Fantastic Animation Festival

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 were the first national appearance of Will Vinton's Claymation (Closed Mondays and Mountain Music), Bambi Meets Godzilla, and a previously seen Superman cartoon from the 1940s (The Mechanical Monsters).

Segments

(The following are in running order.)

Introduction; voice-over ("Welcome to the world of animation") by Paul Frees
French Windows; rotoscope animation to Pink Floyd's "One of These Days" by Ian Eames
Icarus; French clay animation by Mihail Badica
A Short History of the Wheel; by Loren Bowie
Cosmic Cartoon; Animated and directed by Eric Ladd and Steven Lisberger
The Last Cartoon Man; by Derek Lamb & Jeffrey Hale
Au Bout Du Fil Cradle (Cat's Cradle); by Paul Driessen
Moonshadow; Cat Stevens' story of Teaser and the Firecat, narrated by Spike Milligan, by Charles Jenkins
Oiseau de Nuit] (Nightbird); by Bernard Palacios
Room and Board; by Randy Cartwright
Bambi Meets Godzilla; by Marv Newland
Mountain Music; Claymation by Will Vinton
Light; by Jordan Belson
The Mechanical Monsters; a 1941 Fleischer Studios cartoon
Stranger; a 1971 Levi Strauss Jeans commercial; by Snazelle Films, narrated by Ken Nordine
Uncola; a 1975 7Up commercial; by Robert Abel and Associates
Mirror People; by Kathy Rose
Kick Me (film); by Robert Swarthe, a 1975 Best Animated Short Film nominee
Closed Mondays; Claymation by Will Vinton (Academy Award Winner for Best Animated Short Film)

All segments citation:^[1]

External links

Fantastic Animation Festival on IMDb
[] on YouTube

Citations

↑ "Fantastic Animation Festival". AllMovie.

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