Destroy All Podcasts DX Episode 103 - Street of Crocodiles
Hosts: Jeremy, Star
This is about creepy baby-headed people, screws in boxes, and out of control puppets.
This is the first edition of our month devoted to MTV animation!
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Here's the Quay brothers speaking at a graduate school.
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3 comments postedThis is not Streets of Fire.
this is not a street fighter.. well i think so this episode seems me good.
Prior to Liquid Television, the best anyone had with MTV doing animation was in the form of 10 second or more ID's made to promote the channel in amusing ways. They had helped keep a number of animators at work in an era when animation, especially on TV was a dead medium until the sudden boom that took place in the late 80's/early 90's, no doubt thanks to films like Roger Rabbit, Disney's Little Mermaid as well as the debut of The Simpsons. In particular, it brought a new sense that there was an older audience out there that was interested in animation outside of the children's medium it has often been demoted to.
Liquid Television was a stepping stone in the right direction in showcasing a number of works that might not otherwise had reach a more mainstream audience outside of film festivals or other remote venues, as well as highlighting upcoming talent like Bill Plympton and Mike Judge. Liquid TV at the time was a co-production between MTV and several other companies including (Colossal) Pictures, one of several animation studios who had previously contributed to MTV's promotional ID's and would later produce Peter Chung's Aeon Flux. MTV's own animation division wouldn't start up until at least the end of '92 or the beginning of '93 with the start of Beavis & Butt-Head.
I had been slightly familiar with the Brothers Quay through their work on MTV back then, and had later saw some of their shorts including this one. Though you had sighted how they use found-items in producing their animation, it's often said the major influence on their work was from Czech animator Jan Svankmajer, who they had named one of their films after, "The Cabinet of Jan Svankmajer". Svankmajer himself had made many surreal shorts and several feature-length movies in his career including 1988's "Alice", a rather dark retelling of Lewis Carroll's first 'Alice' book (had to see this in college).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_%C5%A0vankmajer