MATURE CONTENT AND LANGUAGE
Aaron Kyle Brushart’s film is a glorious insult to good old American hick bigotry. The hand-drawn characters and the overall sketchy style of this perfectly timed film had me laughing pretty much throughout. It must have been fun to shoot that burger too! Just like in a commercial!
Here’s the filmmaker’s website, http://ahaltintransmission.com.
Ray Harryhausen, the great stop-motion animator of dinosaurs, sea creatures and dancing skeletons made this version of Hansel and Gretel in 1951. The dolls are a bit off-putting if I must be honest about it. But it’s got some great movement and settings. This is one of a series of films he made for children after World War II.
From Apache Pictures
A funny cartoon by Levni Yilman.
Cartoonist Robert Crumb gets interviewed by a Los Angeles Times writer and talks about his living in France and his hatred for the pervasive corporate mono-culture that Americans seem unaware of. He can’t stand it and chooses to live outside of it.
Really good perspective.
In a culture where you’ve got a Supreme Court actually giving corporate entities the rights of individual human beings, you’ve got total corporate control of every single living man, woman and child. You can see this complete robotic control on very prominent and horrific display in the current president of the United States. He a corporate hologram who moves only when commanded to by his boardroom overseers. The entire country is oriented around cop/lawyer shows on television which are specifically designed to make you feel close and personal with the state/corporate stooges who work for police departments and gleefully lay disadvantaged people out on their faces on subway platforms and slaughter them with bullets fired straight into their backs from six inches away. ‘The Mentalist’ is probably the supreme example of this attempt to make the corporate/police control mechanism seem odd and quirky and just a little cutely but intelligently eccentric. ‘Medium’ is another. The individual with oddball abilities or perceptions is entirely consumed and controlled by the state apparatus. All cop shows are meant to make as many viewers as possible feel completely comfortable being visited by and talking to the police. That is the entire truth of American television. It’s message is simply this: when we come knocking, open the door.
That is the true subtext of every single show ever produced by American broadcasting companies.
R. Crumb is totally right.
Meg Park, a final year student at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, made this short film that reminds me of how to be a kid. Fantastic animation of the characters and their movements.
Via Cartoon Brew
The National Film Board of Canada produced this cartoon adaptation of a story by E.B. White. He did the narration too! It’s a far-fetched tale of logical and methodical silliness that ends in an eruption of accidental death and mayhem. Simply marvelous.
I found this at Your Daily Cartoon
From New Zealand comes this completely nonsensical cartoon about a man who stops in for a drink at a saloon and goes on a wild horse ride that has him seeing visions of the Devil. Directed and animated by Bob Stenhouse in 1985.
Head is an Argentinian animation by Matias Vigliano and Dante Zaballa. Lots of things going on at the same time.
Here’s an Oscar-winning short from Disney that is based on a popular children’s book, The Story of Ferdinand, by Munro Leaf with illustrations by Robert Lawson. Ferdinand the bull would much rather sit under his favorite tree smelling the flowers than do anything serious. But he gets caught up in the bull-fighting business and hilarity ensues when he tries to enjoy his favorite pastime in the ring.
Noteboek is one of those films that illustrate what personal filmmaking is. It’s an artist’s hand-made, direct expression. Evelien Lohbeck is the performer and animator in this little gem. There’s something a little Chaplin-like in her clever tricks with drawings and food. I love the part where she’s reflected in the drawing in her notebook. This is really excellent and gently humorous work.
Betty Boop stars as Cinderella in this 1934 cartoon from Fleischer Studios. This was Betty Boop’s only appearance in color.
