an extremely difficult childhood. This movie was and still is balm for our souls. Thank you so very much for posting this.
I was obsessed with this movie in 1982, I was 11, I watched it countless times. That's 38 yes ago.I couldn't wait to be a grandma! Today, I am happy to say, I loooooove being a grandma to an 6 and 9 year old grandchildren. I have been looking for this movie FOREVER!!! It's 2020. .I always wondered why she didn't help the great grandchildren and great grandchildren???
Me too
There was another one I saw as a kid called the peanut butter solution.
Me too on all counts! XO
I watched this in the 80s never forgot about it!! No one I know has ever heard of it!!! So thankful to see it again now I’m a grandmother!! Thank you! Thank you!!!
You’re welcome! Congrats on being a grandmother! You are in the select group of people from the 80s that remember this amazing movie!
I saw this as a child in the 80’s, after my own mother had died. I never forgot it and still cry when I watch it all these years later.
I've been looking for this for 35 years. I'm about to cry
Glad you found it! 35 years ago was the first time I saw it
@@pepperj glad you posted it!
Wow, I saw this over thirty years ago. Instantly I was transported back to my childhood when my own grandparents were alive in the world and part of my life. Bought tears to my eyes....in a good way. Thank you for sharing this.
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Yes me too!
Yes, I feel exactly the same way.
I saw it in grade 1- it was traumatizing.. the sound from being played on an antique film projector definitely enhanced the creep factor.
Endeared by the film nowadays, but that talking heart is still creepy AF, goosebumps💯😨
Yall to man. I got goose bumps n tears right now
I saw this in the 80s when I was about twelve. It had something special then - I remember talking about it at school a few days later. I seem to remember most of it really well, but it's quite sad now - I'm not sure why. I think it's because it reminds me of an easier time, when everything was right with the world. Thank you for sharing this.
I grew up in the 80's too... Great times!!!! :)
I'm the same, things make me sad and cry that didn't when I was younger.
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I know exactly how you feel I’m same story, and now it’s easy for me to look up these old movies on RUclips , couldn’t do that back when I was 12!
As a kid, the scene where she pours OJ out of her finger, that stayed with me forever. Don’t know why.
The scene where grandmother sings to Agatha has been on my mind lately. Her voice just randomly popped into my head one afternoon when I was at work. I remember watching the movie when I was little little boy...decades later I find this on RUclips. Thanks for posting the movie!
That's exactly what happened to me too. Strange, the potency of cheap television.
DITTO!! XO
loved this movie as a child, as a teenager and still do now at 52, able to watch this again just allows me to be the young girl, and appreciate the grandmothers love so much more now that I am a grandmother of 12. my children now grown have watched this and I can enjoy it with my older grandkids as of now.
Ive been looking for this forever! No one I know remembers this. Maybe because it was a t.v. movie. Im 47... I was little but i always reminded this movie.
Shit, now I'm crying because I miss having grandparents, I'm 40 and unmarried without kids, and even though I'm not completely alone, it just feels like it now.
i know how you feel.
As long as you have people who love you your never alone
I'm in the same situation so I Kno how u feel or at least hav an idea
To anyone who reads this tell our younger generations to become parents. Either have children or adopt them. We never realize while we’re young that we’ll miss the presence of others when we’re old.
This movie.... This movie always helped me appreciate the people that I love in my own life. It made me think and feel like a child again.
Here in 2022. I watched this in the 80’s at my Grandma’s house. I miss her. 🥺💔
I LOVED this movie as a kid in the 1980s. Absolutely LOVED it. Thanks for posting it. Watched the whole thing and I find that I still love it today.
You're welcome! Yeah this is an awesome 80's flick. This one and Return to Oz were really trippy 80s movies
I love that one too!
Me too!
DarkWillUser I did too. I looked everywhere for it. Such a bitter sweet show.
DITTO!! XO
My inner child is crying in joy that I finally found this movie! I thought I had dreamed it! Thank you!❤
I’m glad you found it!!
