I adore the fact that one of the greatest animators of the 1970s and 80s published one of her greatest works 14 years ago on TH-cam and still regularly responds to TH-cam comments. Props to you, Mrs. Cruikshank.
I found out that this cartoon is preserved in the library of Congress and I think that's amazing! Congratulations, your work is wonderfully bizarre, and will be preserved forever!
Absolutely love the scene with the woman looking in the mirror, and seeing her holding all the animals whose skin make up her clothes and items. So fun!
It took two years to make this film, working most of every day on it. Before computers came along, the animation process seemed like something from the Middle Ages. I don't know if it was on Showtime or not, but I don't remember getting any checks from them!
@@sallycruikshank The pleasures all mine. Thank you. Curious, have you worked on anything recently or still have the artists itch to scratch? Also, I just looked up some deets about you lol your film was admitted into the National Film Registry! I bet you feel proud of that that’s awesome.
Whenever something embarrassing happens, my parents and I just instinctively whimper "THAT NEVER HAPPENED TO ME!" People look at us funny but we laugh everytime
Back when I was 6 years old, Cartoon Network had a day where they aired what they called the "50 Greatest Cartoons of All Time". I randomly remembered I saw this cartoon on there, but only the end where they pushed Quasi over. Not the name or any really solid details. This was a little too abstract for my kid brain at the time to remember it very well. Luckily there was a list compiled of all the cartoons that aired during that day and it didn't take long of Googling each one to find this. I can appreciate it now as an adult and I'm absolutely going to watch the other cartoons on your channel. Really love how trippy and fun your ideas are.
I saw this many many years ago - when I was in college late 70's to early 80's and it has always stuck in my mind and heart. My best friend then who still is my BFF, will call me up and say, "hey ya quasi, wanna go to the quackadero?" So great to see this again and discover other works by Sally Cruikshank. Many thanks to her for this wonderfully fun and fantasy escape imaginary world.
The dream reader sequence in this short has stuck with me since the first time I saw it years ago, though the entire thing is wonderfully unique. 50 Greatest cartoons introduced me to your work but its quality speaks for itself. Thanks for the memories!
I've seen this about a dozen times and it never gets old, the careful thought put into every last piece of imagery is practically engraved in my brain. Thank you for sharing your imagination with us Sally. :)
I saw this in 1980 (?) on Dutch tv, was absolutely fascinated by it and as my dad had recorded the broadcast on VHS, just couldn't get enough of it and kept watching it over and over again for years! The dialogues, plot, the music... even the name Sally Cruikshank sounded mesmerising to me and how happy I am now I've found it now on youtube!
Many animators flip out if their work ends up on youtube, and I can understand that. I just decided to jump in- would rather have people see the work and enjoy it. copyright's over in my opinion.
Sally, thanks for posting! I showed this film to friends in 16mm many times back in the day. But since it was shot in 35mm, couldn't you post a better version? DVD-quality at least but HD w/o the hum would be even better! (hope you still have a copy!) - thanks - Gary
@@gdavisloop Thanks Gary. When I posted this 17 years ago there weren't as many formats allowed by TH-cam. I don't have an HD file, and although I have a better quality file than this one, you can't upload and override a previous file. Instead it comes in as a whole new file, with a chance all the 700 old comments will be deleted.
@@sallycruikshank You should get in touch with the people from @deafcrocodile. They release a lot of cult animation on blu ray and your work is legendary. It really deserves to be seen in the best possible quality to appreciate all the amazing detail!
For some strange reason, Quasi feels like a character I've known since my childhood and he emanates some kind of warmth, the strangest part is that this is the first time I've become aware of his existence. I'm amazed something like this can happen.
This is one of my favorite animated short films ever, and one of the the inspirations for my interest in animation. Thank you Sally, and thank you Quasi!
as of july 2024 this is captivates me like all your works have during my youth. im grateful they are on youtube and that you read and respond to so many comments. much love
Oh wow, I saw this back in the 70's when I was in college, and I NEVER forgot it. So very glad to see it again, and now that I'm an animator myself, I'm even more amazed by it. Brilliant.
We first saw this in a theater when i was a kid. We got a poster there and you signed it for us. We still have it! Later my parents managed to obtain the 16mm reel of it, which we also still have! Just thought to look you up on TH-cam and here you are. Thank you for your art, which has been so important in my life (Face Like a Frog is another favorite).
