This looks beautiful. I love the art style of Eyvind Earle and his vibrant use of colors.

Beautiful artwork! Is there a companion film on Zinc? (”Come back, zinc, come baaaaaaack!”)

Did anyone notice how dorky the modern humans look compared to the ones from the ancient and prehistoric scenes with humans? :-)

Brett, that’s funny; I just watched that Simpsons episode a couple of nights ago. “You see the firing pin in your gun was made out of…yep…zinc.”
Can’t wait to watch this short tonight.

Carl Urbano’s grandson, Steve, also an animator, is one of my best friends, and the apple didn’t fall far from the tree. I doubt Steve has seen this film, but I’ve seen this kind of “vision” in Steve’s work, as if it’s in the Urbano DNA. I have seen this film-at least a dozen times over the years - because I’ve been directing industrials far too long, and I finally am going in the animated series and short direction that I always longed to. Carl made everything he directed an entertainment product, and what better way to fool someone into learning something, than showing them…..A CARTOON?!?!!!

So was everyone trying to be like Ward Kimball’s Science unit?

Not that that could have ever found a better template…..

Sutherland did do a “Your Friend, The Atom” knockoff called “A is for Atom” that’s been posted over at Archive.org for a long time.

This was just beautiful!

I hope they have a restored version of this film. It deserves to be seen that way. (Especially since the storybook/record version helps you to really appreciate the art in the film!)