brewmasters
JERRY BECK
bio & contact
view posts by jerry
AMID AMIDI
bio & contact
view posts by amid
Stop, Look and Listen (1967)
by amid
April 23, 2007 7:18 am


A quick follow-up to my earlier post about the pixilation shorts of Chuck Menville and Len Janson: another one of their shorts is also posted on YouTube—Stop, Look and Listen. This film was nominated for an Oscar for Live-Action Short.

04/23/07  9:11am

Great to see this again!

04/23/07  9:33am
Floyd Norman says:

Brilliant stuff. It’s a shame we lost Chuck years ago.

In any case, I remember when these guys were still students, and use to visit the studio. Years later, when they became producers, I ended up working for them as a writer.

Real producers. Real Cartoonists. So few guys like Chuck and Len around anymore. This was when animation was fun.

04/23/07  12:23pm

You have given me a fond memory today, Amid!! I (vaguely) remember this being aired (as a short) on the (60s) “CBS Thursday Nite at the Movie” (or one of those weekday nite network-movie things!) I also remember this (pixilated human-driving) as a commercial (60s?) Anyone else remember that!?

Thankx again. These men had more patience than Job!!

04/23/07  1:38pm
Chris Padilla says:

Amid - These guys made a great pixilation commercial for Gulf in the 1960s, based on their “Stop, Look and Listen” short. Years ago, when I started compiling the retrospective for the Museum, I was in contact with one of the filmmakers but he was unable to locate the spot at the time. It’s such a classic that my program is incomplete without it. I hope to acquire it one day.

04/23/07  3:39pm
Cyber Fox says:

Nice! Too bad nobody in this generation will find stuff like this entertaining!

04/23/07  11:08pm
Zubby says:

I really enjoyed this. Thanks for posting it!

04/24/07  12:17pm
Andre says:

Wow! I first saw this film on PBS back in 1972. It blew me away and helped foster my love of animation even more. Thanks for bringing this treasure back into view.

04/24/07  5:33pm
J. Allen says:

Turner Classic Movies actually showed this short as filler in between movies last month!

04/24/07  5:57pm

This was great! Thanks!

04/24/07  10:05pm
dave says:

These guys made a great pixilation commercial for Gulf in the 1960s, based on their “Stop, Look and Listen� short.

That was one of my favorite commercials as a kid - I’d run into the run just to see it whenever it came on.

My grandfather thought it was great, too, and it inspired him to figure out how animation was made. Using his Kodak 8mm, we made a couple of short cartoons not long after!

04/25/07  4:21pm
GagaMan says:

How have I lived without ever seeing any of these films?

Write a comment.





Comment: