Sky Whales movie?

October 17, 2008 4:56 PM

Can you help me remember this barely remembered cartoon from my childhood? A community of alien looking people live on a floating island and go out in flying boats to catch flying whales. Every so often one of them would turn blue and die, and they would throw him down a well. The well was actually a hole passing through the island and as the body fell it would turn into a new sky whale. Any ideas?
posted by Artw to media & arts (9 comments total)

It is called "Sky Whales" and it was part of the 19th Tournee of Animation.
posted by Class Goat at 5:03 PM on October 17, 2008

YouTube
posted by Class Goat at 5:05 PM on October 17, 2008 [3 favorites has favorites]

Damn, I thought I could answer this one for you. It's Sky Whales for sure. That shit gave me crazy nightmares as a kid.
posted by JimmyJames at 7:17 PM on October 17, 2008

Wow, simple as that!
posted by Artw at 8:36 PM on October 17, 2008

Ok, that was awesome! Thanks for asking about it!
posted by The Light Fantastic at 11:33 PM on October 17, 2008

That's just weird.
posted by Mephisto at 8:14 AM on October 18, 2008

Nice animation. And voiced by Kryten. :D
posted by rlk at 8:43 AM on October 18, 2008

That was haunting and brilliant. I don't understand why it's not more famous.

Robert Llewellyn! I knew I recognized that name.
posted by Countess Elena at 7:32 PM on October 18, 2008

I don't understand why it's not more famous.

When it came to independent animation back at that time, being included in one of the Tournees was just about as famous as it was possible to be. There wasn't really any market, let alone broad interest, in that kind of thing, unless your cartoon was "sick and twisted" or you worked for the National Film Board of Canada.
posted by Class Goat at 8:21 PM on October 18, 2008