# long shot, looking for a 1970s-1980s animation short **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 28, 2009, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/long-shot-looking-for-a-1970s-1980s-animation-short/497892 "2009-05-28T02:33:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![GameHat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ed655f/32.png) [@GameHat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GameHat)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2009, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/long-shot-looking-for-a-1970s-1980s-animation-short/497892/1 "2009-05-28T02:33:43Z")
Help me find an animation short from my childhood! I’m pretty sure it would have been on either [Sesame Street](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sesame_street) or [Pinwheel](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinwheel_(TV_series)), as those were the shows I was watching from 1984-1987. That’s the time period during which I saw it, and I’m sure I saw it more than once. The animation is abstract and surreal. The background is black. I seem to remember the animated objects being made of thread or yarn. All I remember - the animation starts from a black background. A sun, made from yarn or thread, is formed early. The animation ends with the “sun” being unraveled, leaving only the black background. I think I remember it being kind of a farm scene. I think I remember an animal with horns being constructed, again from thread or yarn. I always felt a little sad at the end, becuase the world was unmade, the last being the sun unmade. Any ideas? ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2009, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/long-shot-looking-for-a-1970s-1980s-animation-short/497892/2 "2009-05-28T16:37:16Z")
It sounds familiar enough that I want to say there were several shorts like this. I watched a lot of Pinwheel and Sesame Street as a small child, too. ---
**Author:** ![WorkInProgress](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@WorkInProgress](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WorkInProgress)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2009, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/long-shot-looking-for-a-1970s-1980s-animation-short/497892/3 "2009-05-28T18:23:18Z")
Was it Simon? > **[Simon in the Land of Chalk Drawings](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_in_the_Land_of_Chalk_Drawings)** > > Simon in the Land of Chalk Drawings is a British children's animated series about the adventures of a young boy named Simon, who has a magic blackboard. Things that Simon draws on the chalkboard become real in the Land of Chalk Drawings, which Simon can enter by climbing over a fence near his home with a ladder. The stories often revolve around the unintended effects that Simon's drawings have on the Land of Chalk Drawings, such as when an upset Simon draws a picture of his angry self, which g... ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2009, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/long-shot-looking-for-a-1970s-1980s-animation-short/497892/4 "2009-05-28T19:58:42Z")
> [@WorkInProgress](#): > > Was it Simon? > > [Simon in the Land of Chalk Drawings - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_in_the_Land_of_Chalk_Drawings) And here are stills and the opening theme song from that show: [Simon](http://simontdd.tripod.com/SimonLOCD/simon.html) ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Q](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/898d66/32.png) [@Johnny\_Q](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Q)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2009, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/long-shot-looking-for-a-1970s-1980s-animation-short/497892/5 "2009-05-28T21:13:28Z")
Is that the one Mike Myers parodied on SNL?