''Fantastic Animation Festival'' is a package film of animation segments, set mostly to music and released in theaters in 1977. It was one of the earliest of the sort of collections typified by Computer Animation Festival and Spike and Mike's Festival of Animation (the co-founders of the latter, formerly known as Festival of Animation, send out flyers of ''Fantastic Animation Festival'').Help! I Love Watching Animated Shorts, Animation World Network
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Summary

Included in its original form of 16 segments were the first national appearance of

Will Vinton William Gale Vinton (November 17, 1947 – October 4, 2018) was an American animator and filmmaker. Vinton was best known for his Claymation work, alongside creating iconic characters such as The California Raisins. He won an Academy Awards, Os ...

's Claymation (''Closed Mondays'' and ''Mountain Music''), ''Bambi Meets Godzilla'',

Cat Stevens Yusuf Islam (born Steven Demetre Georgiou; ), commonly known by his stage names Cat Stevens, Yusuf, and Yusuf / Cat Stevens, is a British singer-songwriter and musician. He has sold more than 100 million records and has more than two billion st ...

' animated promo for his song " Moonshadow" that was shown at his early concerts, and a previously seen

Max Fleischer Max Fleischer (born Majer Fleischer ; July 19, 1883 – September 11, 1972) was an American animator and studio owner. Born in Kraków, in Austrian Poland, Fleischer immigrated to the United States where he became a pioneer in the development ...

Superman cartoon from the 1940s (''The Mechanical Monsters''). The original running time was 107 minutes, which was later edited down to 90 minutes, and then edited for television to 80 minutes.

Segments

(The following are in running order.) *"Welcome to the world of animation" introduction; voice-over by

Paul Frees Solomon Hersh Frees (June 22, 1920November 2, 1986), better known as Paul Frees, was an American actor, comedian, impressionist, and vaudevillian. He is known for his work on Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Walter Lantz, Rankin/Bass and Walt Disney the ...

, who also narrated the trailer *''French Windows'', the

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animation to

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's " One of These Days" by Ian Eames *''Icarus'', a 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 Steven M. Lisberger (born April 24, 1951) is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter. He is best known for writing and directing the 1982 film ''Tron''. Early life and education Lisberger was born in 1951 in New York City and gre ...

*''The Last Cartoon Man'', by

Derek Lamb Derek Reginald Lamb (20 June 1936 – 5 November 2005) was a British animation filmmaker and producer. While serving as executive producer of the National Film Board of Canada's English Animation Studio from 1976 to 1982, he produced the Oscar-win ...

& Jeffrey Hale *''Au Bout Du Fil Cradle'' (''Cat's Cradle''), by Paul Driessen (

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) *'' Moonshadow'',

' story of '' Teaser and the Firecat'', narrated by

Spike Milligan Terence Alan "Spike" Milligan (16 April 1918 – 27 February 2002) was an Irish comedian, writer, musician, poet, playwright and actor. The son of an English mother and Irish father, he was born in British Raj, British India, where he spent his ...

, by Charles Jenkins *''Oiseau de Nuit'' (''Nightbird''), by Bernard Palacios *''Room and Board'', by Randy Cartwright *'' Bambi Meets Godzilla'', by

Marv Newland Marv Newland (March 9, 1947) is an American-Canadian filmmaker, specialized in animation. Career Newland began a career making animated motion pictures in Los Angeles, California, Los Angeles with the creation of the short ''Bambi Meets Godzilla ...

*'' Mountain Music'', Claymation by

*''Light'', by

Jordan Belson Jordan Belson (June 6, 1926 – September 6, 2011) was an American artist and abstract cinematic filmmaker who created nonobjective, often spiritually oriented, abstract films spanning six decades. Biography Belson was born in Chicago, Illinois. ...

*'' The Mechanical Monsters'', a

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1941

Fleischer Studios Fleischer Studios () was an American animation studio founded in 1929 by brothers Max and Dave Fleischer, who ran the pioneering company from its inception until its acquisition by Paramount Pictures in 1942, the parent company and the distri ...

cartoon *''Stranger'', a 1971 Levi Strauss

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commercial by Snazelle Films, narrated by

Ken Nordine Ken Nordine (April 13, 1920 – February 16, 2019) was an American voice-over and recording artist, best known for his series of Word Jazz, word jazz albums. His deep, resonant voice has also been featured in many advertising, commercial advertis ...

*''Uncola'', a 1975 7Up commercial by Robert Abel and Associates *''Mirror People'', by Kathy Rose *'' 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)

Notes

The 1941

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-nominated '' Superman (AKA The Mad Scientist)'' was featured on the TV version while the episode ended with ''Mirror People'' instead of ''Closed Mondays''.

Soundtrack

The fanfare music was done by Richard Audd.Concert Fanfare for Orchestra on YouTube
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References

External links

*{{IMDb title, 0241436
''Fantastic Animation Festival''
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