I am 25 and came here to watch this video again and write almost this exact statement. Your work is an inspiration that has had a wide spread influence on many artists, thank you so much for making these videos available.
Once upon a time I took my boss on a date to an animation festival in Cambridge. We've been married 30 years and she still occasionally whines "Quasi..." at me. We were SO EXCITED to read in the newspaper today that Quasi was inducted into the National Film Registry. Congrats, Sally, and thank you so much for posting your film here for us to watch.
The one and only time I saw the Twilight Zone movie on TV as a kid, the animated sequence was instantly seared onto my consciousness forever. I'm so glad I came back to investigate it in later years and found this channel. Now I adore this masterpiece. Thank you so much for sharing your unique, funny, startling imagination with us! Quasi lives!
Still a classic. Something that I'm enraptured by with this cartoon, that I don't think I've ever seen put into words, is the fact that it's set in this colorful and whimsical wonderland, with so many scenes focused on exposing the darker, adult nature of the characters. Winky's perversion, Quasi's childlike wish to harm his friends, and of course Anita and Rollo's straight-up abandonment of Quasi, all given opportunity to be expressed through a theme park. It might not even really hit you just how wonderfully rotten these characters are, at least from what I see. Truly a cartoon that has it all!
Wow! I saw this in Petaluma, CA at an arty theater downtown - sometime around 1975/76 - with my friend Tasha, whose boyfriend (Lonnie) played bass in the Steve Miller Band. Just thought of this film during a sleepless night a few days ago. Brings back a lot of fond memories of those long-ago times... Thanks for making this, and thanks for posting this work!
I got this movie from the Public Library back in 1983 or 82, when I lived in Iowa City , Iowa, I just thought about Quasi, and looked it up on Google, because I was telling someone about the Animation, and here in 2022 you can look this movie up on your phone, the only hitch was googles robot kept spitting out Quasi at the Darrell, not hearing Quackadarro. I LOVE all these movies
I remember seeing this during Cartoon Networks 100 greatest cartoons back in the 90s. It sort of disturbed me in a way as a kid, but it also stuck with me. It's definitely one of the more interesting cartoons I've seen.
It took me at least an hour to watch this, every couple of seconds I had to pause to enjoy the shapes and the distance between them. Thank you for doing your best from the bottom of my heart
yeah, don't worry- people have been assuming that about me for a very long time, incorrectly. Doesn't bother me. I think art in the 70's was generally influenced by drug experiments, whether or not you were the one who took them. A different pov in those days.
Animation is an incredibly tough discipline, even with computers. One cannot animate when drunk or high, in the same way that one cannot drive a car when drunk or high. Well, you can, but you won't like the results the next day. And with animation, you won't have killed anyone. Well, not much.
Thanks Sally for giving me one of my visual joys. I'm 65 now, and loved this piece and the artwork of Peter Max from the beginning. While I sit here contemplating hanging Christmas lights, my mental Rolodex of sight and sound stopped at Quadi at the Quackadero, and I had to stop to take a step back and smile at a better time. You're an inspiration to never accept the limits of the box, and to always think your way out of it.
In this day and age, it doesn't even occur to people that a great cartoon can be created without a huge team of animators. The work you put into this shows, and will only impress people MORE as time goes by.
It's still superb after all these years. A thanks goes to not only you Cruikshank for making it but also to the National Film Registry for introducing me to it.
@@misterjj I like your attitude. I see so many artists creating great things and they're barely noticed. Jasper Johns is an artist whose work especially annoys me.
I've heard that name but must check out his work. Thanks for the recommendation. I'm not sure what your music tastes are but there was a great band out of Melbourne called Models.@@sallycruikshank
Listening to one of Terence Mckenna’s interviews (his last interview in 1999 actually) and he recommended this animation! This must’ve been right up his alley, he loved art and animation.
Back in the early 1980s when I was in the Navy, we had several short 16mm reels of these cartoons, courtesy of AAFES. We were moving from an onboard television film chain system to video tape and I recorded all the reels to video tape. I found these cartoons strangely compelling and would schedule them between shows (ships at sea have no advertising) whenever possible.
