The always erudite Christopher Taylor posted a link to City Rag, where the top fifty cartoons (as voted by 1,000 members of the animation industry in 1994) are linked.
Here is one of my favorites from 1988, The Cat Came Back.
Posted by: Pupster | December 28, 2006
The Cat Came Back
Posted in Movies, Stuff I Like
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Should have won in 1988 for “Animated Short Song Most Likely to Get Stuck in Your Head.” My wife and sang that for years afterward.
By: geoff on December 28, 2006
at 3:49 pm
Also nice to see “The Big Snit” on the list - another than stuck with me over the years. “You’re always shaking your eyes!!”
Does anybody know where to find a copy of an old stop-animation film called something like “Electric Disco Chicken?” This guy brings home his groceries, takes out a chicken from the bag, finds a power cord coming out of the chicken, and then plugs it in. Disco hilarity ensues.
I can’t find it anywhere on YouTube.
By: geoff on December 28, 2006
at 6:35 pm
geoff, You are probably refering to my brother Robert Goodness’ film “The Electric Disco Chicken” which was shown at the Cannes Film Festival in 1981 and at several other festivals in the United States and Canada. The film was never commercially released and altough it was shown on national television, there are no copies available for purchase. Unfortunately my brother died at the age of 44 in 1992. Some of his other films included “The Garden of Sweet Rememberance” and “The Quinsigamond River”.
Perhaps you saw Chicken at the Boston Si-Fi convention?
Best wishes, Paul Goodness
By: Paul Goodness on March 12, 2007
at 12:49 am
Perhaps you saw Chicken at the Boston Si-Fi convention?
Yes, that’s exactly right - at Boskone! I think it was at the Sheraton that year.
Very sorry to hear about your brother. Was that him in the video?
It’s a shame that’s not available somehow - it cracks me up 25 years later. It was a brilliantly funny short.
By: geoff on March 12, 2007
at 4:14 am
Thank you geoff.
Yes that was Bob Goodness in the film. I agree that it was a classic. It was the first and the best in my opinion. Others tried to copy the idea, but missed the mark. It is interesting as you say that even after 25 years since it was last publicly shown that so many still recall it. Bob had said that the humor probably lay in the fact that someone actually spent the time to make the film. I think it was more than that.
When he premiered his “Garden of Sweet Rememberances” film at the Boston Film and Vidio it also struck a universal yet individual cord with the viewers. “Bob didn’t make no junk.”
I am so very glad that you and so many other viewers of his films have continued with your interests in independent visual artists and their works.
By: Paul Goodness on March 14, 2007
at 10:06 pm
