Fantastic Animation Festival
| Fantastic Animation Festival | |
|---|---|
| Directed by |
Dean A. Berko Christopher Padilla |
| Narrated by |
Paul Frees (Opening Narration) Spike Milligan (Moonshadow) |
| Music by | Richard Audd |
Production company |
Voyage Productions |
Release dates | November 25, 1977 |
Running time |
91 min. 80 min. (USA TV version) |
| Country |
 United States |
| Language | English |
Fantastic Animation Festival is a package film of animation segments, mostly to music, released in 1977. It was one of the earliest of the sort of collections typified by Computer Animation Festival and Spike and Mike's Sick and Twisted Festival of Animation.
Included in its 16 segments was the first national appearance of Will Vinton's Claymation (Closed Mondays), Bambi Meets Godzilla, and a Superman cartoon from the 1940s.[1]
Segments
(The following are in alphabetical, rather than running order.)
- Introduction; voice-over ("Welcome to the world of animation") by Paul Frees
- Au Bout Du Fil Cradle (Cat's Cradle); by Paul Driessen
- Bambi Meets Godzilla; by Marv Newland
- Closed Mondays; Claymation by Will Vinton (Academy Award Winner for Best Animated Short Film)
- Cosmic Cartoon; Animated and directed by Eric Ladd and Steven Lisberger
- French Windows; rotoscope animation to Pink Floyd's "One of These Days" by Ian Eames
- Icarus; French clay animation (by Mihail Badica)
- Kick Me (by Robert Swarthe), a 1975 Best Animated Short Film nominee
- The Last Cartoon Man; by Derek Lamb & Jeffrey Hale
- Light (by Jordan Belson)
- Mirror People; by Kathy Rose
- Moonshadow; Cat Stevens' story of Teaser and the Firecat, narrated by Spike Milligan
- Mountain Music; Claymation by Will Vinton
- Oiseau de Nuit (Nightbird); by Bernard Palacios
- Room and Board; by Randy Cartwright
- A Short History of the Wheel; by Loren Bowie
- Superman and The Mechanical Monsters; a 1941 Fleischer Studios cartoon
- Uncola; a 1975 7Up commercial; by Robert Abel and Associates
- Stranger; a 1971 Levi Strauss Jeans commercial; by Snazelle Films, narrated by Ken Nordine
All segments citation:[2]
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