Directed here by a Terence McKenna interview, and my god am I grateful to have been turned onto your work! What an incredible feat. I'll be marveling at these for years to come
This was just incredible! I first heard of this cartoon when I was a lad, around 1995 or 1996, when I bought a book called "The 50 Greatest Cartoons." The 10 plus years looking for it did not end in disappointment! Thank you for posting everything on TH-cam, I'm sorry I've missed your work all this time!
I first knew of this short thanks to Jerry Beck's "The 50 Greatest Cartoons" and I gotta say, after finally watching it, I definitely agree with its inclusion!
Ms. Cruikshank, I just want to offer you the same praise I once offered Bill Plympton: your work scarred me as a child. This may sound like a complaint, but I thank you for it. My first experience with Quasi At The Quackadero came with Cartoon Network's "The 50 Greatest Cartoons of All Time" and it was wholly unlike anything else I'd seen up to that point. Everything had such a whimsical, surreal, dreamlike quality to it, yet there was a recurring streak of existential dread running through it. The scene with the time holes was the most existentially terrifying thing I had ever encountered up until that point in my young life. Thank you for creating this true masterpiece of animated cinema and for the seeds it planted in me, which have since blossomed into the weird, wonderful person I am today. Without the works of true artists such as yourself, I'd probably be just another nameless, faceless gear in the machine of this world.
Hi ChineseTonyDanza, thank you for this intriguing comment. I understand what you are saying about existential dread, (at least I think I do), but no one has ever said anything like that about it before.
My sister, who is obsessed with your animations, showed me this along with a few others the other day while we were hanging out. Didn't think I'd be watching them again voluntarily but here I am, and it's GREAT
Congratulations Sally on Quasi being named to The National Film Registry! I first saw it on Night Flight around 1982 while I was in college. Thanks for posting it here so I can see it again :-)
I saw this way back when at "Off the Wall Cinema" a tiny cafe in Cambridge Mass. that showed short films, I was always excited to see a Sally Cruikshank film there. So happy to have found you here. 😍
Rally Truly, I wish so much I had visited "Off the Wall". They were such big boosters of my films. So many people have written me about how great that café was. And only a few years before I was in misery at Smith College in Northampton.
I can't remember where I first saw this and heard of Sally Cruikshank. It might have been at my college in the early 80s or perhaps as a short before one of Susan Seidelman's films at an art house in Boston? In any case, I do remember how amazed and delighted I was. I'd never seen anything like it and how I wanted to see more. Now, finally, I can. I just ordered the DVD and look forward to sharing it with my kids (who are about to turn 17). I think they'll be as gobsmacked as I was. Yay!
Thank you, Sally! I've been enjoying the DVD so much - and my kids do, too! What is the music that plays when on the Menu page? It goes through my head all the time now!
Hi Sally, I just did a research essay about you for animation school, and I just wanted to say that your work is extremely inspiring. Thank you so much for everything you have done, and I hope you're doing well!
I saw this for the first time in the late 70's at an animation festival in Santa Cruz and I've never forgotten it! Sally, I love your style, your imagination, your artwork, and the whole package you create: the music, voices, humor...thanks for making animation that is so thrilling, colorful and funny!
My co-worker three times my age showed me this and it's become our favorite thing to watch at work. With permission I'm hoping to get a Quasi tattoo. Thanks for your inspiring work Sally!
I remember seeing this cartoon, shortly after it was released, probably in Pasadena or South Pasadena. It was a hallmark of the time and a pleasure to see today. Thank you, Sally for the creativity.
Bizarre, strange, completely devoid of any sense of reality. I absolutely love it. It also reminds me a lot of Ralph Bakshi's work in the early '70s (i.e. "Heavy Traffic").
My cousins & I first saw this cartoon in the 80s on TV (probably a public access channel) in Southern CA - it was late at night & we were flipping through channels. We were equal parts intrigued, troubled, and electrified. For years we joked about the National Vegetable Convention & naked carrots, but we couldn't track down the source. Flash forward to about 5-6 years ago, when I did some googling and lucked out in finding an online listing for a cel, then found this link. We made it back to the Quackadero! Whoo hoo! Last year we did a group watch via Zoom & I have referred to the 3 of us as the Sisterhood of the Quackadero. Every watch still intrigues, troubles & electrifies me. As my cousin says, "Thank you, Sally Cruikshank, for another banger!"
