Collected Shorts of Jan Svankmajer
Based on the story "Come again in the spring" by Richard Kennedy. A National Film Board of Canada production. Old Hark feeds the birds all winter. One day, a black-robed spectre materializes in his fields. Hark doesn't want to follow the Grim Reaper -- who will take care of the birds during the long winter if Hark is gone? But how can he avoid it?
The 28 cartoons in this collection were made by the Warner Bros. artists for the Army-Navy Screen Magazine during World War II, and were rarely--if ever--seen by the general public. The title character's name is an acronym for "Situation Normal: All Fouled Up" (substitute another "F-word" if you must), and most of his adventures are mildly didactic: Snafu ignores an Army regulation and/or …
If you ever played a video game back in the late '80s or early '90s you'll get a sense of what Computer Animation Festival has to offer. In this day and age of virtual reality and a more accomplished Nintendo and Playstation mentality, this DVD is strictly shareware and historical archive. Though it contains 19 of the "best" of computer animation shorts, almost everything in the volume feels da…