the audience applauded

Brilliant and touching

an ambitious but ultimately ineffective debut endeavor.

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Pros: "Kick Me", "Closed Mondays", "French Windows" (mainly Pink Floyd), "Light", "Mountain Music", "Mirror People", bits of "Room and Board", already seen "Bambi Meets Godzilla", "Cat's Cradle" and "Mechanical Monsters" Cons: "A Short History of the Wheel", bits of "Cosmic Cartoon" (nudity mostly), "Oiseau de nuit"

This film was released on VHS back in 1978 by Media-Home Entertainment, Inc. I know this to be true because I have the videocassette in hand and enjoy it often. Despite what others have posted about this film never being legally released, this is an untruth. The tape/film runs for approx 91 minutes and has excellent 2 channel audio yet this release was before Dolby was used on VHS cassettes. I first saw this film at a midnight movie in downtown Minneapolis. Every time the theater ran this film it was a gigantic party. People brought their own methods of enjoyment and relaxation with them to the theater and everyone got along and enjoyed it. The good old days when people were allowed to enjoy themselves in a public forum without being hassled by others. The one film of the clay people really sticks out in my mind as well as the Closed Mondays segment. So many people want this film that I just don't understand why it has not been re-released. Perhaps there are too many artists and musicians rights involved as to work out all the legal agreements necessary to release it again.

I was about 5 when I first saw this movie it was on video. Being 5 and watching the tripped out animation of the 70's, some set to Pink Floyd was actually terrifying to me, but I kept watching this video repeatedly like many 5 years old like to do with videos. I couldn't even watch it by myself I made my brother stay with me with lights on and door open. I liked being scared and tried to figure the cartoons out. They didn't make sense to me and I think that is why it frightened me to watch. It still haunts, but intrigues me. I am a fan, but do not recommend young children to watch, because it is hard to understand at such a young age. I think you need to be around 10 to understand that it is art, and that some cartoons have a meaning, and some don't.

I was twelve years old when I saw this compilation of shorts and it confirmed for me that animation could be a vehicle for both art and commentary. I had seen Lenny Bruce's "Thank You Masked Man", Bakshi's "Fritz the Cat" and "Heavy Traffic" and the classic "Savage Planet" or "La Planete sauvage" as it was originally released, so I was hungry for the proliferation of this genre beyond the mass media of Scooby-Do. Unfortunately the seventies would be the high water mark for animation, and while talented artist such as Bill Plympton and Nick Park do their best to break into the main stream, animation is still dominated by Disney and their endless string of banal feature films. Given the quality of the last non-Disney feature release Don Bluth's "Titan A.E.", we must pin all our hopes on the Cartoon Network. With any luck, the crazy vision of "Courage the Cowardly Dog", "Sponge Bob", and the often brilliant "Power Puff Girls" and "Dexter's Laboratory" will once again bring us animated features that match up to classics represented in the "Fantastic Animation Festival".