Sally, thanks...just watching again as a way of grounding myself after a challenging few weeks and find that Quasi makes me feel so happy...somehow as elemental as air and water. New appreciation for the soundtrack, too.
I have seen Quasi in the 70' At some cartoon festival here in Italy, still remembered it so today I found it here. now youtube is working as time machine
More rad than just about anything. Saw it 35 years ago and have never forgotten it. And such credentials! Kim Deitch? Cheap Suit Serenaders? Is there a sequel?!
my dad showed this to me like 15 years ago, and no one in our family really got it at all, but he was a film minor in the late 70's or early 80's and i guess was trying to show us what was hip at the time. anyway, he and i both still sometimes exclaim "Rollo!"
Just marvelous! As fresh as when I initially saw it in the seventies at an animation festival in San Francisco, where I was completely blown away first by the hilarious title and inspired music, then of course by the characters, voices and animation. (I'd been looking for this; glad I found it again on this site.)
I love absolutely every video on your channel. This may be my favorite singular cartoon ever and it’s such an endless joy. Thank you for all the absolutely wonderful work you’ve done!
Thanks so much for posting this. I've been looking for this video since the early 80's. I couldn't get Quasi's "past lives" out of my head saying "Hello, Quasi". :-) Sally Cruikshank is an absolute genius.
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I adore the fact that one of the greatest animators of the 1970s and 80s published one of her greatest works 14 years ago on TH-cam and still regularly responds to TH-cam comments. Props to you, Mrs. Cruikshank.
Max Herman, that's very nice of you, thank you!
She actually made these movies long before that, but only more recently uploaded them to You Tube
Currently in 2024 this short film is about 49 years old!
Thanks. You don't need to take acid to have weird thoughts and imagine weird things.
But it helps!
PREACH
Agreed.
So very beautifully true 👍💯
Frank Zappa would have agreed with that wholeheartedly.
"i sure do love looking at pictures of people working" is probably one of my new favorite quotes ever
SAME
I found out that this cartoon is preserved in the library of Congress and I think that's amazing! Congratulations, your work is wonderfully bizarre, and will be preserved forever!
Thanks Phoenix Quill! Bizarre lives on!
“I love to watch pictures of people working!” -Quasi predicts modern tv?
Love it!
I think he also predicted what people do on TH-cam
It's certainly no surprise why this is considered one of the greatest pieces of animation of all time. Truly a joy to behold.
So nice of you and cool avatar too
This is the bees knees , amazing toon ! I’m watching the rest of your portfolio in a flash !
Yay hooray you're my favorite kind of commenter!
Absolutely love the scene with the woman looking in the mirror, and seeing her holding all the animals whose skin make up her clothes and items. So fun!
thanks lannydragonlover
It took two years to make this film, working most of every day on it. Before computers came along, the animation process seemed like something from the Middle Ages. I don't know if it was on Showtime or not, but I don't remember getting any checks from them!
Your dedication is inspiring, loved the film! Been coming back to it every so often.
@@scooterjones303 That's so nice, thanks.
@@sallycruikshank The pleasures all mine. Thank you. Curious, have you worked on anything recently or still have the artists itch to scratch? Also, I just looked up some deets about you lol your film was admitted into the National Film Registry! I bet you feel proud of that that’s awesome.
@@scooterjones303 I gave up on Flash after spending too many years with it. I do paintings now, on paper, many of them are on Etsy.
@@sallycruikshank oh very nice! I’m looking through them right now. These look awesome.
Whenever something embarrassing happens, my parents and I just instinctively whimper "THAT NEVER HAPPENED TO ME!"
People look at us funny but we laugh everytime
I'm laughing reading this!
That's one of my favorite parts too. The music is what makes it so great.
Back when I was 6 years old, Cartoon Network had a day where they aired what they called the "50 Greatest Cartoons of All Time". I randomly remembered I saw this cartoon on there, but only the end where they pushed Quasi over. Not the name or any really solid details. This was a little too abstract for my kid brain at the time to remember it very well. Luckily there was a list compiled of all the cartoons that aired during that day and it didn't take long of Googling each one to find this.
I can appreciate it now as an adult and I'm absolutely going to watch the other cartoons on your channel. Really love how trippy and fun your ideas are.
That's so nice, thanks!