I think I only saw this movie a couple times as a child but it randomly popped into my head tonight. All I could remember was how it had made this emotional impact on me as a child. A bittersweet rewatching. I read some of the comments and have a feeling most of us suffered some loss in childhoods. I'm not sure what the takeaway is supposed to be from the movie or why I was ever allowed to watch it unsupervised as a child but it definitely resonated.
There's something about this movie that brings back vivid memories for our generation. For me though, this movie was played pretty much every year in our gradeschool class. Not sure why.
*This movie was special too me as a child...and this is my first time watching it as an adult and it is JUST AS SPECIAL and heartwarming **today.It** was both a bittersweet emotional journey watching it...realizing how much has changed,personally and globally**Funny how this movie had futuristic overtones of what technology would be today...robots living amongst us now*
THANK YOU for uploading and sharing this. This was a movie from my childhood that I've been searching for recently. I'm glad someone helped preserve it.
You bet! Glad you found it!
Same here! Every few years, I have searched for it, and I have finally found it. It did not disappoint, and she is just as sweet as I always remembered her.
I think this movie helped get me through the loss of my dad as a little girl.
I burst into tears near the end. This is beautiful and sad at the same time.
It doesn’t matter how many times I watch this. When old Agatha realizes her grandmother is back and has that expression of joy on her face, it gets me every time
First saw this as a young man...and now, 35 years later...I watched again as a NOT so young man....Heartfelt and Melancoly for the youngster I used to be.
Tim Harper Big time, I hear ya. This is the movie that zaps me right back into my elementary school days.
Oh my God. This short film brings back memories. All I could remember was a robot grandma that poured milk from her finger. I watched this when I was prety young in the 90's in school one day. I have tried to remember the name of this movie thousands of times over the years and finally today decided to Google all I could remember robot pouring milk from finger. I'm so thankful this popped up. Thank you so much for uploading this to RUclips. I can't tell you how grateful I am to have found this short film.
You're welcome! Yeah there's something about this movie that sticks out with a lot of people. This was a movie they showed my class every year in grade school for some reason. Did you ever see Return to Oz? That one is a memory burn for me too!
+pepperj I don't think I have ever seen that movie
Aaron Cosper ahhhh return to oz. A great movie as well
Aaron Cosper that's so funny. That's exactly the only thing i could remember of the movie too! And that brought me here ☺
Aaron Cosper thats so funny. I have the same exact situation
Lay down, try not to cry. End up bawling my eyes out for the electric grandmother. :*(
Me too!
I loved this movie as a child. I lost my mom a month ago and this movie came to mind tonight. I love it. ❤❤😊
This was a truly amazing movie.
I do remember watching it when the movie first came out in 1982. The year I graduated from High School.
I have seen it one other time I believe.
I have never ever forgotten this movie.
It brings me tears of joy.
Over the years I have lost so so many loved ones.
It has been very difficult.
Somehow this movie has been of comfort to me.
Knowing their Electric Grandmother is still out there.
Unchanged . Still so lovingly humming and ticking away.
As perfect as she always was. ❤
Thank you !!
In case you don't know it - Ray Bradbury wrote this story, first as a film script in 1962 and later as a short story in 1969 called 'I Sing The Body Electric' (a title borrowed from American poet Walt Whitman).
thanks for the backstory
But wait there’s more! He originally wrote it as a Twilight Zone episode by the same name!
Some scenes from this always stuck in my mind but I couldn't remember the name. I was 6 when I watched it and for years thought I must have dreamed it. Guess I'll watch it again.
It's just as trippy as you remembered too.
Ray Bradbury, no one does it like that anymore.
