All Slights Deserved

Um... the plan tonight was to fit in Rossellini's Germany Year Zero , but then I changed my mind. So instead here's one that, at ninety seconds, will surely be the shortest film of the year.  The title says everything. No, really; check it out on Youtube and other online sources. What else can one add? Very little, although it launched Marv Newland on quite a distinguished animation career and became regarded as a classic of sorts in cartoon circles. The irony is that, despite its brevity and crudeness of style, with today's technology nowadays you could put something together in a fraction of the time that looks infinitely more accomplished. There are basically two gags; the opening and closing credits account for about eighty percent of the running time and it's all over very abruptly. I suppose in an era before micro films it must have seemed quite innovative. Is it a clever critique of the spectacle-driven 'Cinema of Attractions'? No, it was a ...