The Tell-Tale Heart
The Tell-Tale Heart is a wonderful animated short film of 1953 based on Edgar Allan Poe short-story. The story told by a mad man has a dark visual with a perfect work of narration by James Mason. It is a UPA Production and was the first cartoon to be X-rated (adults only) in Great Britain under the British Board of Film Censors classification system. Really great - you have to see it. (via The Crime In Your Coffee)
Update: It's also available to watch at Videos with Bibi.
Comments
this one is just beautiful. here's a new animated adaptation that's also looking good:
http://www.cartoonbrew.com/archives/2005_05.html#001078
boa semana para você também bibi :)
Posted by: jorge | June 14, 2005 2:15 AM
Obrigada pela dica Jorge. Quem sabe não aparece por aqui no Anima Mundi essa animação. :)
Posted by: Bibi | June 14, 2005 4:54 AM
I first saw this short film in 8mm sound format when I was just a kid running wild with my first movie camera and sound projector. All these years later I remember it vividly - it is quite simply great. It captures the essence of Poe in a stark and original way with a trace of the early pop art of the 1960s. A visual blast and the eloquently creepy tone of James Mason's narration is brilliant. I hit this blog in my search for trying to get a copy of it in digital format.
Posted by: Tony | June 30, 2005 3:31 PM