Word: godzillas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...work by American animators and the National Film Board of Canada. The Festival includes films displaying a number of different animation techniques, from the computer animations of Pixar and Apple Computer to the claymation techniques of Will ("The California Raisins") Vinton. As usual, Marv Newland's classic Bambi Meets Godzilla returns along with this year's Festival: This year also highlights the work of Max Fleischer, one of the pioneers of the animation form...
Modern horror movies also play on the fears of the society that produces them, King said. "I don't think its any coincidence that the first of radioactive movies should come out of Japan," he said referring to Godzilla, a film whose monster was awakened by radioactive bomb tests...
...same kind of people who collect National Geographic magazines and put them on their bookshelves," says Atlas' founder and president, Peter Edwards. Another small but imaginative firm, Rhino Video, has done well with compilations of old TV clips, sensational movie trailers and oddball cartoons like Bambi Meets Godzilla. Notes Rhino President Richard Foos: "There is an incredible fascination among certain people with the odd and bizarre...
...doubt that anyone worries about a genetic experiment in the lab gone awry with 50-ft. white mice rampaging godzilla-like through our cities, or about cancer genes that go wild, communicating the disease and wiping out huge segments of the population. Such things simply are not in the realm of possiblity in terms of genetic research...
VISIONS of godzilla-sized mutant mice rampaging through America's cities may sound ridiculous, but it is irrational fears such as this that the staff falls prey to. The staff would halt scientists from using genetically-engineered animals until a morality discussion between Congress and the general public could take place. They forget that this would delay research into our deadliest disease, cancer, and the discovery of a cure that could save many lives...