Fantastic Animation Festival

Fantastic Animation Festival
Directed by	Dean A. Berko Christopher Padillo
Narrated by	Paul Frees (Opening Narration) Spike Milligan (Moonshadow)
Music by	Richard Audd
Studio	Voyage Productions
Release date(s)	November 25, 1977
Running time	91 min. 80 min. (USA TV version)
Country	USA
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.

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"
"Icarus"; French clay animation
"The Last Cartoon Man"; by Derek Lamb & Jeffrey Hale
"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"
"A Short History of the Wheel"; by Loren Bowie
"Superman and The Mechanical Monsters"; a 1941 Fleischer Studios cartoon
a 7Up commercial
a Levi Strauss Jeans commercial

All segments citation: ^[1]