SupremePooper

SupremePooper t1_j6lhl4z wrote

Still one of the best half-hour cartoon "specials" ever to air on American network television.

There's still debates among animation fanatics whether the best narration is Nilsson's ( the Soundtrack album), Dustin Hoffman's ( aired for the original broadcast only) or Ringo Starr's ( the one on the commercial distribution). I have both the latter on VHS, & the Soundtrack, & Nilsson's is close to my heart, but Hoffman's is pretty terrific.

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SupremePooper t1_iye4zp3 wrote

The problem is that with current technology, this COULD very well be a photograph that has been run thru filters in a program like Painter or others to produce a very similar effect. I take your point and agree that while I truly admire this artist's technical skills, the very thing that would make it transcendent is the very thing that is missing, any variance from slavish representing of "reality" to reflect a deeper representation of the artist's personal impression. And that, only in light of the ease with which a digital capture of reality may be turned into a representation of a painting.

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