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80s instrumental music video: Handkerchief / Rag flying through a futuristic house
I've seen this clip in West-Germany as well as on Croatian TV in the second half of the 80s.

I'm interested in finding out title and artist of the music. It's an instrumental song - if I had to guess music and music video must have both been produced in the first half of the 80s oder in the mid 80s.

Here are some memories about the plot of the video clip that carries the music - I'm not sure if the plot is reported totally right, since I saw the clip about 30 to 35 years ago.

Video begins with a dark room, then some spotlights are turned on and point one after another at some accesories in the room - let's say a ball or a spere. There is also a man sitting in the room; he seems to be monitoring something - like he's sitting in a recording studio in front of a mixing console or simmilar. The house where the action takes place appears to be a little futuristic. Later in the clip the man behind his console is shown two or three times for some moments.

But the main plot is about a rag oder hankerdchief which first rests on a piece of furniture and, as the music begins to play louder, starts a flight through the whole futuristic house.

Later there is scene during this flight, when the rag flies through a corridor. There are fotographies in picture frames hangin on the wall on each side of the corridor. On both sides there is picture frame showing a fotography with a swimming pool. As the rag passes these two picture frames among others, there is a person diving horizontally from the frame on the one side of the corridor towards the other picture frame at the opposite wall.

As the music ends - the action is closed by a big tile which covers the whole video scene. On the tile are the closing credits like "A Multi Media Motion" or "A Video Motion Company" or something like that.

Description of the music sound: It's synthesizer music with drums. Instrumentaion, if I had to guess, I would date the production year to the first half of the 80s. I think It's not a famous music recording like "Axel F", that nearly everbody would know about. I'm pretty sure that this video wasn't shown on MTV or channels like this. So that makes it difficult to find out what the name of the music might be or who might be the artist of the song.

I've tried a lot. I searched for "flying rag" or "flying handkerchief" at Youtube, but didn't succeed. Somebody gave me an advice to search for a word or tag like "vaporwave" and indeed - that's the kind of aesthetic that can be recognized in the clip I'm talking about. Though some of the clips are 3 or 4 hours long and contain rich material, unfortunatly I couldn't discover the music track, I've been searching for.

Does anyone have an idea about this clip an the instrumental music ? 2A00:1F:80:5A01:CCA9:D390:25EE:69C0 (talk) 03:45, 4 November 2023 (UTC)


 * There is a similar flying red rag (or scarf) in a fan-made but popular video made to accompany Black Sabbath's song 'War Pigs', but this is evidently not the same. I mention it because web searches might pick it up as a false hit. {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 94.2.5.208 (talk) 11:27, 4 November 2023 (UTC)
 * Thank you for your answer. I didn't know about this music video by Black Sabbath.
 * Unfortunatly this is not the clip I'm searching for. The music, of course sounds very
 * futuristic. If I had to compare the music style than it would come close to something like the Miami Vice Theme by Jan Hammer.
 * Production year of the music and the music video might be found more in the mid 80s than in the beginning of the 80s, as I rethink this topic. 2A00:1F:80:5A01:CCA9:D390:25EE:69C0 (talk) 19:36, 4 November 2023 (UTC)

I can't find or recall anything like what you describe. This video is a compilation of some of the biggest instrumental songs from the 80s and some of the clips show parts of the associated videos. Maybe something there will jog your memory? Matt Deres (talk) 23:43, 5 November 2023 (UTC)