With a hat tip to Mark Newgarden‘s Facebook feed, here’s a short film made for the American Bicentennial. Funded by a Bicentennial Project Grant and produced by the United States Information Agency, the cartoon looks like its director may have viewed Yellow Submarine a few too many times.
The director is Vincent Collins. Here’s a page featuring other animation he did:
Philip Nel is Professor of English and Director of Kansas State University’s Program in Children’s Literature. His most recent books are Was the Cat in the Hat Black?: The Hidden Racism of Children's Literature and the Need for Diverse Books (2017), Crockett Johnson and Ruth Krauss: How an Unlikely Couple Found Love, Dodged the FBI, and Transformed Children's Literature (2012), Keywords for Children’s Literature (2011, co-edited with Lissa Paul), Tales for Little Rebels (2008, co-edited with Julia Mickenberg), The Annotated Cat (2007), and three volumes of Crockett Johnson's comic strip Barnaby (2013, 2014, 2016, all co-edited with Eric Reynolds).
1 Reply to “Have a Psychedelic 4th of July”
I’m english and have lived in France for the past 20 years. Each year I never fail to notice the difference between the pride and passion with which americans celebrate the 4th July and the ‘don’t care’ attitude with which the french (except the military and government) watch their national day go by.
I’m english and have lived in France for the past 20 years. Each year I never fail to notice the difference between the pride and passion with which americans celebrate the 4th July and the ‘don’t care’ attitude with which the french (except the military and government) watch their national day go by.