Quasi at the Quackadero
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- Опубликовано: 29 сен 2024
- This cult cartoon follows two ducks and a pet robot at an amusement park in the future where time travel is exploited. Hugely popular in the 1970s, and available today on DVD in my Etsy store, www.etsy.com/shop/funonmars
Thanks. You don't need to take acid to have weird thoughts and imagine weird things.
But it helps!
PREACH
Agreed.
So very beautifully true 👍💯
Frank Zappa would have agreed with that wholeheartedly.
Many animators flip out if their work ends up on youtube, and I can understand that. I just decided to jump in- would rather have people see the work and enjoy it. copyright's over in my opinion.
Sally, thanks for posting! I showed this film to friends in 16mm many times back in the day. But since it was shot in 35mm, couldn't you post a better version? DVD-quality at least but HD w/o the hum would be even better! (hope you still have a copy!) - thanks - Gary
@@gdavisloop Thanks Gary. When I posted this 17 years ago there weren't as many formats allowed by RUclips. I don't have an HD file, and although I have a better quality file than this one, you can't upload and override a previous file. Instead it comes in as a whole new file, with a chance all the 700 old comments will be deleted.
@@sallycruikshank You should get in touch with the people from @deafcrocodile. They release a lot of cult animation on blu ray and your work is legendary. It really deserves to be seen in the best possible quality to appreciate all the amazing detail!
Did Sally Cruikshank predict the future, because Quasi is totally watching youtube in the beginning....
+cosmosblue772 Ha! Love your comment!
No! He was watching by a spreadable tv
This animation gets better everytime i watch it!
Ha, I wish it did!
It's still superb after all these years. A thanks goes to not only you Cruikshank for making it but also to the National Film Registry for introducing me to it.
Thank you @misterjj that's so nice of you!
You're most welcome. It's important for artists to know that their work is greatly appreciated.@@sallycruikshank
@@misterjj I like your attitude. I see so many artists creating great things and they're barely noticed. Jasper Johns is an artist whose work especially annoys me.
I've heard that name but must check out his work. Thanks for the recommendation. I'm not sure what your music tastes are but there was a great band out of Melbourne called Models.@@sallycruikshank
Oh wow, I saw this back in the 70's when I was in college, and I NEVER forgot it. So very glad to see it again, and now that I'm an animator myself, I'm even more amazed by it. Brilliant.
Every time I rewatch this, I keep forgetting how much I enjoy it. Truly one of the high points of humanity
Yikes, thanks.
Sally Cruikshank wow. You responded to little ole me. This moment is going up there on my list of best moments in my life.
@@ProfCoolio some times I get comments I really want to reply to, but when I hit the reply button from email the comment has vanished.
Sally Cruikshank regardless, you really made my day.
In this day and age, it doesn't even occur to people that a great cartoon can be created without a huge team of animators. The work you put into this shows, and will only impress people MORE as time goes by.
Once upon a time I took my boss on a date to an animation festival in Cambridge. We've been married 30 years and she still occasionally whines "Quasi..." at me. We were SO EXCITED to read in the newspaper today that Quasi was inducted into the National Film Registry.
Congrats, Sally, and thank you so much for posting your film here for us to watch.
I first knew of this short thanks to Jerry Beck's "The 50 Greatest Cartoons" and I gotta say, after finally watching it, I definitely agree with its inclusion!
Well thanks very much!
Wow! I saw this in Petaluma, CA at an arty theater downtown - sometime around 1975/76 - with my friend Tasha, whose boyfriend (Lonnie) played bass in the Steve Miller Band. Just thought of this film during a sleepless night a few days ago. Brings back a lot of fond memories of those long-ago times...
Thanks for making this, and thanks for posting this work!
That's really great. I remember that theatre I think, and know the feeling of sleepless nights all too well lately.
I can't remember where I first saw this and heard of Sally Cruikshank. It might have been at my college in the early 80s or perhaps as a short before one of Susan Seidelman's films at an art house in Boston? In any case, I do remember how amazed and delighted I was. I'd never seen anything like it and how I wanted to see more. Now, finally, I can. I just ordered the DVD and look forward to sharing it with my kids (who are about to turn 17). I think they'll be as gobsmacked as I was. Yay!
Thanks Andrew! Maybe at the coffee house "Off the Wall"? Thanks for buying my dvd. I'll mail it to you tomorrow.
