Remembrance of Things Pastel
Have you ever thought of something fleeting from your childhood, then spent hours trying to track it down? For some ungodly reason, I recalled these cool in-house promos for some theater chain (AMC?) which I remember seeing in the late ’70s/early ’80s. It was animated with these spacey optical effects showing a guy in a movie seat. A re-recorded version of Steely Dan’s “Everyone’s Gone to the Movies” played on the soundtrack (an odd choice considering the lyrics). Alas, I can find nothing on the web about this — not even a peep from a fellow nostalgic weblogger. Anybody else remember this?
That also led me to try and find info on a Saturday Morning TV show I used to watch during the same period — a short-lived live action/animated show with some generic sounding title about people who worked in an animation studio. Probably it was a crappy show, but at the time I loved it because I wanted to be an animator when I grew up and it was cool to see people (even silly, broadly drawn characters) who enjoyed doing that for a living.
Comments
"Drawing Power."
That took a LONG time to figure out. If I hadn't remembered that it came out the same year "Shirt Tales" did, I'd have never narrowed it down.
Posted by: Meyer | April 4, 2006 08:30 PM
Worse yet, it wasn't the same year. Close enough for google, though.
Posted by: Meyer | April 4, 2006 08:31 PM
What a horribly creepy song!!
Rockets past "Born in the USA" to the top of the "misused in advertising because no one really listens to the words" song list!
Posted by: Nancy | April 5, 2006 06:04 AM
Is the show about animators "The Duck Factory"? I think Jim Carrey was on it...
Posted by: Lara | April 5, 2006 07:03 AM
Could the kid's television show be that one that had Jim Carrey in it -- The Duck Factory?
Posted by: Christopher | April 5, 2006 08:57 AM
"Drawing Power" is correct! Thank you, Meyer. The cast had an older guy, a foxy black girl and a goofy guy (who wasn't Jim Carrey). Lara and Christopher are forgiven for confusing it with "The Duck Factory".
More here. Only 12 episodes!
And yes, Nancy, that is kind of a creepy song to use in a commercial. They only used the main chorus lyric, and the arrangement was real groovy as I recall.
Posted by: Matt | April 5, 2006 10:43 AM