Fantastic Animation Festival is a package film of animation

Animation

Animation is the rapid display of a sequence of images of 2-D or 3-D artwork or model positions in order to create an illusion of movement. The effect is an optical illusion of motion due to the phenomenon of persistence of vision, and can be created and demonstrated in several ways...

 segments, mostly to music, released in 1977. It was one of the earliest of the sort of collections typified by Computer Animation Festival and Spike and Mike's Sick and Twisted Festival of Animation.

Included in its 16 segments was the first national appearance of Will Vinton

Will Vinton

Will Vinton is an American director and producer of animated films. He was born in McMinnville, Oregon, near Portland. He has won an Oscar for his work, and several Emmy Awards and Clio Awards for the work of his studio.- Education :...

's Claymation (Closed Mondays

Closed Mondays

Closed Mondays is an 11-minute animated film using animated three-dimensional clay figures, cocreated by Will Vinton and Bob Gardiner in 1974...

), Bambi Meets Godzilla

Bambi Meets Godzilla

Bambi Meets Godzilla is the title of the cartoon created entirely by Marv Newland. Less than two minutes long, the film is a classic of animation—#38 in the book The 50 Greatest Cartoons ....

, and a Superman

Superman

Superman is a fictional comic book superhero appearing in publications by DC Comics, widely considered to be an American cultural icon. Created by American writer Jerry Siegel and Canadian-born American artist Joe Shuster in 1932 while both were living in Cleveland, Ohio, and sold to Detective...

 cartoon from the 1940s.

Segments

(The following are in alphabetical, rather than running order.)

• Introduction; voice-over ("Welcome to the world of animation") by Paul Frees
  Paul Frees
  Paul Frees was an American voice actor and character actor.-Biography:He was born Solomon Hersh Frees in Chicago...
  
  
• "Au Bout Du Fil Cradle" (Cat's Cradle); by Paul Driessen
  Paul Driessen
  Paul Driessen may refer to:*Paul Driessen , American author and lobbyist*Paul Driessen Dutch film director, animator and writer...
  
  
• "Bambi Meets Godzilla
  Bambi Meets Godzilla
  Bambi Meets Godzilla is the title of the cartoon created entirely by Marv Newland. Less than two minutes long, the film is a classic of animation—#38 in the book The 50 Greatest Cartoons ....
  
  "; by Marv Newland
  Marv Newland
  Marv Newland is a filmmaker who specializes in animation.Newland began a career making animated motion pictures in Los Angeles with the creation of the short Bambi Meets Godzilla...
  
  
• "Closed Mondays
  Closed Mondays
  Closed Mondays is an 11-minute animated film using animated three-dimensional clay figures, cocreated by Will Vinton and Bob Gardiner in 1974...
  
  "; Claymation by Will Vinton (Academy Award Winner for Best Animated Short Film)
• "Cosmic Cartoon"; Animated and directed by Eric Ladd and Steven Lisberger
  Steven Lisberger
  Steven M. Lisberger is an American film director, producer and writer famous for directing Tron in 1982.Lisberger was born in 1951 in New York City and grew up in Hazelton, Pennsylvania. He is a 1974 graduate of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts...
  
  
• "French Windows
  French Windows
  -Personnel:*Sonny Condell – guitar, vocals*Neil MacColl – electric & acoustic guitars*Simon Edwards – bass*Graham Henderson – synthesizer, organ, accordion, mandola, backing vocals*Roy Dodds – drums & percussion*Helen Boulding – backing vocalsProduction...
  
  "; rotoscope
  Rotoscope
  Rotoscoping is an animation technique in which animators trace over live-action film movement, frame by frame, for use in animated films. Originally, recorded live-action film images were projected onto a frosted glass panel and re-drawn by an animator...
  
   animation to Pink Floyd
  Pink Floyd
  Pink Floyd were an English rock band that achieved worldwide success with their progressive and psychedelic rock music. Their work is marked by the use of philosophical lyrics, sonic experimentation, innovative album art, and elaborate live shows. Pink Floyd are one of the most commercially...
  
  's "One of These Days"
• "Icarus
  Icarus
  -Space and astronomy:* Icarus , on the Moon* Icarus , a planetary science journal* 1566 Icarus, an asteroid* IKAROS, a interplanetary unmanned spacecraft...
  
  "; French clay animation
• "The Last Cartoon Man"; by Derek Lamb
  Derek Lamb
  Derek Lamb was an 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-winner Special Delivery, directed by John Weldon and Eunice Macaulay, and produced and scripted Eugene...
  
   & Jeffrey Hale
• "Mirror People"; by Kathy Rose
  Kathy Rose
  Katayoun Azarmi is an Iranian born, American designer, actress and business woman. She created the jewelry line, Kaviar Jewelry in 2002, now the eponymous, Kathy Rose for Roseark. Rose founded the retail boutique, Kaviar and Kind , now called Roseark. In 2004, Rose was a finalist for the FGI...
  
  
• "Moonshadow
  Moonshadow
  Moonshadow or Moon Shadow may refer to:* "Moon Shadow" , a song by Cat Stevens* "Moon Shadow", a song by English folk singer Kate Rusby from her 2005 album The Girl Who Couldn't Fly...
  
  "; Cat Stevens
  Cat Stevens
  Yusuf Islam , commonly known by his former stage name Cat Stevens, is an English singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, educator, philanthropist, and prominent convert to Islam....
  
  ' story of Teaser and the Firecat
  Teaser and the Firecat
  Teaser and the Firecat is an album released by Cat Stevens in 1971. It contains 10 songs including hits such as "Morning Has Broken," "Moonshadow," and "Peace Train." It is also the title of a children's book written and illustrated by Stevens...
  
  , narrated by Spike Milligan
  Spike Milligan
  Terence Alan Patrick Seán "Spike" Milligan Hon. KBE was a comedian, writer, musician, poet, playwright, soldier and actor. His early life was spent in India, where he was born, but the majority of his working life was spent in the United Kingdom. He became an Irish citizen in 1962 after the...
  
  
• "Mountain Music"; Claymation by Will Vinton
• "Oiseau de Nuit" ("Nightbird"); by Bernard Palacios
• "Room and Board"
• "A Short History of the Wheel"; by Loren Bowie
• "Superman and The Mechanical Monsters
  The Mechanical Monsters
  The Mechanical Monsters is the second of the seventeen animated Technicolor short films based upon the DC Comics character Superman. Produced by Fleischer Studios, the story features Superman battling a mad scientist with a small army of robots at his command...
  
  "; a 1941 Fleischer Studios
  Fleischer Studios
  Fleischer Studios, Inc., was an American corporation which originated as an Animation studio located at 1600 Broadway, New York City, New York...
  
   cartoon
• a 7Up commercial
• a Levi Strauss
  Levi Strauss
  Levi Strauss was a German-Jewish immigrant to the United States who founded the first company to manufacture blue jeans. His firm, Levi Strauss & Co., began in 1853 in San Francisco, California.-Origins:...
  
   Jeans
  Jeans
  Jeans are trousers made from denim. Some of the earliest American blue jeans were made by Jacob Davis, Calvin Rogers, and Levi Strauss in 1873. Starting in the 1950s, jeans, originally designed for cowboys, became popular among teenagers. Historic brands include Levi's, Lee, and Wrangler...
  
  commercial

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