Body Electric Animate Cartoon Featuring the Music of Rush (WARNING Strobe Lighting)

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Science Fiction & Fantasy Stack Exchange answerers link it as the identification for story-identification questions about an obscure 80s cartoon with a robotic-armed hero and a post-apocalyptic domed city.

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What it is

A full upload of The Body Electric, a short 1985 Canadian made-for-TV animated film from Atkinson Film-Arts set to music by Rush. It follows two young humans, Woody and Andrea, trying to escape a dying domed city left behind after a robot uprising. The upload carries a strobe lighting warning.

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Cites Pac · 2013-06 · Science Fiction & Fantasy Stack Exchange · on “Cartoon movie where the main character had a robotic arm”

This sounds like The Body Electric. A 1985 animated feature produced by Canadian animation studio Atkinson Film-Arts (whose credits include the movie Heavy Metal) featuring music from Rush. The hero reveals he has a robotic arm eventually, there's a female side kick and the bad guy is a bratty teen as suggested. There's a version on YouTube here...

Cites Conrad Bennish Jr · 2018-07 · Science Fiction & Fantasy Stack Exchange · on “Story Identification: 1980s series about four characters who escape a post-apocalyptic city in a bubble”

Is it possible this is The Body Electric ? It's detailed in this other question: Cartoon movie where the main character had a robotic arm [LINK] . It's also the answer to my question so I guess maybe there are three duplicates? Plot summary from here [LINK] : The story for The Body Electric is about the humans of Red Sector A being forced to leave the city by a robot uprising but that was rather short sighted on the robot overlords part as everything begins to decay and fall into ruin including the a shield generator that is about to reach meltdown…which is a bad thing for the two young humans who are exploring the city. Can Woody and Andrea make it past the robots alive? Will they be able t

Cites Conrad Bennish Jr · 2018-07 · Science Fiction & Fantasy Stack Exchange · on “Help identifying this animation about a locked-down city overtaken by androids”

Turns out this is The Body Electric, as detailed in this other question: Cartoon movie where the main character had a robotic arm [LINK] So good to have finally found it! (It's not that great actually but it was driving me nuts).

Cites LogicDictates · 2021-10 · Science Fiction & Fantasy Stack Exchange · on “Anime or cartoon where one of the main characters had a robotic/cyborg arm and was protecting a young woman”

Might this be The Body Electric [LINK] (1985)...? From IMDB: Red Sector A was a paradise...for a man's machines. The domed city was home to the last of the human race, where they lived in comfort, served by their robotic servants. Until one day a mysterious force turns the robots against their masters, and the machines cast the people out of Red Sector A into the wastelands outside. Years later, the robots have collapsed into dust without human maintenance, leaving two young people - Woody and Andrea - to live in the city. But the city is on the verge of a exploding as the shield generator approaches meltdown. Andrea and Woody have a few hours to escape Red Sector A, but the unknown force th

Cites LogicDictates · 2022-07 · Science Fiction & Fantasy Stack Exchange · on “80/90s post-apocalyptic anime/cartoon about the destruction of a domed city”

Sounds like _ The Body Electric [LINK] (1985). From an IMDB user review [LINK] : "The Body Electric" is a short, but pretty rare made-for-TV cartoon from 1985, directed by the uncredited David Feiss. It was produced by the former company Atkinson Film-Arts. The main IMDB plot summary reads as follows: Red Sector A was a paradise...for a man's machines. The domed city was home to the last of the human race, where they lived in comfort, served by their robotic servants. Until one day a mysterious force turns the robots against their masters, and the machines cast the people out of Red Sector A into the wastelands outside. Years later, the robots have collapsed into dust without human maintenan