I saw this many many years ago - when I was in college late 70's to early 80's and it has always stuck in my mind and heart. My best friend then who still is my BFF, will call me up and say, "hey ya quasi, wanna go to the quackadero?" So great to see this again and discover other works by Sally Cruikshank. Many thanks to her for this wonderfully fun and fantasy escape imaginary world.
Julie, thanks for your really nice comment. How wonderful to still have your best friend as your BFF!
The dream reader sequence in this short has stuck with me since the first time I saw it years ago, though the entire thing is wonderfully unique. 50 Greatest cartoons introduced me to your work but its quality speaks for itself. Thanks for the memories!
Thanks for your nice comment. Maybe some day there will be dream readers.
Wow this kinda reminds me of that Yellow Submarine movie or a even more ethereal Tex Avery! Thanks for filling so many imaginations with this!
Thanks back!
I've seen this about a dozen times and it never gets old, the careful thought put into every last piece of imagery is practically engraved in my brain. Thank you for sharing your imagination with us Sally. :)
Kayla D, this is such a nice comment, thank you.
I saw this in 1980 (?) on Dutch tv, was absolutely fascinated by it and as my dad had recorded the broadcast on VHS, just couldn't get enough of it and kept watching it over and over again for years! The dialogues, plot, the music... even the name Sally Cruikshank sounded mesmerising to me and how happy I am now I've found it now on youtube!
Dutch tv? That's very cool.
This animation gets better everytime i watch it!
Ha, I wish it did!
I was not expecting this to be so good. I think the voice acting is the best part of it all.
Thanks!
Many animators flip out if their work ends up on youtube, and I can understand that. I just decided to jump in- would rather have people see the work and enjoy it. copyright's over in my opinion.
Sally, thanks for posting! I showed this film to friends in 16mm many times back in the day. But since it was shot in 35mm, couldn't you post a better version? DVD-quality at least but HD w/o the hum would be even better! (hope you still have a copy!) - thanks - Gary
@@gdavisloop Thanks Gary. When I posted this 17 years ago there weren't as many formats allowed by TH-cam. I don't have an HD file, and although I have a better quality file than this one, you can't upload and override a previous file. Instead it comes in as a whole new file, with a chance all the 700 old comments will be deleted.
@@sallycruikshank You should get in touch with the people from @deafcrocodile. They release a lot of cult animation on blu ray and your work is legendary. It really deserves to be seen in the best possible quality to appreciate all the amazing detail!
"You don't need to take acid to have weird thoughts and imagine weird things".
Ain't it the truth!
@@sallycruikshank Indeed! All you need to have are weird dreams and a vivid imagination!
Pure genius - I LOVE this! Haven't seen Quasi since the '70's - thanks!!!
For some strange reason, Quasi feels like a character I've known since my childhood and he emanates some kind of warmth, the strangest part is that this is the first time I've become aware of his existence. I'm amazed something like this can happen.
This is one of my favorite animated short films ever, and one of the the inspirations for my interest in animation. Thank you Sally, and thank you Quasi!
Thanks. Stay inspired!
as of july 2024 this is captivates me like all your works have during my youth. im grateful they are on youtube and that you read and respond to so many comments. much love
Thanks for your nice, nice message. Cheered me up.
Oh wow, I saw this back in the 70's when I was in college, and I NEVER forgot it. So very glad to see it again, and now that I'm an animator myself, I'm even more amazed by it. Brilliant.
We first saw this in a theater when i was a kid. We got a poster there and you signed it for us. We still have it! Later my parents managed to obtain the 16mm reel of it, which we also still have! Just thought to look you up on TH-cam and here you are. Thank you for your art, which has been so important in my life (Face Like a Frog is another favorite).
That's so nice. Now the poster sells for $500! The 16mm print is probably faded though. Thanks for your lovely comment.
I am 25 and came here to watch this video again and write almost this exact statement. Your work is an inspiration that has had a wide spread influence on many artists, thank you so much for making these videos available.
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"What did you say your name was?"
" QWA-ZEE! >:V" *smacks forehead*
Once upon a time I took my boss on a date to an animation festival in Cambridge. We've been married 30 years and she still occasionally whines "Quasi..." at me. We were SO EXCITED to read in the newspaper today that Quasi was inducted into the National Film Registry.
Congrats, Sally, and thank you so much for posting your film here for us to watch.
