Wild and Windy Wideo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jtLTS7T8cc

The Selfish Giant is an animated short film adaptation of the short story by Oscar Wilde. The story has symbolic religious themes and may be considered a work of allegory in Christian literature. The film was produced in 1971 by the Canadian-based Potterton Productions and by Pyramid Films. It earned a 44th Academy Award nomination in the Animated Short Subject category. The film first aired on Canadian television in November 1972 on CTV. It aired in the United States on CBS on March 28, 1973. – Wikipedia.

I was sitting around, wondering what to post today, when this animated special came to mind. Maybe because of the windy weather, maybe because of the seasonal change. I remember that in those days, animation seemed a pretty rare bit of television fare; we tended to watch whatever came on. It impressed me as deeply melancholy, not at all having the knockabout buoyancy of most children’s fare. Although it came out in the early 1970’s it strikes me as the last gasp 1960’s classical wistfulness, from its music to its cross-hatched, water-colored artwork.