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Here's a shout out to some of my favorite moments in animation:
- "Dance of the Hours" from Fantasia - some of the best physical comedy ever committed to film. Inspired.
- "Pink Elephants On Parade" - Beautifully surreal sequence from Dumbo, one that fascinated me so much as a child, I insisted on staying at the theater for a second viewing.
- "Eleanor Rigby" from Yellow Submarine - The melancholy song and the xeroxed photo animation combined to make me get all weepy, but in a really nice way. There was so much more to this wonderful film, but that sequence stuck with me the most.
- "Bear Necessities" from The Jungle Book - I was three years old, and this is the moment I fell in love, with animation, with movies, with music, basically with life. I remember it to this day.
- "Goodbye Blue Sky" from Pink Floyd The Wall - The Gerald Scarfe animation for this film was scary, poetic and perfectly suited to the somber, narcissistic narrative of this concept album on film. I was expecting to see more of this sort of serious visual treatment of music in films, but it never really happened.
- "This Is Halloween" - I knew that The Nightmare Before Christmas had me in its spell from moment one. This number still excites me.
These are obviously all tied to musical moments, and I'm not even considering full features (or even shorts) here. I could go on for days.
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