As far back as I can remember going to animation festivals and finding those magical moments in animated shorts long before the abbreviation CGI was even considered, The Big Snit was a standout.
It was made in 1985 by a well known animator Bill Condie. According to Wiki, In 1994 it was voted #25 of the 50 Greatest Cartoons of all time by members of the animation field. (Wiki “Big Snit” page here.
Animated shorts were big for me many years ago, I was deeply impressed by Chuck Braverman’s Cream of the Beatles, a mostly stop motion and animated short made in 1974 and created in me a longtime desire to watch and make Braverman style shorts. I immediately started collecting and assembling movie images for a project that I never completed, but of course I was only ten years old and don’t want to feel to bad about it at all.
Back to the Big Snit.
It is great, it is very timely and best of all you can watch it right now delivered not from my website becasue I am having a hard time trying to create the code to do that, not from YouTube because they are cracking down on unauthorized content and have removed it, but from the very place that paid for it, The National Film Board of Canada. At 4 minutes and 49 seconds it is well worth your time.