I just rewatched Cocoon a few weeks ago and remembered The actress Maureen Stapleton was in this made for TV movie I loved as a child but couldn’t for the life remember anything other than the sad ending and pouring the milk from her finger. Looking up all the movies Maureen has been in, I found this long lost gem I think all kids in the 80’s watched in school. This movie brings back so many memories and if it doesn’t bring tears to your eyes, are you even human.
everytime i tell someone "The Grandma that poured milk out of her finger"
people think im crazy.. haha
Love it. Thanks for posting.
Mike Sipe I feel bad for people that don't have this crazy movie as a memory
I have the same memory found the film at last the milk out of the finger old lady 😄😄😄
This comment had me rolling
Me tooooooo😂😂😂 I’m so happy I found this.
I've never heard of this movie until I saw it posted on Facebook this week. Coincidentally, I checked out I SING THE BODY ELECTRIC (the twilight zone episode also)from the library around the same time I saw the post! I'm pretty sure they are very similar...same author
My boy Ricky brought me here!
Young, beginning elementary when I first saw this. My sister and I decided to reenact the car scene, we were in an apartment parking lot, dead end. I pushed her, "fell" down behind a car. Well at some point the owners came out and got in the car and started backing up. Thankfully I rolled with the car and only had minor injuries. My sister threw a newspaper at their car to get them to stop. Probably why I never forgot this movie. So happy to see it again.
This Movie still makes me cry, even after all these years.
Believe it or not im only 18 and I actually used to watch this movie all the time when i was little😂it used to fascinate me, make me cry, and even freak me out a little. Watching this again for the first time in over a decade (probably since i was 6) blew my mind and made me feel small again🥰
Thanks for sharing. My daughter is 6. She’s known about this movie for a few years now (all my doing). Her favorite part is the power down dance the grandma does. That makes me think…when my kid is 16 will she think about this movie? Did your parents introduce you to this movie?
I just watched it now and was in tears the entire time. I don't think I saw it before, but I read the Bradbury short story as a kid. His work always affected me, so finding this film on RUclips really made my night. Thank you so much.
That's awesome to hear! Thanks
Thank you so much for sharing this! I was 6 or 7 years old the last time I saw this on TV, and it left such an imprint on me.
What a beautiful movie. I'm 42 , and my mother showed me this when I was a child , and ill always associate this movie with my great childhood. Thank you for posting this
You’re welcome! I’m glad to hear you had a great childhood!
I have been telling my kids about this movie for ages. I’ve had the Agatha song in my head for 40 years. I have always loved this movie. It’s one of the reasons I decided I wanted long hair when I was a Granny. To the people saying this is a creepy movie, you didn’t grow up when we did. This movie means a great deal to us . This was made when things were much more simple and laid back. There were Dads that still dressed like that, I had that coat that Aggie wore. I wore my hair like Aggie . Had the same night gown style. Back off and let us be happy.
Ditto❤
Things certainly didn't feel that simple... As kids we were brought up to accept loss and tragedy. So much of what was taught to and aimed at us during that time was about losing one or both parents, being abandoned, becoming orphans, having to live on the streets, adults deliberately exploiting and tricking us.... On top of all that we were constantly being told that we were about to kidnapped and murdered!!
I think a lot of us grew up fairly afraid and distrustful there for a while.
"Husbands,wives,families....we three outlived them all." I suppose if I outlived my wife and children,id resort to being a child wanting my grandmother with me. That's insanely tragic.
I remember this movie, as it actually reminded & still reminds me of grandmother who passed away 14 years ago; for this film always brought back the happiness of my life. Something sorely missing these days..😢😢😢
Holy crap. You just opened a door in my brain that's been closed for eons. I'm 39. I used to watch this crazy shit!
lol "crazy shit" accurate description
I watched it in elementary school, I'm 38😁
i will never forget this movie. it had a huge impact on me and i agree, even though robots and AI is creepy, this movie brought a tear to my eye tonight, in a good way
What a wonderful movie, I remember seeing it years ago I was 13yo and remembered to be very touch by it, my maternal grandmother whom I considered my second mother, died when I was 12yo. Thank you .