The one and only time I saw the Twilight Zone movie on TV as a kid, the animated sequence was instantly seared onto my consciousness forever. I'm so glad I came back to investigate it in later years and found this channel. Now I adore this masterpiece. Thank you so much for sharing your unique, funny, startling imagination with us! Quasi lives!
This makes me very happy, thank you!
Sally, you are fantastic, absolutely fantastic!!
Thank you, thank you Fernando.
Did Sally Cruikshank predict the future, because Quasi is totally watching youtube in the beginning....
+cosmosblue772 Ha! Love your comment!
No! He was watching by a spreadable tv
Sally, this is brilliant! I can't believe I haven't stumbled upon this short before! Thanks for sharing!
I am so thankful. I watched this growing up
That's nice, thanks.
@@sallycruikshank you are most certainly welcome. God bless you.
I originally saw this on the USA network during an episode of NightFlight. I fell in love with it immediately.
I guess we're never seeing quasi ever again, Rest in peace....
Still a classic. Something that I'm enraptured by with this cartoon, that I don't think I've ever seen put into words, is the fact that it's set in this colorful and whimsical wonderland, with so many scenes focused on exposing the darker, adult nature of the characters. Winky's perversion, Quasi's childlike wish to harm his friends, and of course Anita and Rollo's straight-up abandonment of Quasi, all given opportunity to be expressed through a theme park. It might not even really hit you just how wonderfully rotten these characters are, at least from what I see. Truly a cartoon that has it all!
I just absolutely love your analysis of my cartoon. Whew, spot on!
Wow! I saw this in Petaluma, CA at an arty theater downtown - sometime around 1975/76 - with my friend Tasha, whose boyfriend (Lonnie) played bass in the Steve Miller Band. Just thought of this film during a sleepless night a few days ago. Brings back a lot of fond memories of those long-ago times...
Thanks for making this, and thanks for posting this work!
That's really great. I remember that theatre I think, and know the feeling of sleepless nights all too well lately.
this was awesome. reminded me of my favorite movie yellow submarine alot. poor quasi! I hope he's doing well in dinosaur times:')
Thanks. He's doing just fine.
Great stuff..saw it 30 years ago and it still makes me happy!
This takes me back. I found this cartoon very interesting and unique as a kid.
Thanks Daniel.
How have I lived this long without knowing about this?????
This is the most amazing thing I've seen in a while!
Wow! as an aspiring underground animator this is it! Really shows what incredible metaphysical potential lies in the animated form. Thanks Sally
I got this movie from the Public Library back in 1983 or 82, when I lived in Iowa City , Iowa, I just thought about Quasi, and looked it up on Google, because I was telling someone about the Animation, and here in 2022 you can look this movie up on your phone, the only hitch was googles robot kept spitting out Quasi at the Darrell, not hearing Quackadarro. I LOVE all these movies
Cool memory, thanks!
I remember seeing this during Cartoon Networks 100 greatest cartoons back in the 90s. It sort of disturbed me in a way as a kid, but it also stuck with me. It's definitely one of the more interesting cartoons I've seen.
Thanks!
This is amazing! I am obsessed with these kinds of funky animations. So intriguing, well done!
Thanks joy!
i love showing this to my friends!!! thank you for keeping this page up sally!❤❤
Glad it makes you happy!
It took me at least an hour to watch this, every couple of seconds I had to pause to enjoy the shapes and the distance between them. Thank you for doing your best from the bottom of my heart
yeah, don't worry- people have been assuming that about me for a very long time, incorrectly. Doesn't bother me. I think art in the 70's was generally influenced by drug experiments, whether or not you were the one who took them. A different pov in those days.
Animation is an incredibly tough discipline, even with computers. One cannot animate when drunk or high, in the same way that one cannot drive a car when drunk or high. Well, you can, but you won't like the results the next day. And with animation, you won't have killed anyone. Well, not much.
@@beckoning-chasmyou shouldn’t drive a car while playing the violin either!
Thanks Sally for giving me one of my visual joys. I'm 65 now, and loved this piece and the artwork of Peter Max from the beginning. While I sit here contemplating hanging Christmas lights, my mental Rolodex of sight and sound stopped at Quadi at the Quackadero, and I had to stop to take a step back and smile at a better time. You're an inspiration to never accept the limits of the box, and to always think your way out of it.
