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An evening pause: Hat tip Jim Mallamace.
Tag: animation
One Minute Fly
An evening pause: Hat tip Jim Mallamace.
Leaving Home | A Tragicomedy
An evening pause: This does not go in exactly the direction you think it will.
Hat tip Jim Mallamace.
Oh Sheep!
An evening pause: Sometimes you just can’t win.
Hat tip Jim Mallamace.
Walt Disney’s MultiPlane Camera
An evening pause: This was filmed in 1957, and was almost certainly made to be shown as part of Disney’s weekly television show series for kids that began in 1954 and was one of television’s most popular shows in the 1960s. It describes one of the most important technical developments in animation, developed by Disney, until the arrival of computers.
To repeat: This was made for kids, yet it is thoughtful, entertaining, educational, and quite detailed in the information being conveyed. It treats its young audience with great respect and dignity.
I generally do not watch children’s shows today, but the few that I have seen have generally been quite shallow, overwrought, and would have insulted me, when I was a child. I don’t know if today’s kids would react the same today, because when I was a child Disney’s show was somewhat typical. I expected to be treated with respect. Today’s kids might not have that expectation.
Hat tip Wayne DeVette.
Michael Dudok de Wit – Father and Daughter
An evening pause: Hat tip Jim Mallamace, who was quite right when he said this nine minute animated film flies by in an instant.
The Amazing Paul Frees
An evening pause: You have heard his voice, many times. This highlight reel, suggested by Jim Mallamace, includes just a few, all amazingly different:
Disneyland’s Haunted Mansion
Boris Badenov
Pillsbury Doughboy
Lion and Mouse
Voyages Through Inner Space
Burgermeister Meisterburger
The Beatles Cartoon
Morocco Mole
Ludwig von Drake
He was a contemporary of Mel Blanc (most famous for providing the voices for Warner Brothers’ cartoons), was as good, but is far less well known.
Pearl Jam – Nothingman
An evening pause: The visuals come from the 2009 movie Up, and for me tell a much better story here.
Hat tip Wayne DeVette.
David Brancato – Of Mice and Moon
An evening pause: As long as there are children, there will always be dreams.
Hat tip Jim Mallamace.
Disney Pixar – Lou
An evening pause: Sentimental but right. And a nice way to end the week.
Hat tip Jim Mallamace.
The Duck Song
An evening pause: Words cannot do this one justice.
Avner Geller and Stevie Lewis – Defective Detective
An evening pause: Silly, short, and entertaining.
Hat tip Jim Mallamace.
Kealan O’Rourke – The Boy In The Bubble
An evening pause: Fitting for today. And yes, that is Alan Rickman narrating.
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Hat tip Jim Mallamace.
Alyce Tzue – Soar
An evening pause: The music is Monody by Christian Büttner, known generally as TheFatRat. The singer is Laura Brehm.
Hat tip Wayne DeVette.
Cornillon Quentin – Print Your Guy
An evening pause: Hat tip Jim Mallamace, who asks, “Ok guys, what would be your description on the order form?”
Slimtime
An evening pause: Another short animated film, hat tip to Jim Mallamace.
Steve Cutts – This is our world
An evening pause: This animation expresses well what I often feel and think, as someone who does not use a “smart” phone.
Hat tip Jim Mallamace, who sent it from his own smart phone, which left him “not feeling very high and mighty.”
Ginger Cat vs The Paper Army
An evening pause: Time for some silliness, which I suppose is also appropriate for a Friday the thirteenth.
Hat tip Jim Mallamace.
When the Day Breaks
An evening pause: A short animation that goes in unexpected directions.
Hat tip Wayne DeVette.
Russ Roberts – It’s a Wonderful Loaf
An evening pause:
We know there’s order built into the fabric of the world
Of nature. Flocks of geese! Schools of fish! And every boy and girl
Delights in how the stars shine down in all their constellations
And the planets stay on track and keep the most sublime relations
With each other. Order’s everywhere. Yet we humans too create it
It emerges. No one intends it. No one has to orchestrate it.
It’s the product of our actions but no single mind’s designed it
There’s magic without wizards if you just know how to find it
I suspect that readers of Behind the Black will know the answer to this mystery.
Hat tip Edward Thelen.