The Curious Adventures of Mr. Wonderbird - Songbird

It's actually "La bergere et le ramoneur" with English dubbing, and once you see this early bit of 1950s French animation by Paul Grimault, you'll understand where a lot of the more stylish and strange newer animations came from.

A loose adaptation of "The Shepherdess and the Chimneysweep", it carries a lot of undercurrents and commentary on a world since passed by. Explaining this movie will not help, particularly when you get to the point that the common folk, living in their ruins under the gleaming city, think those lions and tigers (and bear) are birds.

But between Wonderbird, the giant robot, and the beasts, they finally find peace and beauty away from the dictator and his creepy police force.

Grimault has since finished the film to his liking, the hard to get "Le roi et l'oiseau".




The song, Songbird, lent itself fairly well to the character of the film. There's a peculiar delicacy of strength that carries from the music-box introduction into the main body of the song, a nearly sad tone to what should be a power ballad.

But if you want to be free, you've got to be prepared for hard work and loss along with the joys, right?




This is also Hopelessly Human, with Johnny Kalus on drums and vocals, Myron Robinson on bass and backing vocals, and Tedd Smith on guitar.

You can view the movie at the Internet Archive, natch.

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[hallon2809]

I CAN'T FIND THAT TUNE!

could you mail it to me, or send a link! It is undiscoverable...

I'd love to have the song, please!!

perfect film, have both "la bergere et le remoneur" and "le roi et l'oiseau"

[Goldenthrush]

@hallon2809 I'll see about uploading it on the Internet Archive, once I remember where I put the MP3 >.<

[hallon2809]

@Goldenthrush NICE! thank you sooo much! ;)

[SpaceOdyssee]

Thanks.

It's just perfect.