Fantastic Animation Festival

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Fantastic Animation Festival
Directed byDean A. Berko (executive director)
Christopher Padilla (concept director)
Narrated byPaul Frees
Edited byRobert Leighton
Music byRichard M. Audd
Production
company
Voyage Productions
Distributed byCinema Shares International Distribution
Release date
  • May 27, 1977 (1977-05-27)
Running time
90 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

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).[1][2]

Summary[edit]

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).[3] The original running time was 107 minutes, which was later edited down to 90 minutes,[4] and then edited for television to 80 minutes.

Segments[edit]

(The following are in running order.)

See also[edit]

Notes[edit]

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.[14]

Soundtrack[edit]

The fanfare music was done by Richard Audd.[15]

References[edit]

  1. ^ DUBLAB & Cinefamily Present: Fantastic Animation Festival (1977) - dublab
  2. ^ Spike and Mike's Sick & Twisted Festival – Parkway Theater
  3. ^ TV Guide
  4. ^ The Michaigan Daily - Google Books (Oct. 27, 1979)
  5. ^ Fantastic Animation Festival Intro-YouTube
  6. ^ Fantastic Animation Festival theatrical trailer — 1977 on YouTube
  7. ^ "Cartoons Considered For An Academy Award 1973 -". cartoonresearch.com.
  8. ^ Oiseau de nuit (1975)-IMDB
  9. ^ "Cartoons Considered For An Academy Award 1974 -". cartoonresearch.com.
  10. ^ Oddball Films (2015-11-19). Oddball Films: Tunes and Toons: Animated Adventures in Musicland - Thur. Nov. 19th - 8PM. Oddball Films, 19 November 2015. Retrieved from Oddball Films
  11. ^ Jordan Belson: Sentience in Celluloid-The Culturium
  12. ^ Kathy Rose Collection|Oscars.org
  13. ^ "Cartoons Considered For An Academy Award 1975 -". cartoonresearch.com.
  14. ^ Night Flight - Fantastic Animation Festival|Night Flight Plus
  15. ^ Concert Fanfare for Orchestra on YouTube

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