A Story

May 1, 1987

0h 5m

★ 5.6

Overview

A young boy named Melvin and a purple television dinosaur named Ted have happy adventures that lead them into the clutches of Randy the Killer Clown and his Goon Squad.

Genres

Animation

Adventure

Production Companies

AI Sens Animation

Lulu Studios

Vancouver Society of Independent Animators (VSIA)

A Story Trailers

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Cast

The Narrator / The Goon Squad (voice) (as Nate Kamfer)

Ethan Kanfer

Melvin (voice) (as Sue Nichols)

Sue C. Nichols

Ted / The Goon Squad (voice)

Jeff Pidgeon

Randy / The Goon Squad (voice) (as Andy)

Andrew Stanton

The Goon Squad (voice) (as Broose)

Broose Johnson

Animation, also of a new order in the recent series of short works. Mostly on black space, the figures in blue perform a very compact and jewel-like opera in surreal form, again to Satie’s piano music. Ideally, the film should be projected on a 30" wide white card sitting on a music stand, center stage of a large auditorium or music hall, with sound from the projector piped into the big speaker system. The film is most effective this way, but can be shown normal-size also

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