At 3:52 PM -0600 2/15/0, Adam Wathen wrote: >A friend of mine is in search of an animated film shown recently on PBS. I >have not been able to track any information down and was wondering if >someone on the list might have picked up what he saw. > >Here is his e-mail: > >"I saw a animated movie on PBS a while back about these fish-like people that >lived on a planet, and they had humans as pets. One little girl got away >with the learning device of the aliens and went into a park, and learned all >there technology. They then proceeded to overthrow the alien race by going >to the moon and shooting the souls of the aliens as they mated with other >aliens from other planets.... > >anyone have any idea what the name of this was? I believe it was originally >french..." > >I don't know what exactly he means by "movie." I assume it could just be >an episode of a series or a film short. > >Adam. > This is the 1973 Rene Laloux animated feature "La Planete Sauvage," or "Fantastic Planet" in English. --Richard Leskosky ===================================================== Richard J. Leskosky Office phone: (217) 244-2704 Assistant Director FAX: (217) 333-7310 Unit for Cinema Studies <http://www.uiuc.edu/unit/cinema> University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 3035 Foreign Languages Building 707 S. Mathews Avenue Urbana, Illinois 61801 ---- To sign off Screen-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF Screen-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]