Television, in an unusually sober mood, especially concerned itself with the death of cities.
Sandwiched between the ventriloquists, singers and jugglers on the Ed Sullivan Show was a 6½ miinute animated short, A Short Vision, made by a young British couple, Peter and Joan Foldes, who scored at the 1952 Cannes Film Festival with their first cartoon, Animated Genesis.
The Vision deals with the apocalyptic explosion of a superbomb. Its ghostly passage across the sky startles the animal world. A leopard releases a captured doe, and both cower deep in the underbrush. In the...
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