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The World's Greatest Animation
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Distributed by Image Entertainment
currently out of print
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coming soon
(current entries are from British Animation Classics 2 and are placeholders only)
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Cafe Bar
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Same sparse and sketchy style as in her "M. Pascal" (British Animation Classics 1). Couple meets at the Cafe Bar, begin chatting. He daydreams himself a pilot, who crashes on her hat, makes his way through the jungle, and witness two dinosaur type creatures fighting. He runs away, climbs off her hat, skis down her tits and lands in the sugar bowl. Meanwhile she wanders the empty expanses, meets the Minotaur in a cave, he turns into a knight, slays the beast, and they dance. Some sort of comment on the battle of the sexes or differing interests and requirements in relationships or something, no doubt. |
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Alison de Vere
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Dreamland Express
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| Mixed-style animation showcase featuring trains. Long, but with an impressive array of different techniques. Set to modern string music and sound fx. Ends with a "peacful kingdom" tableau. Same guy who did Deadtime Stories (this disc and British Animation Classics 1). |
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David Anderson
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Oozat
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Live stop-motion of a guy at a pub with his buddies, trying to figure out which mask to wear to fit in. Tries to chat up sad woman using another mask. Gets masks confused. Goes to the bathroom. Percussive Africanesque soundtrack. Some sort of comment on the battle of the sexes or differing interests and requirements in relationships or something, no doubt. |
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Darren Walsh
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Abductees
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Mixed styles of drawn animation and treated archival footage and drawings of alien abduction experiences as told by the abductees in interviews and during hypnosis. Interesting treatment of provocative source material. Kinda makes you think, don’t it?
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Paul Vester
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Stressed
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| Impressionistic tableau of town gives way to expressionistic montage of stress monkeys battling their way through their day. Pencil and pastel scenes morph into each other. Ralph Steadmanesque characters at times. |
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Karen Kelly
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Deadsy
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| Companion piece to Door (British Animation Classics 1), but not as good. Different style - mostly somewhat abstract drawings of faces, with same tiresome dees doze narrator. Story about a skeleton mouse killer rock star who gets new female "sex-o-thingies" to make everybody like him. Guys fuck him constantly, only now he's Miss Universe. Deep. |
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David Anderson
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The Village
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Just down the road from The Hill Farm, I guess (British Animation Classics 1). Same style, same pastoral sense, same lack of plot. Except for the robberies, illicit sex, alcoholic ministers, jail breaks, roof-top fight and lovers' flight.
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Mark Baker
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The Sandman
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| Terrifying and elaborately gothic fairy tale about a boy trying to go to sleep in a scary house. A birdlike man - the Sandman - visits him in the night and steals his eyes to feed his little Sandman chicks. Quite grotesque and disturbing. Berry went on to work on Nightmare Before Christmas after this and it shows - very similar stop-motion puppetry on elaborately constructed and lit sets. |
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Paul Berry
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His Comedy
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| A retelling of Dante's Divine Comedy based on the famous Doré engravings mixed with modern scenes of war. Apparently, the animation was etched directly into color film stock. Crazy. Like "regular" animation isn't hard enough. |
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Paul Bush
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Manipulation
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| Meta-cartoon, not unlike Duck Amuck, in which an animated character fights with his creator. Mostly flat pencil, with some excursions into 3-D stop motion puppetry. Earlier (and simpler) work from the guy who went on to make Flat World (British Animation Awards 2) and Little Things (British Animation Awards 5) |
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Daniel Greaves
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Little Wolf
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Flat sketchy style about a wolf who, while chasing a sheep, becomes enamored of the moon, chases it, and eventually gets stuck up in the sky with it. Friends try to rescue him to no avail. Eventually, the moon sets and the sun rises and everybody lives happily ever after to a cheezy synthetic score. Whatever.
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Ari Vrombaut
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copyright 2008 Christopher Earl
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