In this Installment of Abominable Animations FYB is Delighted to Bring You Controversial, Gory, and Disturbing Anti Nuclear Animated British Film A Short Vision. The Film was Written and Directed by Joan and Peter Foldes in 1956, and was Inspired by one of Peter’s Poems. A Short Vision Depicts the Destruction of the Earth, and the Brutal Demise of Humanity at the Hands of a Menacing Nuclear Bomb (Referred Only as It in the Film).
It all started when in 1952, the First Successful Detonation of a Hydrogen Bomb that was over 450 times as Powerful as the Bomb America Dropped on Nagasaki in World War 2. This Horrific Potential for Destruction Terrified Peter and They Two began working on a Short Cartoon in Their Kitchen, and in 1956 A Short Vision was Aired on the Popular American Television Talk Show The Ed Sullivan Show.
To His Credit Sullivan tried to Prepare the Audience for the Horror of the Film, But His Introduction Fell Short of Warning Viewers that They were about to watch an Interpretation of a Nuclear Holocaust, complete with Bloody, Melting Faces:
“Just last week you read about the H-bomb being dropped. Now two great English Writers, two very imaginative writers-I’m gonna tell you if you have youngsters in the living room tell them not to be alarmed at this ’cause it’s a fantasy, the whole thing is animated-but two English writers, Joan and Peter Foldes, wrote a thing which they called A Short Vision in which they wondered what might happen to the animal population of the world if an H-Bamb were dropped. It’s produced by George K. Authur and I’d like you to see it. It is grim, but I think we can all stand it to realize that in war there is no winner.”
A Short Vision garnered a great deal of Praise from Audiences and Critics, many were Angry and Disturbed by such Graphic Depictions of the Nuclear Apocalypse. Undeterred by the Backlash, Foldes continued Producing Groundbreaking, Socially Conscious Animation throughout His Career.
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Presented By Les Sober