The centaurs--excerpts

SUMMARY
A half human-half horse boy and girl meet and fall in love. They have a baby and go home to their parents for a happy reunion.

Among the final films of master cartoonist Winsor McCay are these pieces animated in collaboration with his son John and longtime assistant, John Fitzsimmons. They may have been released as part of the 1921 series Dreams of the Rarebit Fiend. Only these fragments seem to have survived.

CREATED/PUBLISHED
United States : [Rialto Productions?, 1921].

NOTES
Additional animators, John McCay, John Fitzsimmons.

Digital file includes a piano score composed and performed by Philip Carli.

SUBJECTS
Centaurs--Drama.
Courtship--Drama.
Infants--Drama.
Families--Drama.
Love--Drama.
Fantasy--Animation--Short.

DIGITAL ID
animp 4083 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mbrsmi/animp.4083

Category:

Film & Animation

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• library
• congress
• animation
• centaurs
• fantasy
• short