Sally Cruikshank
Historia
Sarah "Sally" Cruikshank (born June 1949) is an American cartoonist and animator whose work includes animation for the Children's Television Workshop program Sesame Street, and whose short "Quasi at the Quackadero" (1975) was inducted into the United States National Film Registry.
Director
Spectacle is proud to present HEAD SPACE, a showcase of animated works exploring dimensions both interior and outlying. Featuring an extremely talented and creative group working in a diverse array of styles, the shorts wander through strange and sometimes sketchy landscapes, including alternate-universe appliance stores, the ramblings of Charles Manson, environmental catastrophes in the Dutch style of painting, and a houseplant’s musings. Some, like Sally Cruikshank’s Make Me Psychic, are established classics; others feature newer animators working in looping GIF format, presented away from the small screen’s momentary pleasures to fully appreciate the art that it is. Occasionally gross, often beautiful, and always interesting, HEAD SPACE is a sampler of the thoughts happening inside and out of each frame.
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I heard this song on Bob Dylan's Theme Time Radio Show and just had to animate to it. The lyrics were a bit odd when I really listened to them, but the rhythm was a treat. - Sally Cruikshank
Animation
I heard this song on Bob Dylan's Theme Time Radio Show and just had to animate to it. The lyrics were a bit odd when I really listened to them, but the rhythm was a treat. - Sally Cruikshank
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The power of imagination.
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Day in the life of a shoe salesman.
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A lizard's curiosity runs wild.
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Everybody who's anyone is invited to a swanky soirée.
Main Title Designer
Mark y Jessie Bannister son un feliz matrimonio de Los Ángeles. Ambos tienen unos buenos puestos de trabajo y acaban de adquirir una confortable casa, situada en un lujoso barrio. Su apacible existencia, en cambio, se verá alterada cuando Mark abre el correo y ve con estupor que su primo Fred y su esposa Bernice tienen pensado ir a pasar unas vacaciones con ellos. Fred solía ser un tipo bastante salvaje y ahora que se encuentra sin trabajo carece de autoestima, a causa del carácter dominante de su mujer. Con la llegada de sus parientes la vida de ensueño de Mark y Jessie se convierte en una terrible pesadilla.
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Happiness, sadness, love, and surprise manifest themselves in various ways.
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An animated film compiled by David Ehrlich consisting of 27 animators from different countries all explaining themselves through their animation.
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Randy Bodek (Patrick Dempsey) es un joven estudiante que pasa por una "mala racha" al comienzo de sus vacaciones veraniegas. Ha acabado el curso con malas notas y, para colmo, su novia decide dejarle porque no se atreve a comunicarle a sus padres que vive con ella. Ante la escasa confianza en la disposición a estudiar de su hijo, el padre de Randy, rehusa pagarle la matrícula para el próximo curso . Para conseguir dinero, acepta un empleo de repartidor en "Señor Pizza", ataviado con un ridículo uniforme, que incluye un sombrerito mexicano y un mostacho postizo, con lo que consigue no mas de 4,8 dólares/hora. Pero todo cambia, cuando conoce a una bella y madura mujer: Alex Barnett (Barbara Carrera, "Nunca digas nunca jamás"). Rápidamente, Randy, se convierte en "el doctor del amor de Beverly Hills"
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Demonstrates how one part of an object can affect the whole thing.
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A frog is driving his alligator-shaped car when he is stopped by a shapely she-frog who steps into the road. She tells him that her house is haunted, so he goes along to assist.
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The joy of flying.
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A trio of picture books explain the structure of stories.
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A spoof of "The In Crowd."
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Candy commercial. With lyrics like, "chewy, delicious, bigger than your finger," or was it "bigger than you figure"? Anyway, I designed and directed this commercial right after Ruthless People. A number of very talented animators working at Playhouse Pictures did the animation. The product never took off-- it was like chewing gum, but you swallowed it.
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Jonathan Switcher es un joven artista en busca de su vocación. Un día ve un maniquí en el escaparate de un centro comercial que había creado antes en uno de sus trabajos y, tras conseguir empleo en esa tienda, descubre que en realidad es una mujer del antiguo Egipto que ha cobrado vida. Su belleza, amor e imaginación hacen que se convierta para él en motivo de inspiración para el diseño de los escaparates del negocio. Ante su éxito, unos rivales del gremio pretenderán acabar con él con malas artes.
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Sam Stone, un magnate de la confección, odia a su esposa y justamente el día que toma la determinación de matarla recibe una llamada telefónica en la que le comunican que Bárbara ha sido secuestrada. Los culpables, unos raptores novatos y nerviosos, sólo pretenden conseguir algo del dinero que Stone ha ganado con el invento de la minifalda elástica. Al pedir el rescate al marido, éste se niega a pagar, con lo que despierta las iras de la víctima y le obliga a planificar el contraataque.
Animation
The bizarre adventures of the cartoon character Foska, drawn by 22 animators working in collaboration. Each animator worked on his or her own sequence only and did not know what action preceded or followed his or her sequence, except that the first drawing of a sequence is the last drawing from the previous sequence.
Herself
A PBS documentary from around 1982 about San Francisco bay area animators. It features Marcy Page, Jeff Hale, Sally Cruikshank, Bud Luckey, Rudy Zamora, John Korty, Vince Collins, Drew Takahashi
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Created and produced as a sample of the proposed (never realized) animated feature. "It was like a 30's musical in which Anita left the alligator farm to pursue her dream of opening the ultimate tropical nightclub. I had a script and storyboard [...] Nightclub of the future with live alligators and a tipsy train that serves drinks." -SC
Anita
Anita the duck buys a psychic device at a novelty store in an alternate universe and creates mayhem at a crazy party.
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Anita the duck buys a psychic device at a novelty store in an alternate universe and creates mayhem at a crazy party.
Various voices
This surreal cartoon follows Quasi, Anita and their pet robot Rollo to the Quackadero, a futuristic amusement park where thoughts, time, dreams and memories become playthings for the weird and wacky clientele.
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This surreal cartoon follows Quasi, Anita and their pet robot Rollo to the Quackadero, a futuristic amusement park where thoughts, time, dreams and memories become playthings for the weird and wacky clientele.
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An early short by Sally Cruikshank. Running through various anthropomorphized creatures, this short lack a real sense of narrative.
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An early short film by Sally Cruikshank.
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"I made this film when I went to the San Francisco Art Institute, after graduating from Smith a semester early. It was my reaction to California. "Sweeping the Clouds Away" is sung by Charles "Buddy" Rodgers, who was Mary Pickford's husband. huh? who? The doctored photo was of an astronaut on the moon-- I thought he looked like a duck and made him one. From 1971... yikes!"
