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Wikipedia article
'Fantastic Animation Festival' is a package film of animation segments, set mostly to music and released to theaters 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 (the co-founders of the latter, formerly known as Festival of Animation, send out flyers of 'Fantastic Animation Festival').[https://www.dublab.com/events/49960/fantastic-animation-festival-1977/ DUBLAB & Cinefamily Present: Fantastic Animation Festival (1977) - dublab][https://theparkwaytheater.com/all-events/spike-mike-cartoon-fest Spike and Mike's Sick & Twisted Festival Parkway Theater]
Summary
Included in its original form of 16 segments were the first national appearance of Will Vinton's Claymation ('Closed Mondays' and 'Mountain Music'), 'Bambi Meets Godzilla', Cat Stevens' animated promo for his song 'Moonshadow' that was shown at his early concerts, and a previously seen Max Fleischer Superman cartoon from the 1940s ('The Mechanical Monsters').[https://www.tvguide.com/movies/fantastic-animation-festival/review/2000261429/ TV Guide] The original running time was 107 minutes, which was later edited down to 90 minutes,[https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2706&dat=19791027&id=DhJKAAAAIBAJ&sjid=Sx4NAAAAIBAJ&pg=878,3233866 The Michaigan Daily - Google Books (Oct. 27, 1979)] and then edited for television, to 80 minutes.
Segments
(The following are in running order.)
*"Welcome to the world of animation" introduction;[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOd9qiiWxqk Fantastic Animation Festival Intro-YouTube] voice-over by Paul Frees who also narrated the trailer [https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-4k-r_Ycbik Fantastic Animation Festival theatrical trailer 1977 on YouTube]
*'French Windows'; rotoscope animation to Pink Floyd's "One of These Days" by Ian Eames
*'Icarus'; Romanian 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 (National Film Board of Canada)
*'Moonshadow'; Cat Stevens' story of Teaser and the Firecat, narrated by Spike Milligan, by Charles Jenkins
*'Oiseau de Nuit' ('Nightbird'); by Bernard Palacios [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0287606/ Oiseau de nuit (1975)-IMDB]
*'Room and Board'; by Randy Cartwright
*'Bambi Meets Godzilla'; by Marv Newland
*'Mountain Music'; Claymation by Will Vinton[http://nightflight.com/will-vintons-closed-mondays-mountain-music-were-highlights-of-night-flight-midnight-movie-fave-fantastic-animation-festival-1977/ Will Vintons Closed Mondays & Mountain Music were highlights of Night Flight midnight movie fave Fantastic Animation Festival (1977)-Night Flight]
*'Light'; by Jordan Belson[https://www.theculturium.com/jordan-belson-sentience-in-celluloid/ Jordan Belson: Sentience in Celluloid-The Culturium]
*'The Mechanical Monsters'; a public domain 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 [http://www.oscars.org/film-archive/collections/kathy-rose-collection Kathy Rose Collection|Oscars.org]
*'Kick Me'; by Robert Swarthe, a 1975 Best Animated Short Film nominee
*'Closed Mondays'; Claymation by Will Vinton and Bob Gardiner (1974 Academy Award Winner for Best Animated Short Film) [http://nightflight.com/will-vintons-closed-mondays-mountain-music-were-highlights-of-night-flight-midnight-movie-fave-fantastic-animation-festival-1977/ Will Vintons Closed Mondays & Mountain Music were highlights of Night Flight midnight movie fave Fantastic Animation Festival (1977)-Night Flight]
All segments citation
See also
*International Tournee of Animation
*Animation Show of Shows
*The Animation Show
Notes
The 1941 Academy Award-nominated 'Superman (AKA The Mad Scientist)' was featured on the TV version while the episode ended with 'Mirror People' instead of 'Closed Mondays'.[https://www.nightflightplus.com/videos/night-flight-fantastic-animation-festival/5914507bc1475a149202c299 Night Flight - Fantastic Animation Festival|Night Flight Plus]
Soundtrack
The fanfare music was done by Richard Audd.[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BkOq4UJME8s Concert Fanfare for Orchestra on YouTube]
References
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