Fifteen years before Monty Python’s Flying Circus, Richie anticipated the animation of Terry Gilliam in this early 8mm film. He cut up Life magazine and animated the clippings through clever use of strings and editing. These “Four American Fables” offer up a slicing critique of gender and 1950s consumerism.
Donald Richie
Director
Smurfs: The Lost Village63%
Migration73%
Ice Age: The Great Egg-Scapade63%
Tinker Bell69%
Playdate61%
Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe69%
James and the Giant Peach66%
Tin Toy61%
Watership Down72%
Monster High: Escape from Skull Shores77%
Chicken Run68%
Barbie: Fairytopia68%
Curious George 2: Follow That Monkey!65%
Creature Comforts72%
The Grasshopper and the Ants64%
Minions & More 274%
The Amazing Maurice66%
Barbie Mariposa67%
The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh72%
Free Birds59%
