The granddaddy of anime is Osamu Tezuka’s Astro Boy, a TV show that held much fascination for me in childhood. Partially a mixture of Frankenstein and Pinocchio, Astro Boy was often whimsical to the point of being surreal. Here’s Astro wishing he had a mother, in a scene seemingly inspired by Salvador Dali.
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Dali himself did dally in film, as seen in this scene from Alfred Hitchcock’s Spellbound.
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That eerie sound is a Theremin, also heard prominently in Billy Wilder’s The Lost Weekend. A staple of horror and science fiction films, the Theremin was famously used by Brian Wilson in “Good Vibrations.”
Poor Astro Boy! I haven’t seen “Spellbound” in years! and do you call that “hardly anything on?” Molly thought that part was hysterical! Of course, that makes a sad statement for today’s society, and what they let get by on TV. “I dreamed I was chasing Gregory Peck in my Maidenform bra …”