"I sing the Body Electric" 💜😊
I watched this when I was little, now I'm a grandma. This movie still makes me cry! So glad to have found it again!
I watched this in the 80s ... at my Catholic kindergarten school. I loved this movie.... took me years to find it. thank you
I randomly remembered this movie after nearly 40 years. I have no idea why but it really brought back some memories.
Same here. Not quite 40 years but damn near. I’ve thought of it occasionally over the years. Always remembered so vividly the King of the Hill scene at the end when Agatha ran up. We were watching it in my second or third grade classroom. I was so focused on watching the tv screen while walking to my desk I tripped over the power cord and broke the plug. For obvious reasons that memory kind of stuck with me. 😁
Grandma's song always moved me to tears. As someone who watched this as part of a special assembly in elementary school on an actual film projector, it always stayed with me. Now as a late 40-something, it still fills me with warmth, joy, and sadness.
7:24 - the part of this movie that's stuck with me for 30+ years, the boy clicking the pieces of the heart together & that musical tone of the voices, it takes me back XD
I didn't realize the oldest brother was Eliot's brother from ET!
Musical...that's one way to describe it. I lean towards "horrifying", but to each his own, lol.
@@chriswalker1412 horrifying in a nostalgic, musical way
Yeah it's such a fun coincidence that he starred in 2 family-friendly sci-fi shows where he played the eldest of 3 children with a cute younger bro & extremely cute younger sis 😊
For whatever reasons, this movie stuck with me when I was a kid. Every few years, I remembered this movie for one reason or another. It was very emotional and now decades later, I plan to sit down with my 8yo and hopefully she will find it as heartwarming as I did.
I was 10 when this came out and I love it just as much today as when I first seen it. It's a classic!!!!!! Thanks for posting it.
I first saw this at Hatton Elementary School in 4th grade! Thank you for uploading!
Revisiting during covid19 October 2020. It's good to shed tears in private over cheesy touching stories. I just got done watching E.T. and weeping. Especially over " E.T. phone home". And now this after looking up Robert MacNaughton (older brother Michael).
Thank you for posting this. It brings me to warm loving memories of my childhood.
Michael L. Edmonds you bet! Same here
Thank your uploading this. I've been searching for this for forever. It's such a bittersweet story. Still makes me tear up.
I’ve been looking for this movie for years!! Thank you!!
Love this movie. Thank you for posting. Remember watching it with my boys so many years ago. Left a lasting impression. And sometimes one needs to go back and remember.
You bet! Yeah, this movie has been burned into my memory from watching as a child
I haven’t seen this in 30 years. Wow. Wonderful short story.
Rewatching this made me ugly cry. Thank you. Please keep this video up forever.
Thank you SO very much for sharing this. I was born in 1981, but watched this movie religiously at my grandparents house, like on repeat. My grandma has been gone for many years now and this brought back so many memories. I truly appreciate you sharing this. I feel like most people I know have never even heard of this movie, but it will always be a gem. Thank you! ❤
PS I FaceTimed with my grandpa and just played the intro and he immediately knew what it was!
that’s a great story, thanks for sharing! Im glad you found it and it brought back some good memories. i was also born in 81. this movie was played all the time at my elementary school for some reason. It’s been a memory burn for me and a few people that went to the same school. Facetime with your gramps to play the intro is awesome!
I have been humming a tune to my youngest grandson and couldn’t place where it was from. It always puts him straight to sleep as it did 5 minutes ago. Now I remember where it came from
I’ve wanted to see this again for so many years. Thank you ❤❤❤❤❤❤
You’re welcome!! Glad you found it
Thank you for uploading this. Just vague images and memories of this film has made it difficult to describe to people... but then you just bring up the juice bar from her fingers!
I’m a lonely dude in my 40s, and the last time I saw this was when I was about 3, and I was at my grandmother’s house. Needless to say, I was hit with a wave of emotions I haven’t felt for 3 decades!