Thank you, Sally! I've been enjoying the DVD so much - and my kids do, too! What is the music that plays when on the Menu page? It goes through my head all the time now!
That's nice. It's an excerpt from the dream reader sequence. I kind of regret using that because such a short clip repeats so much.
This is one of those films... One that I saw as a kid, and has just stuck with me in the back of my mind for the majority of my life. Today I am so glad to finally see this short again after all these years ❤
A really nice comment, thank you.
Sally Cruikshank Wow! You're amazing! After seeing this it only left me wanting to see more of your work! I had been thinking about it for some time off and on, that it seemed like the same artist that worked on twilight zone the movie, and when I found out, I thought, "ya know, I bet she did mannequin too" and what do you know? I really think that your work was heavily influential to the 1980s pop aesthetic and that in time you will go down as one of the greats!
Unbelievable 😨 I just looked online for your merchandise. I was going to ask if there were better copies of your toons on line but I only saw one from Etsy. I'm sorry Miss Cruikshank, you deserve more. I am going to order one as soon as I get the chance 😊
Thanks so much. I sell multiple copies of the dvd, I guess it looks like there's only one.
Sally Cruikshank hmm.. I really wish we could, idk, make a restoration society for your work. I do analysis about strange things mainly on my channel and I want to talk about stuff that's odd also but not always creepy. Would you mind if some day soon I made a video documentary about your work. I feel like there's a story here that needs to be told. Lots of 💓 to you and I hope you are doing well on this day!
interesting possibility...
I'd love to see "Don't go in the Basement". Love that song and the film fits it perfectly.
I love absolutely every video on your channel. This may be my favorite singular cartoon ever and it’s such an endless joy. Thank you for all the absolutely wonderful work you’ve done!
Wow, that's really nice, Dr. Teeth! Thank you!
Thanks so much for posting this. I've been looking for this video since the early 80's. I couldn't get Quasi's "past lives" out of my head saying "Hello, Quasi". :-) Sally Cruikshank is an absolute genius.
I have seen Quasi in the 70'
At some cartoon festival here in Italy, still remembered it
so today I found it here.
now youtube is working as time machine
This is amazing. I don't know how I have never heard of this artist. This stuff was absolutely revolutionary.
thank you thank you thank you!
I just discovered the existence of this animation. I'm now interested in your other works.
Great. Grab a chair!
I've watched this 10 times in the last three days. It's amazing how much of this aesthetic was appropriated by more or less mainstream places in the 80s and early 90s. This is like the Big Bang that formed all the media of my childhood.
Thank you for posting this, Sally! I just saw it for the first time at the Olympia Comics Festival on Saturday -- it blew my mind! I've read umpteem underground comic books, but never knew there was a film that's even better! Thank you, thank you!
Legendary Cartoon, I love Quasi
Great stuff! I love how the gags aren't "Haha that's clever" humor, they're "What the ef did I just see" humor...which is much more interesting.
Thanks MickPosch-
Thank you, jabowery. This information amazed me... Sally
I used to love watching Quasi when I was a kid. SelecTV used to air it in the early 80's. looking forward to going through your channel to view more of your work :))
Thanks, Chris.
Thank you, ChuChu353. I still can't believe it!
I love this Psychedelic Animation 😍 I remember first seeing it on the Futurama Movie: Bender's Game, I love your work sally cruikshank I remember most of your Animations from my Childhood
So nice, thank you.
Nifty, from Oz, thanks whatblah43!
I've had these characters tucked in the back in my mind since the late 70's or early 80's when I first saw them- on NightFlight maybe? It's wonderful to find it them again - love'em, especially Anita's Mae West-ish voice! If your work didn't inspire Matt Groening I'd be surprised. Thank you so much for sharing this again.
Thanks lisad62002. NightFlight may be revived, it's a possibility.
gorgeous!
thanks, I'll try to load it again later today.
and thanks cds3570, at one point Ron Epple distributed all my films.
wow! this may be a contender with Ub Iwerks Balloonland for my favorite cartoon
Thanks for nice comment. I am out of it with digital music. Maybe if you bought the dvd you could pull it off of that but I really don't know. Sorry.
Every creative work reveals influences. Comb through a library sometime and I bet you'll find others. Judging this film on its own merits, I say it's a brilliant cartoon.
