Cat Stevens - Teaser & Firecat animated + live Intro - 1973

The animated "Teaser And The Firecat" with short "live" intro. This is how "Moonshadow/Teaser cartoon" was shown/played on ABC In Concert - 11/09/73.


Clips from same concert:

Father & Son:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AL-9NFtUP9U

Wild World:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miCS4R3plXQ

Morning Has Broken:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TWd3skb-Rw

18th Avenue:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsNQBGmF4Fc

Moonshadow/Teaser cartoon:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51saNdPQa4E

King Of Trees:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_fHyk9wwDc

A Bad Penny
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVf_HhnEDZs

The Hurt:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbl1wsTPYos

The Foreigner Suite:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHPPsWDR8Ss

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[rotenpoet]

Someone please tell me... did he actually do this cartoon himself? Cuz I know he did the artwork for that album featuring Teaser and the Firecat himself... and is it him narating??

[socialisto75]

Cat Stevens was the producer, animation was done at London's TRICKFILM around 1972, with Errol Lecain as chief animator. The narration is by Spike Milligan.

[doorcat13]

AND it's a TRUE story

[JackStarkey57]

You don't have anything to loose if you believe in this magic animation...great song of great Cat Stevens.

[BethBaez15]

I wanna get a cat and name it firecat :)

[scoobystar97]

If you say it's trippy ...you just don't understand....*sigh* ...oh modern world..

[Neonb88]

Pretty trippy.

[chemicalcarlos]

@socialisto75 So awesome. I love Spike Milligan, and I love that he did the narration. He slipped a bit of Eccles (a character from the 1950s BBC Goon Show radio program he did w/ Peter Sellers) in there.

[Paulmarti]

Oh man, this is so trippy

[TaliesinEmrys]

@rotenpoet Cat Stevens not only did the cover art for both Teaser and the Firecat and Tea for the Tillerman albums, but the artwork was sourced from the children's book that he wrote and illustrated also called "Teaser and the Firecat"

The cartoon is the animated version of  "Teaser and the Firecat", the book.

It was a great book, (I did have a copy once), but I'm not sure if it would still be available.

Cheers.

[madahad9]

I first saw this in a film called The Fantastic Animation Festival with a lot of other similarly psychedelic animated short films that can be located on Youtube but sadly the film itself in whole is not yet available on DVD. I wish I knew to whom it could be petioned to release this wonderful collection.

[BODYSLAMwrestling]

You can definitely tell the "Yellow Submarine" influence on the animation.

[willowblack1]

Absolutely wonderful!! Thank you for sharing!!

[darkfey1963]

@sowhosasking My little sister had it-our mom was a big Cat Stevens fan.Wish it was still around,neat little book.Lucky you,I might have to look myself.