Fantastic Animation Festival

Fantastic Animation Festival is a package film of animation 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 were the first national appearance of Will Vinton's Claymation (Closed Mondays and Mountain Music), Bambi Meets Godzilla, and a previously seen Superman cartoon from the 1940s (The Mechanical Monsters).

Segments

(The following are in running order.)

Introduction; voice-over ("Welcome to the world of animation") by Paul Frees

French Windows; rotoscope animation to Pink Floyd's "One of These Days" by Ian Eames

Icarus; French 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

The Last Cartoon Man; by Derek Lamb & Jeffrey Hale

Au Bout Du Fil Cradle (Cat's Cradle); by Paul Driessen

Moonshadow; Cat Stevens' story of Teaser and the Firecat, narrated by Spike Milligan, by Charles Jenkins

Oiseau de Nuit (Nightbird); by Bernard Palacios

Room and Board; by Randy Cartwright

Bambi Meets Godzilla; by Marv Newland

Mountain Music; Claymation by Will Vinton

Light; by Jordan Belson

The Mechanical Monsters; a 1941 Fleischer Studios cartoon

Stranger; a 1971 Levi Strauss Jeans commercial; by Snazelle Films, narrated by Ken Nordine

Uncola; a 1975 7Up commercial; by Robert Abel and Associates

Mirror People; by Kathy Rose

Kick Me (film); by Robert Swarthe, a 1975 Best Animated Short Film nominee

Closed Mondays; Claymation by Will Vinton (Academy Award Winner for Best Animated Short Film)

All segments citation