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Not-for-Saturday Morning Cartoons

This edition presents five short animated films. In the humorous "Creature Comforts" by Nick Parks, clay-animation animals discuss and critique their lives in a zoo, lamenting the lack of space, fresh meat, and native climate. "Wake Up Call" presents director Pooh Kaye awakening and starting her day amidst a fantastic animated world of shifting shapes and washes of brilliant color. In "Photocopy Cha Cha" by Chel White, photocopied body parts are animated to the rhythm of a cha cha enhanced by a contemporary dance beat. Animators Christoff and Wolfgang Lauenstein create a spartan world hanging in space in "Balance," as several tall thin animated figures in numbered overcoats contend with a mysterious musical object on the floating platform where they co-exist. The final film, "Picnic," by Paul Vester, uses cheery cartoon figures and colors intercut with photos of murder scenes, tortures, and executions, as some unknown being or force invades the sunny, but menacing, cartoon world.

English
  • Originally Aired August 1, 1992
  • Runtime 25 minutes
  • Network PBS
  • Created July 22, 2021 by
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  • Modified July 22, 2021 by
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