Thanks again for taking the time to post this!
Classic , i saw this movie on those old film projectors ,takes me back to 3rd grade. Memories.
When I was a kid me and mother loved this movie , brings back great memories. Thank you for posting
I just read about this on all movie guide, and already my heart has sunk down to my stomach and I'm at the awkward area between breaking down sobbing or just staying quiet and showing somber reverence.
Saw it as a child never cried watching it then now that im all grown up and loved ones have moved on and I know the pain of loseing someone will let's jus say can somebody pass the tissues #missyougrandma
Julian Wallace I hear ya... plus throw in the factor that this movie brings up a time when we were children watching this in school or at home, I don’t know about you but for me a million childhood memories come up when I watch this (or hear the music). Sorry for your losses!
That song @ the end wow it described everything my grandma was to me she put me up on game about life and wanting me to survive and become somthing great in this world i loved her too peaces
We have Mai 2020 corona is jumping out of nowhere and I of sheer curiosity wrote electric grandma in the search. I remembered watching this in the mid 1980s. So more than 30 years later I found that movie again. And I crying my eyes out. I'm 6.2 high 200 pound of weight and 37 years old. And I can't stop crying my grandparents where my second parents. Believe me I miss them so much. My lost memories of my childhood kicked in and I felt as if I would be a little boy again.
Omg was anyone else sobbing at the end?
Yup. The whole time I was watching I was a little girl watching TV in the 80s .Then it was over and I was ripped back to 2021. Oh how I wish I was little again.
God Bless whoever put this movie on You Tube! My sister and I loved this movie when we were kids ! The memories! Thank you !!!!
Anyone who don't cry at the end of this movie has no heart
I first saw this as an episode of Special Delivery on Nickelodeon in the mid-to-late 1980s.
A magical time then wasn't it?
I just had a flashback to my youth a mere five minutes ago...within it was this movie. TEG had a special place within my heart for some reason; I'll always think of my grandparents when I see it. I would do anything to become a kid again and feel the excitement of seeing them when I was young. Thankfully they are still alive so I can still see them. I wonder if they still remember this movie...
This was my first time ever seeing this short film. I heard about it while watching a Twilght Zone review. I can't imagine the joy the older persons who saw this as children when it first came out who are seeing it again after so long. But what I can feel is the joy this brought me. Thank you for posting it.
I've been looking for this for years. I remembered it as a tv show, didn't realize it was a movie. I still remember so many parts, that scene of her getting dropped off in the box and the key are iconic. I didn't realize it was based on Ray Bradbury's writings.
We had "Grandparent's Day" at my elementary school and I remember watching this with my Grandmother. Thanks for posting!
High0nLullabies that would have been cool, I remember grandparents day but we didn't watch it then. Glad u like the post
OMG! Ive been looking for this movie for year! Thank you for sharing❤ I haven't stopped crying yet! This needs to be a Christmas movie shared with our children❤❤❤❤❤❤
You're welcome! I've shared this with my little girl, she digs it. She loves the grandma little dance she does when she plugs in and shuts down for the night
I used to watch this on a recorded vhs tape with my mom when i was a child. Makes me miss her so much.
My kids and I loved this show and watched it over and over again. I never get tired of it!
What a wonderful walk down memory lane. I remember watching this movie when I was 6 or 7 years old. I loved it then and love it even more now. Thank you for sharing! I miss the 80’s.
You're welcome! Yeah I miss them 80s too! glad it brought back nice memories
I remember watching this with my Twin when it first aired on tv in like 1982 ! Both of us growing up through the system we fell in love with the fact that a care giver could never die or be hurt. Plus the fact that she could pour chocolate milk out of her finger was the best thing ever!!
I'm amazed this is even available. I saw it only ONCE back in the 80's. I LOVED it! Thanks for posting :)
Took me right back to being a kid. Thanks for posting this!
for sure! takes me back everytime too
Thank you King for putting this up. Used to watch this in summer recreation. Good memories.
