{"id":14395,"date":"2015-09-20T18:25:08","date_gmt":"2015-09-20T23:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/?p=14395"},"modified":"2015-09-20T18:40:02","modified_gmt":"2015-09-20T23:40:02","slug":"first-class-second-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/first-class-second-class\/","title":{"rendered":"First class, second class"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TZlb5nMTji8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>About a hundred thousand years ago, I saw several episodes of the <em>International Festival of Animation<\/em> on teevee, with Jean Marsh as host. Some of the short films were wonderful; others were tedious. As the show progressed, the proportion of the latter increased, and I eventually lost patience. My favorite was a piece called &#8220;Second Class Passenger,&#8221; an account of an uneventful train ride in Europe. Once I discovered YouTube, I&#8217;d search periodically to see if someone had uploaded it. I finally found it this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Traveller Second Class&#8221; was released in 1973 by Borivoj Dovnikovic, or &#8220;Bordo,&#8221; of the Zagreb school of animation. There&#8217;s quite a bit of Zagreb animation at YouTube, including more of Dovnikovic. It&#8217;s sometimes good \u2014 the character designs and slapstick often remind me of Jay Ward productions \u2014 but too often the fun is compromised by an excess of message. The train ride is the only example I can unreservedly recommend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About a hundred thousand years ago, I saw several episodes of the International Festival of Animation on teevee, with Jean Marsh as host. Some of the short films were wonderful; others were tedious. As the show progressed, the proportion of the latter increased, and I eventually lost patience. My favorite was a piece called &#8220;Second &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/first-class-second-class\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;First class, second class&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-occidental-animation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xam3-3Kb","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14395"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14398,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14395\/revisions\/14398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}