@@larrye.jackson7487 Thanks for this really nice message. All the best to you!
The funny thing is that the creeps/smiles effect is exactly what I was trying to do.
In this day and age, it doesn't even occur to people that a great cartoon can be created without a huge team of animators. The work you put into this shows, and will only impress people MORE as time goes by.
It's still superb after all these years. A thanks goes to not only you Cruikshank for making it but also to the National Film Registry for introducing me to it.
Thank you @misterjj that's so nice of you!
You're most welcome. It's important for artists to know that their work is greatly appreciated.@@sallycruikshank
@@misterjj I like your attitude. I see so many artists creating great things and they're barely noticed. Jasper Johns is an artist whose work especially annoys me.
I've heard that name but must check out his work. Thanks for the recommendation. I'm not sure what your music tastes are but there was a great band out of Melbourne called Models.@@sallycruikshank
Every time I rewatch this, I keep forgetting how much I enjoy it. Truly one of the high points of humanity
Yikes, thanks.
Sally Cruikshank wow. You responded to little ole me. This moment is going up there on my list of best moments in my life.
@@ProfCoolio some times I get comments I really want to reply to, but when I hit the reply button from email the comment has vanished.
Sally Cruikshank regardless, you really made my day.
Oh my god, I have been looking for this forever!!!!! I love Quasi!
Listening to one of Terence Mckenna’s interviews (his last interview in 1999 actually) and he recommended this animation! This must’ve been right up his alley, he loved art and animation.
It's amazing to me that so many people have seen this because of T. McKenna's interviews. I wish I'd known him.
OMG!!!! My brother and i would watch this all the time when we where sooo little! i haven't seen it in almost 15 years i'm now 24, lol
Back in the early 1980s when I was in the Navy, we had several short 16mm reels of these cartoons, courtesy of AAFES. We were moving from an onboard television film chain system to video tape and I recorded all the reels to video tape. I found these cartoons strangely compelling and would schedule them between shows (ships at sea have no advertising) whenever possible.
My gosh, that is truly amazing. Thanks for telling me about this!
@@sallycruikshank Thank you for leaving such a great mark on me!
Directed here by a Terence McKenna interview, and my god am I grateful to have been turned onto your work! What an incredible feat. I'll be marveling at these for years to come
This was just incredible! I first heard of this cartoon when I was a lad, around 1995 or 1996, when I bought a book called "The 50 Greatest Cartoons." The 10 plus years looking for it did not end in disappointment! Thank you for posting everything on TH-cam, I'm sorry I've missed your work all this time!
I first knew of this short thanks to Jerry Beck's "The 50 Greatest Cartoons" and I gotta say, after finally watching it, I definitely agree with its inclusion!
Well thanks very much!
The local sports talk radio host here in Tallahassee (of all people) was discussing this today on his podcast. He absolutely raved about it.
Mike West, that's a wonderful story, Send me his name and radio show name and I'll surprise him with a free cel
@@sallycruikshank the Jeff Cameron show. 97.9 ESPN Radio in Tallahassee, Florida.
@@mikewest5796 thanks so much!
I hadn't seen this since the mid-80's. Wow, now I remember why I liked it so much!
aww, nice, thanks!
I saw this 30 years ago too, as a student in California. So many details stuck in my mind! Great to find it again.
Ms. Cruikshank, I just want to offer you the same praise I once offered Bill Plympton: your work scarred me as a child. This may sound like a complaint, but I thank you for it. My first experience with Quasi At The Quackadero came with Cartoon Network's "The 50 Greatest Cartoons of All Time" and it was wholly unlike anything else I'd seen up to that point. Everything had such a whimsical, surreal, dreamlike quality to it, yet there was a recurring streak of existential dread running through it. The scene with the time holes was the most existentially terrifying thing I had ever encountered up until that point in my young life.
Thank you for creating this true masterpiece of animated cinema and for the seeds it planted in me, which have since blossomed into the weird, wonderful person I am today. Without the works of true artists such as yourself, I'd probably be just another nameless, faceless gear in the machine of this world.
Hi ChineseTonyDanza, thank you for this intriguing comment. I understand what you are saying about existential dread, (at least I think I do), but no one has ever said anything like that about it before.
My sister, who is obsessed with your animations, showed me this along with a few others the other day while we were hanging out. Didn't think I'd be watching them again voluntarily but here I am, and it's GREAT
Haha, thanks. Say hello to your sister for me!