Thank you for posting this movie... I recorded it back then too. Now I'm trying to purge "stuff" VHSs included. Now I can finally let go of this VHS knowing I can show to my grandchildren on the internet. Even at 70yo it brings tears!!! Posting on FB for others to see.
Yeah what was up with playing this movie all the time?? I was in elementary school like 1989-94 and remember seeing this at least 5 times
Thank you so very much for this movie!!! I remember watching this as a kid with my sister and brother as our house was the only house on the block with HBO, lololol... This movie brings back such fond memories. This movie played close to Christmas and my sister and i would wish year after year as kids that we would get an electric grandma... lolol... Thank you so very much for posting this hard to find movie.
I loved this movie when I was a kid. It hits way different now that I’m old. I miss my grandma.. and my Ma.
I lost my mom this past April, the best mom and grandma in the world this music made me cry so much
Wow, I remember this movie. I used to love this one, I'm surprised it hasn't been remade yet.
William Venson a remake would pale in comparison. There is so much heart in this movie! ❤
This is actually a remake of a Twilight Zone episode.
I literally haven't seen this movie since second grade back in the late 80s. I jus randomly thought about it this morning and I Kno RUclips won't let me down. Thanks for posting. I remember after watching it my teacher was crying and told us she lost both her parents and the movie reminded her of it. I didn't exactly feel her pain then but I definitely feel it now!😢😢
I used to watch this movie at the library on reel to reel haha
This has to be one of my favorite movies as a child!!! None of my friends heard of this awesome masterpiece!!! I didn't know until now that Ray Bradbury wrote this screenplay!! (He also wrote the book: "something wicked this way comes" that's another one of my childhood favorite movies!!) So ty so much for posting this movie!!!
I remember seeing this a very long time ago and wanting to see it again for some time thank you for posting it
Saw this on TV years ago..............
Still love it, still timeless magic.....
Thanks for posting! 👵🤖💗
Thank you for posting a part of my childhood. I watched this movie many, many times ❤
you bet! this a part of my childhood too, memory burn!
One of my Beloved Classic movies ever since I was a child, I have written a section of a report on the earlier 60's Television of the Twilight Episode, "I sing my Heart Electric". This movie has the greatest heart because when someone passed away like my Grandmother Ruby Virginia Perry that I was Challenged to take care of through the Love of Caring for someone like when my Grandmother Ruby Virginia Perry cared for me when I was child. Her mother may have pass on that faithful tradition of teaching the family to learn from one another as a loving family either biological or Spiritual as they say the portraits of the most beautiful & Spiritual Gifted family who help one another. My Grandmother Ruby may have passed on into the Heavens to live with mother who away pass away when my Grandmother Ruby was either 14 of age in 1932 of giving birth to a boy who was the child to live in Heaven. Much like another grandmother Marge Wetzel who mother passed away at 3 year old when forgot coat in Washington DC who was a teacher and my Grandmother
Marge Wetzel become a Elementary School teacher. My Grandmother Marge back in 1984 stood in back of me and took hand in friendship and she told me that how she started the friendship with Howard Wetzel and married him back in 1933. And become man & wife through marriage.
Thank you so much for uploading this to RUclips. It was on TV when my boys were little and now that I have a grandson of my own, it's particularly poignant.
You are very welcome! Hope the grandson likes it!
Anybody who doesn't cry at the end has no heart.
Damn right!
The kids said it would take million billion years but they were grown up by the time they reached the other end of the field.
Charles Gervasi I loved this movie when I was a small shield in the 80s. What gets me every time,is the idea of either one of my grandmother s that I love and miss dearly,coming to take care of me again when I'm old and grey. I burst to tears just thinking about it.
Child. Not shield. I hate autocorrect.
Sean Moran every body has a heart who ever spent have a heart would die
I just cried half of my body weight. holy shit.
RolandRED nothing wrong with that
Same thing with me i cried also
same hete