Skywhales

I saw this years ago and have thought about it often. It is mostly as I remembered it. I would love to see a better copy of it but appreciate you posting this one.

this scared the crap out of me when i was little.

I wish more animation were like this.

(over limit continued)
Watching it a second time, now knowing the significance of the eye-covering, the wife's concern was about him being close to his change. ("Oh, Honey, you're too close to your change. You should be getting into your change robes." "I got plenty of time for one more hunt!") Or possibly that the act of going out on a whale hunt causes the change. ("But Honey, this might be the trip that puts you over!" "Maybe, but the village still has to eat.")

Watching it the first time, just taking everything in, I pegged this as "A typical day in Alien Nantucket." I figured the husband as being sort of elderly, the wife's concern was about him being so old. ("But, Honey, you're getting too old for this." "No, I'm not!") Which was reinforced by the reaction of the junior captain to his arrival. I figured the two grey guys were priests, or similar respected elderly. All in all, right up to the transformation, the ending was a surprise.
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Not as good as I remembered it to be, and it's taken me ages to find this!

Thanks for posting anyway.

omg their speaking is already annoying at 10 secs in... my brain hurts

Well, I'm not sleeping tonight.

I guess because psychedelic Disney-loving, Greenpeace-supporting college kids are too busy being emo or slutty nowadays. Hence the whiny & rappy videos, i guess.

Same here, some scenes haunted me for more than twenty years, never thought i'd see it again and ended up here by coincidence (looking for another haunting animation, Fantastic Planet)... Thank you algoyo for putting this online