I'm confused...some videos on my playlists say they're deleted but when I tapped on and activated them...they're not deleted...and the not-deleted videos say they ARE deleted when they end up looking like they're not...what's up with that???😕
By the same people who made the famous "I want my Mayo!" TV commercials, John and Faith Hubley. Their sons' voices are featured. Mark Hubley (of Marky Maypo fame) is the older boy's voice in the film. Wonderful -- Thank you for posting it.
Thank you,Barry.When I first saw this cartoon on a special in 1968 I knew the kids sounded familiar.I realized at the end of the cartoon it was from the Maypo adds I had seen in the early 1960s.
Silverstein's poem Where the Sidewalk Ends references the chalk-white arrows and the moonbird depicted in this film. Now I know the source of his inspiration for the poem. Thanks for posting this animated short film!
God this is just horrendous. My eyes are hurting just looking at this crap! My ears are bleeding from listening to this brat's ramblings. THIS won an ACADEMY AWARD!!! Really I HATE to see what other shorts lost that year. The last part with the bird was OK. Just GLAD this thing is only 10 min long.
@halfvader Yes, but UPA's animation was so stylized that it kept degrading year after year because there weren't less stylized works for people to relax and new staff to cut their teeth on. They encouraged filmmakers to regress into graphic abstraction when there were still improvements to be made on more literal styles. Their films regressed from stylistic representations to flat angles to excuse poor knowledge of draftsmanship with graphic zing. Just look at Gerald McBoing Boing on Planet Moo.
By the gods. This little child is incredebly annoying. Especially this horrid, horrid, voice. I might have enjoyed it otherwise, as I'm a bit of an animation junkie.
I guess kids will like this, like the squeaky voices etc. But from my point, it shows that animation was pretty much dead at this point if this one takes the best animated short film. Taking into account that Disney kicked ass already more than 25 years ago, it's desastrous. The 50s were way worse than the 30s and 40s.
You're comparing apples and oranges. This is an independent short, an artistic experiment. Totally in a different category from anything Disney or the other studios were doing.
