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| From | rob@splitsville.com |
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| Date | Mon, 17 Apr 2006 22:23:24 -0400 |
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Hello All,
I distincly remember, when I was a very young lad, watching a cartoon about alienation, discrimination and redemption. It was a story of a young, round-headed boy banished by a pointed-headed society to the 'forest of points', only to find his way home more worldly and wiser than the town elders.
Seriously, about every 24-36 months of my teens to (advanced) adulthood something would remind me of this cartoon that I saw on TV when I was just a young lad...a boy with a round head, ostracized by the community, forced to leave the town with his faithful dog Arrow.
'Wherever we go, everyone knows it's me and my Arrow'
Netflix is a wonderful thing, as sometime recently that song and the DVD title, 'The Point', jumped in my head while I was doing a mundane search for something unrelated (probably a 'Viggo Mortenson' or 'Christian Bale' search for the wife).
Anyhoo, of course I rented it, and as I read the description, much to my pleasanat surprise, the cartoon was created by, produced by and the soundtrack mostly sung by Harry Nillson- and he sang it beautifully. Hopefully it provided some fame and $$ for the late man.
And the best part? The narrator was none other than Richard Starkey.
Remember, this cartoon was shown on network television in 1971. At that moment in time there might have been...1...2..THREE people more famous than Ringo... maybe? And I did type maybe.
And of those three, would you have chosen any of them to narrate a cartoon before Ringo? Many of you would probably say, 'no'.
To say that the cartoon is influenced by Yellow Submarine is an understatement. Very surreal, and the three-headed man who keeps popping up as the Greek chorus could easily find a place in Pepperland.
The protagonist, the poor child who becomes the hero, Oglio, is voiced by Mike Lookinland (no need for me to make further commentary).
I can't recall, tho' I may have certainly missed it, any commentary on this site about 'The Point'. I can only imagine that many of you have sat there and watched it with your kids, as you own the DVD.
Was there ever a commercial soundtrack? I know for a fact that I did see this on TV at 5 years old. Why, for some reason, do I recall ABC?
Naturally, I am looking forward to any and all insights, anecdotes and updates from the Auditees crowd.
Rob
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