So this is where Felix Colgrave gets his inspiration from....
They'd be glad to hear that. I'll pass it on.
I'd completely forgotten about that until I read your note here, but you're right it was on a
Steve Martin one off show. His autobio, published last year, is quite good.
This is so funny and clever! I like Anita, but I don't understand why she wanted to get rid of Quasi. Is he supposed to be her brother?
Very interesting cartoon!
I also really liked the guitar sequence that played from 4:42 to 5:49 Anyone know if it has a name or anything??
Thanks. It never had a name, was just recorded for this cartoon.
Sigh. The Off-the-Wall Cinema in Cambridge. Memories.
May have to recalibrate my weird-o-meter after that one . . .
you're great. thanks.
This is Genius!
this comment is so old omfg
hey are any of you seeing an ad on this page? I struggled to be allowed video revenue with youtube, they finally gave me permission, but I don't see any ads. Maybe blocked for my view?
@ChuChu353 thanks for the monster compliment- no idea why it got flagged as spam- maybe too many names?
@cloudrat7 HA! Glad you had a girl! Thanks for nice comment.
You know, I really wish I'd met him as so many people refer to him and seem to have been so influenced by his thinking.
Met Hal Lucinogens? Nah, you didn't need to.
LOL! Thanks!
+Sally Cruikshank did you do work on Sesame Street? I remember your art or art inspired by it being on Sesame Street, watched in the 80s.
I did quite a few animated songs for Sesame Street, but starting in 1989.
Sally, I’m hoping to cosplay as Quasi soon, and I’d absolutely LOVE to get your approval/blessing :)
Sounds fine, send me a picture!
The best of the best of the very best.
It's actually pretty funny you mention that because they are influenced by Sally Cruikshank the Animator of this.
Oh Quasi
wow, the QuasiTron!!! Is your short on youtube?
Hey, quick question. Being a fan of voice acting I was wondering who did the voices in this? Unless I spaced out or something I didn't notice any voice credits. All the voices were great, for some reason I really liked Anita's especially. Also, what is Anita's and Quasi's relationship exactly? Just wondering why she felt the need to push him into prehistory...
Well, still watching this faithfully for these 35 -odd years! Just wondering, Ms. Cruikshank, if you know if the young lady by the last name of Pellegrini is related to the gentleman, one Tulio Pellegrini I believe, whose color film of San Francisco in the 1950's is also shown on RUclips??
I really don't think so, but have lost touch with Diana. There were many Pellegrinis in North Beach area of San Francisco around that time. Sorry response so slow.
im gonna sample the audio in a song one of these days
1 hour ago
@laughingsal Hey Sally :-) FWIW, you are a charter member of my personal Animation Hall of Fame LOL. You're in good company, too! It includes Emile Cohl, Winsor MacCay, Walt Disney, Ub Iwerks, Max Fleischer, Tex Avery, Bill Hanna & Joe Barbera, Friz Freling, Chuck Jones, Bob Clampett, Hayao Miyazaki, Ralph Bakshi, Don Bluth, and Gennedy Tartakovsky
@thewordhole you're welcome!
Is there anyway to get a full HD 1080p resolution copy of both this and “Make me psychic”? Your work has was always been such a huge inspiration to me, and I wanna be able to have the luxury of watching this in the highest physical condition imaginable. I would also pay to have that and or some animation cells from this!
Sorry, not yet anyway. I made a DCP of "Quasi" then learned it is no easy ride from DCP to full HD. And the transfer was very expensive. I'll be reopening my Etsy store on Monday, so take a look there for cels. Thanks.
@GatBisshop wow that is really weird and interesting. For some reason people around your age seem to really respond to my work, but never heard anything like this before.
The Twilight Zone Movie brought me here
At like 3:58 the music sounds just like this Tom Waits song or maybe it is from that or maybe Tom Waits took it from this or maybe its just the same instrument. Heck i dont know, hello youtubes
Interesting film. Just found out about thus today. Incidentally, what are you favourite cartoon characters?
Betty Boop for one.
yes- you can see them on my channel (laughing sal) and I like your screen name.
thees r awesome i want to draw like this
I am here because of Terence McKenna
I'm sorry I never met him.
heh The animation kinda reminds me of Superjail.
I adore the fact that one of the greatest animators of the 1970s and 80s published one of her greatest works 14 years ago on RUclips and still regularly responds to RUclips comments. Props to you, Mrs. Cruikshank.
