Popular Culture
Beyond the Mind's Eye was a bestseller in the USA when it was originally released on VHS and laserdisc. Roger Ebert selected it as his "Video Pick of the Week" on the week of December 25, 1992 on Siskel & Ebert.
Several excerpts from The Mind's Eye were seen in the 1992 film The Lawnmower Man, which itself was featured in Beyond the Mind's Eye. The Mind's Eye and Beyond the Mind's Eye were both integral components in YTV's Short Circutz run. Several excerpts from the 1995 film, Johnny Mnemonic, and the 1994 game, Ecco: The Tides of Time, were also featured in Odyssey Into The Mind's Eye.
A sequence from Beyond the Mind's Eye titled "Panspermia" was used for the music video for Planet Caravan by Pantera. (A cover of a 1970 Black Sabbath song.)
James Reynolds' compositions from The Mind's Eye: A Computer Animation Odyssey have featured in both the 264th and 271st episodes of The Hearts of Space, respectively entitled "The Lost Frontier," and "West of the Galaxy"
A short segment taken from the Mike Oldfield music video Let There Be Light from his album The Songs of Distant Earth is included in the Oceanic Celebration video from Odyssey Into the Mind's Eye.
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