On Saturday I felt naked and bereft…having left the house without my camera. Somehow I slogged through the day, but was mocked every step of the way. The light was just right everywhere I looked and I stumbled upon scene after scene that would have made perfect shots. But still. I managed to have some fun. I quite enjoyed myself at the Walker’s Family Day. We arrived to the auditorium just before the house lights went down, and were treated to two fabulous stop-action shorts, both from the seventies. First was “The Sand Castle“:
“On a sandy desert, a man made of sand constructs other sand creatures to help make a beautiful sand castle for themselves.”
The little man knows not how to whisper nor does he have an indoor voice of any kind, so he gave a running commentary to the entire audience…no matter how we tried to shush him. This continued on through the second short. Surprisingly I could only scare up one link with any information about it. I thought “Captain Silas” was brilliant:
“The economic relationship between two communities is humorously dramatized in the adventures of Captain Silas and his crew as they ply the popcorn waters between Truck Island and the Isle of Sugar in the animated world of peanuts.”
Bonus points for the beautiful dyed popcorn sea, and the little peanut people were cute too. Megaphone mouth was equally enthusiastic, or maybe more so…shouting “hey, that guy has a hat on!” and “look at the truck!” and “ooh, water”. After the two shorts I figured the other families had had enough of us, so we tried to quietly exit stage right. The next film looked creepy anyway. Something with a mime and a dancing “person” made of a cello, hat, gloves and shoes.