1h 10min | Animation, Family, Fantasy | 19 March 1968 | Color, ws
Directors: Al Kilgore, Chuck McCann
Stars: Chuck McCann, Hetty Galen, Ruth Bailew.
Watched online, faded print, fs.
Empty Soundtracks, but songs are sung.
Notice the eyes in the poster; this is anime. The '68 premiere was in Japan, and no release in US until '71.
Derivative of The Daydreamer ('66), and I gave that a 5.
Here we get a bit of The Red Shoes and The Little Matchgirl. Otherwise it's about the child HCA and his flying (ala Mary Poppins, but with 2 umbrellas) "uncle" Oley, trying to grant HCA's wish to see the opera coming to his smallish home town.
I found this very slow and difficult for me to sustain interest. I seldom looked at the screen because the image was faded an apparently cropped, and the style of animation is far from my golden age of Looney Tunes preferences.
Hal Roach Studios & more, distr. UA, dir. Kilgore & McCann; 5