Max Herman, that's very nice of you, thank you!
She actually made these movies long before that, but only more recently uploaded them to You Tube
Currently in 2024 this short film is about 49 years old!
"i sure do love looking at pictures of people working" is probably one of my new favorite quotes ever
SAME
It took two years to make this film, working most of every day on it. Before computers came along, the animation process seemed like something from the Middle Ages. I don't know if it was on Showtime or not, but I don't remember getting any checks from them!
Your dedication is inspiring, loved the film! Been coming back to it every so often.
@@scooterjones303 That's so nice, thanks.
@@sallycruikshank The pleasures all mine. Thank you. Curious, have you worked on anything recently or still have the artists itch to scratch? Also, I just looked up some deets about you lol your film was admitted into the National Film Registry! I bet you feel proud of that that’s awesome.
@@scooterjones303 I gave up on Flash after spending too many years with it. I do paintings now, on paper, many of them are on Etsy.
@@sallycruikshank oh very nice! I’m looking through them right now. These look awesome.
yeah, don't worry- people have been assuming that about me for a very long time, incorrectly. Doesn't bother me. I think art in the 70's was generally influenced by drug experiments, whether or not you were the one who took them. A different pov in those days.
Animation is an incredibly tough discipline, even with computers. One cannot animate when drunk or high, in the same way that one cannot drive a car when drunk or high. Well, you can, but you won't like the results the next day. And with animation, you won't have killed anyone. Well, not much.
@@beckoning-chasmyou shouldn’t drive a car while playing the violin either!
Thanks Sally for giving me one of my visual joys. I'm 65 now, and loved this piece and the artwork of Peter Max from the beginning. While I sit here contemplating hanging Christmas lights, my mental Rolodex of sight and sound stopped at Quadi at the Quackadero, and I had to stop to take a step back and smile at a better time. You're an inspiration to never accept the limits of the box, and to always think your way out of it.
@@larrye.jackson7487 Thanks for this really nice message. All the best to you!
The dream reader sequence in this short has stuck with me since the first time I saw it years ago, though the entire thing is wonderfully unique. 50 Greatest cartoons introduced me to your work but its quality speaks for itself. Thanks for the memories!
Thanks for your nice comment. Maybe some day there will be dream readers.
I found out that this cartoon is preserved in the library of Congress and I think that's amazing! Congratulations, your work is wonderfully bizarre, and will be preserved forever!
Thanks Phoenix Quill! Bizarre lives on!
It's certainly no surprise why this is considered one of the greatest pieces of animation of all time. Truly a joy to behold.
So nice of you and cool avatar too
Absolutely love the scene with the woman looking in the mirror, and seeing her holding all the animals whose skin make up her clothes and items. So fun!
thanks lannydragonlover
“I love to watch pictures of people working!” -Quasi predicts modern tv?
Love it!
I think he also predicted what people do on RUclips
This is the bees knees , amazing toon ! I’m watching the rest of your portfolio in a flash !
Yay hooray you're my favorite kind of commenter!
"You don't need to take acid to have weird thoughts and imagine weird things".
Ain't it the truth!
@@sallycruikshank Indeed! All you need to have are weird dreams and a vivid imagination!
Whenever something embarrassing happens, my parents and I just instinctively whimper "THAT NEVER HAPPENED TO ME!"
People look at us funny but we laugh everytime
I'm laughing reading this!
The music was composed and performed by Robert Armstrong and Allan Dodge.
7:22
"What did you say your name was?"
" QWA-ZEE! >:V" *smacks forehead*
I've seen this about a dozen times and it never gets old, the careful thought put into every last piece of imagery is practically engraved in my brain. Thank you for sharing your imagination with us Sally. :)
Kayla D, this is such a nice comment, thank you.
Still a classic. Something that I'm enraptured by with this cartoon, that I don't think I've ever seen put into words, is the fact that it's set in this colorful and whimsical wonderland, with so many scenes focused on exposing the darker, adult nature of the characters. Winky's perversion, Quasi's childlike wish to harm his friends, and of course Anita and Rollo's straight-up abandonment of Quasi, all given opportunity to be expressed through a theme park. It might not even really hit you just how wonderfully rotten these characters are, at least from what I see. Truly a cartoon that has it all!
