About twenty years ago I was at a short-film festival. One feature was an animated piece that focused somewhat comically on pollution. Every emission source was depicted as a pair of buttocks that was either farting or defecating its pollutant into the air or water. Thus, a 747 was shown with a pair of asses on each wing; each car on the highway had either an ass for a tailpipe, or else the entire back end of the car was just a giant ass. Same with industrial smokestacks, and so on.
I have no idea of the title or artist, but I’m curious to find it again. Does this piece sound familiar to anyone?
Mods, feel free to boot me out of the thread if this is out of line, but maybe this can be a clearinghouse thread for obscure animated shorts.
The one I’m thinking of shows the lower half of a man’s face. His mouth is held open with clamps. It can be easily seen that he has a LOT of gold fillings. Two hands enter the picture (presumably the hands of a dentist). The hands can be seen administering Novocaine shots into the gums, while the voice of the presumed dentist is speaking to the patient. The dentist leaves the room, and tells the patient that he will be back when the Novocaine has had a chance to take effect.
Then, there is the sound of a window opening, and man climbing into the room. The man speaks, and as he speaks, he is placing small lumps of a clay-like substance next to each gold tooth and filling. When he’s finished with this, he attaches small wires into each lump. As he works, he is chatting to the patient, and basically recounting the plot of the Bogart film The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. Then he attaches all of the wires to a little detonator switch and sets off the explosive charges (yup, that’s what they turned out to be). He calmly removes all the lumps of gold that he’s just loosened (while the patient gurgles in agony), and slips out the window, just before the dentist returns.
I saw this a few times on The Comedy Channel in 1989-1990 (before Comedy Channel and Ha! network merged to form Comedy Central).
Anybody have any idea what this was called, and where I could see it again?
