“The Cybernetic Grandma”, by Jiri Trnka.(with Part 2 here.) I am beginning to suspect that the former Czechoslovakia engaged in a widespread social program of converting excess vowels to beautiful animation.

I was inspired to look up Trnka after reading about the very first Hobbit movie, a 12-minute exploitation cut-out cartoon with one dwarf and a princess in it*… but that was a shortened, zero-budget version of what should have been a feature animated by this guy.

Had it been made, I wonder if it could have changed the world. Height of the Cold War, dawn of Tolkien-mania, and an American-Czech vision comes out looking like this - stop motion, more real than a dream.

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_{*written & directed by the same guy who wrote How to Care for the Neurotic Dog, a book I loved as a youth.}

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