I just absolutely love your analysis of my cartoon. Whew, spot on!
It's like Betty Boop meets Yellow Submarine
Back when I was 6 years old, Cartoon Network had a day where they aired what they called the "50 Greatest Cartoons of All Time". I randomly remembered I saw this cartoon on there, but only the end where they pushed Quasi over. Not the name or any really solid details. This was a little too abstract for my kid brain at the time to remember it very well. Luckily there was a list compiled of all the cartoons that aired during that day and it didn't take long of Googling each one to find this.
I can appreciate it now as an adult and I'm absolutely going to watch the other cartoons on your channel. Really love how trippy and fun your ideas are.
That's so nice, thanks!
For some strange reason, Quasi feels like a character I've known since my childhood and he emanates some kind of warmth, the strangest part is that this is the first time I've become aware of his existence. I'm amazed something like this can happen.
This definitely reminds me a lot of the early, bizarre Van Beurens from the early 1930s...
I love those cartoons, thanks
Hi Sally, I just did a research essay about you for animation school, and I just wanted to say that your work is extremely inspiring. Thank you so much for everything you have done, and I hope you're doing well!
Amanda, thank you for your lovely, lovely message. Stay inspired! Best, Sally
Thank you saen. The two musicians, Robert Armstrong and Allan Dodge, were friends of mine and composed the music for the film. They were then part of a group "The Cheap Suit Serenaders" and they have some cds on amazon. I just checked.
That was Robert Crumb's group, I believe. Do you know Crumb?
@@thoughtsurferzone5012 Knew him many years ago.
I saw this many many years ago - when I was in college late 70's to early 80's and it has always stuck in my mind and heart. My best friend then who still is my BFF, will call me up and say, "hey ya quasi, wanna go to the quackadero?" So great to see this again and discover other works by Sally Cruikshank. Many thanks to her for this wonderfully fun and fantasy escape imaginary world.
Julie, thanks for your really nice comment. How wonderful to still have your best friend as your BFF!
this is absolutely deranged and i love it
goaway first cousin once removed- :)
The funny thing is that the creeps/smiles effect is exactly what I was trying to do.
I actually saw Quasi and Make Me Psychic in theaters in Berkeley c. 1972 (maybe the long-gone Northside) and wondered why this genius wasn't making feature films while Disney was cranking out garbage. I'm still wondering. My own fault for not becoming a billionaire and financing you.
Quasi's house is the only person (?) who's nice to him in the whole thing! (With good reason, I might add.)
Scott Brown Interesting observation-
I saw this in 1980 (?) on Dutch tv, was absolutely fascinated by it and as my dad had recorded the broadcast on VHS, just couldn't get enough of it and kept watching it over and over again for years! The dialogues, plot, the music... even the name Sally Cruikshank sounded mesmerising to me and how happy I am now I've found it now on youtube!
Dutch tv? That's very cool.
Sally, you are fantastic, absolutely fantastic!!
Thank you, thank you Fernando.
Wow this kinda reminds me of that Yellow Submarine movie or a even more ethereal Tex Avery! Thanks for filling so many imaginations with this!
Thanks back!
I do have a question. What exactly is Anita's relationship to Quasi? Turbulent friends? In this short she seems to be doing all in her power to get rid of him but in Make Me Psychic they seem to be on better terms. Just curious :)
i got deep into the boingo rabbit hole when i was about 12 or 13 and naturally found face like a frog - it always stuck with me! took me ages to investigate but i am so glad i finally did! such a unique and strong flavour, really humorous and so much love put in... thank you so much for uploading and all your hard work and i love reading your replies to comments! the cels on your etsy site are crazy to look at too, i would love to see what a modern scan / restoration of the original work would look like. was this on 16mm?
Thanks for your lovely and thoughtful comment. I did make a digital transfer from 35mm (original format) to a DCP. It cost a lot of money and has so far not even been used, and this was pre pandemic when I made the transfer.
@@sallycruikshank thanks for your reply! it's a shame that it hasn't been used yet - did you transfer any others to DCP? i sort of half work in a weird independent cinema in the UK and know of some places that might be interested to show your weird stuff! i hope as many people as possible can see your work!
@@diabalotia thanks. That's the only one on DCP. In the US my films are shown in museums on 35mm sometimes. Had a show at the Academy Museum in LA in October.