--- title: Black and White Teletubbies Video Set to Joy Division description: New viral video shows black and white version of Teletubbies footage set to Joy Division canonical: https://time.com/3762153/teletubbies-joy-division-video/ author: Melissa Locker article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-03-27T22:00:19.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:18:08.496Z og:title: This Black-and-White Video of the Teletubbies Looks Like a Horror Film og:description: New viral video shows black and white version of Teletubbies footage set to Joy Division og:url: https://time.com/3762153/teletubbies-joy-division-video/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: This Black-and-White Video of the Teletubbies Looks Like a Horror Film twitter:description: New viral video shows black and white version of Teletubbies footage set to Joy Division twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # This Black-and-White Footage of the Teletubbies Looks Like a Horror Film by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Mar 27, 2015 10:00 PM UTC by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Mar 27, 2015 10:00 PM UTC Who knew that the Teletubbies in black and white would look like a shot from an Ingmar Bergman-directed horror film? A grainy black-and-white [image](http://9gag.com/gag/a0Le0RZ/teletubbies-are-horrible-when-black-and-white) of the Teletubbies, those lovable, huggable children’s television characters, has been circulating the Internet for a few days. While many Twitter users have noted that the image of the huggable furries devoid of their technicolor hue is strangely haunting, verging on horrifying, [others](https://twitter.com/stefstivala/status/580889388843819008) commented that the photo looked like a still from the Anton Corbijn-directed music video for “Atmosphere” by post-punkers, Joy Division. YouTube user Christopher Brown latched on to that idea and ran with it. He took footage of the fuzzy little tubbies, stripped out the color, and soon enough Tinky-Winky, Dipsy, Laa Laa and Po were frolicking through a bleak post-apocalyptic wasteland. Add in the downbeat Joy Division soundtrack, and the result is a wildly weird, strangely avant-garde, creepy video that feels equal part Bergman, David Lynch, and Disney cosplay. Clearly it’s a must-see. If Joy Division isn’t your cup of tea, someone also made an [Aphex Twin](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxWR87llQW0) version. (h/t [Vanyaland](http://www.vanyaland.com/2015/03/26/just-like-that-someone-created-a-black-and-white-teletubbies-video-soundtracked-by-joy-division/)) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3762153/teletubbies-joy-division-video/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3762153/teletubbies-joy-division-video/"},"headline":"This Black-and-White Footage of the Teletubbies Looks Like a Horror Film","datePublished":"2015-03-27T22:00:19.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:18:08.496Z","description":"Warning: You may never see the Teletubbies the same way after watching this clip set to the rock band Joy Division","url":"https://time.com/3762153/teletubbies-joy-division-video/","keywords":["Newsfeed","viral","Viral Videos"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Locker","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3762153/teletubbies-joy-division-video/","name":"This Black-and-White Footage of the Teletubbies Looks Like a Horror Film"}}]}] ```