Cultoons

Nursery Rhyme Films (2x9)

Data de estreia: Jan 01, 1948

Nursery Rhyme Films (1948, 5:21) was a company that specialised in brief interpretations of children’s poems, and here we’re offered a sampling of four: This Little Pig, Hey Diddle Diddle, Three Blind Mice and Jack And Jill, all running exactly 1:20 each. There’s not much to say about these, since they all follow the same format: a narrated version of the text on screen, followed by a second character-led read-through, and finally a literal animation sequence that concludes things. Perhaps intended for television, these are at least fully animated and quite imaginative in how they deal with visualising the sometimes frankly absurd children’s verses.