It might be another bit of baby-boomer nostalgia, but every now and then bits and pieces of this little gem (a "British film made with British labour") pop into my mind... I saw it, just by chance, on TV in the U.S. in the late '60s (I think 1968). As I remember it, they were showing classical and award-winning shorts each evening (or each week?) after the main movie feature. Anyway, all I know is I wish there had been VCRs back then! It was, I realized some years later, a forerunner of some of Terry Gilliam's animated Monty Python pieces. Delightful artwork and very wacky humor (or should I say "humour"), giving instructions on how to receive your very own mail-order do-it-yourself kit for making cartoons. The constantly changing kit contents, mailing requirements -- from detergent wrappers to soup mix packets to blank cheques to "one genuine Australian wombat" -- and escalating price, and increasingly complicated-to-incomprehensible mailing addresses became more and more outrageous as the film progressed. I was absolutely entranced by the creative absurdity of it all, and even jotted down some notes to make sure I would remember things. I have been wanting to see it again (and be able to show it to others) ever since then.
