Editing Klaatu (band) (section)

==Animated film project==
In 1977, [[Al Guest]] and [[Jean Mathieson]] of Rainbow Animation were commissioned by Capitol Records to create an animated [[music video]] of the song "[[A Routine Day]]".<ref name="auto1">{{Cite web |title=Cartoons Considered for an Academy Award – 1978 &#124; |url=http://cartoonresearch.com/index.php/cartoons-considered-for-an-academy-award-1978/ |website=Cartoonresearch.com}}</ref> This video ran on ''[[Don Kirshner's Rock Concert]]'' and subsequently played as a short in Los Angeles on the same bill as ''[[Animal House]]''.

Following that, Guest and Mathieson got permission from Capitol Records to create a vehicle for Klaatu's songs. They wrote and directed a half-hour television special they titled ''Happy New Year Planet Earth'', hoping that it would get yearly broadcasts as an alternative to Christmas specials. New Year's Eve was Mathieson's birthday. Again the group Klaatu was photographed and rotoscoped, with an astronaut wraparound created to connect the six Klaatu songs. Although the project was completed, Guest and Mathieson were dropped by their Canadian film investment group and wound up financing it themselves. They never released it.<ref name="auto1" />

In 2005, the group permitted the film to be screened in its uncompleted state at the KlaatuKon convention in Toronto.<ref name="auto">{{Cite web |title=KlaatuKon 2005 by Mark Hershberger |url=http://earcandymag.com/klaatukon-2005.htm |website=Earcandymag.com}}</ref> The unfinished animations were later released as part of the 2013 Sir Army Suit bonus disc.<ref>Archived at [https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/HpzfuStEyRc Ghostarchive]{{cbignore}} and the [https://web.archive.org/web/20201101184047/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpzfuStEyRc&feature=youtu.be Wayback Machine]{{cbignore}}: {{Cite web |title=Klaatu - Behind The Scenes (Sir Army Suit Bonus DVD) |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpzfuStEyRc |website=Youtube.com}}{{cbignore}}</ref>