I saw this at a midnight movie back in the day. Nice to see it when I can remember what I was watching! Superior.
Glad you found your way back to the Quackadero, cheers.
@@sallycruikshank Merry Christmas, Ms. Cruikshank, an honor and a thrill to hear from you. Best wishes!
@@BillyDBunny Same to you!
The music was composed and performed by Robert Armstrong and Allan Dodge.
Glad you have the films on TH-cam I love your art
Thanks!
Saw this at a little coffeehouse theater circa 1980. Had to give it a standing ovation. Wonderfully quirky experience.
Thanks. I wonder if it was Off the Wall in Boston?
one of the best and most entertaining cartoons of all time.
Congratulations Sally on Quasi being named to The National Film Registry!
I first saw it on Night Flight around 1982 while I was in college. Thanks for posting it here so I can see it again :-)
NO WAY! I found this... way cool, this is SO bizzare!
I too saw this at a film festival... mid 70's. I love the womans voice.
THANK YOU!
Wow I don't know if I just watched something or I dreamed I did but its well earned its spot on the 50 greatest cartoons list
This is not getting enough attention. With today's technology this could be a massive hit, again.
I saw this way back when at "Off the Wall Cinema" a tiny cafe in Cambridge Mass. that showed short films, I was always excited to see a Sally Cruikshank film there. So happy to have found you here. 😍
Rally Truly, I wish so much I had visited "Off the Wall". They were such big boosters of my films. So many people have written me about how great that café was. And only a few years before I was in misery at Smith College in Northampton.
I can't remember where I first saw this and heard of Sally Cruikshank. It might have been at my college in the early 80s or perhaps as a short before one of Susan Seidelman's films at an art house in Boston? In any case, I do remember how amazed and delighted I was. I'd never seen anything like it and how I wanted to see more. Now, finally, I can. I just ordered the DVD and look forward to sharing it with my kids (who are about to turn 17). I think they'll be as gobsmacked as I was. Yay!
Thanks Andrew! Maybe at the coffee house "Off the Wall"? Thanks for buying my dvd. I'll mail it to you tomorrow.
Thank you, Sally! I've been enjoying the DVD so much - and my kids do, too! What is the music that plays when on the Menu page? It goes through my head all the time now!
That's nice. It's an excerpt from the dream reader sequence. I kind of regret using that because such a short clip repeats so much.
Hi Sally, I just did a research essay about you for animation school, and I just wanted to say that your work is extremely inspiring. Thank you so much for everything you have done, and I hope you're doing well!
Amanda, thank you for your lovely, lovely message. Stay inspired! Best, Sally
I saw this for the first time in the late 70's at an animation festival in Santa Cruz and I've never forgotten it! Sally, I love your style, your imagination, your artwork, and the whole package you create: the music, voices, humor...thanks for making animation that is so thrilling, colorful and funny!
Thanks for your ultra nice comment, Makaleha718!
My co-worker three times my age showed me this and it's become our favorite thing to watch at work. With permission I'm hoping to get a Quasi tattoo. Thanks for your inspiring work Sally!
Thanks Cameron. Of course you can use any image of mine for a tattoo.
@@sallycruikshank I got the tattoo! Is there an email I can use to who the result? Thanks again for permission to get it done.
@@cameronmee7634 With gmail I'm funonmars@
I loved this 30 years ago when I used to see it on Night Flight, and, despite my maturity, I love this still. Great stuff!
This is what you call a work of fine art
Thank you.
This definitely reminds me a lot of the early, bizarre Van Beurens from the early 1930s...
I love those cartoons, thanks
I remember seeing this cartoon, shortly after it was released, probably in Pasadena or South Pasadena. It was a hallmark of the time and a pleasure to see today. Thank you, Sally for the creativity.
And thanks for remembering it, David Drake.
Sally Cruikshank thank you for making cartoons cool for awhile.
Thanks, Jebo-
Bizarre, strange, completely devoid of any sense of reality. I absolutely love it. It also reminds me a lot of Ralph Bakshi's work in the early '70s (i.e. "Heavy Traffic").
My cousins & I first saw this cartoon in the 80s on TV (probably a public access channel) in Southern CA - it was late at night & we were flipping through channels. We were equal parts intrigued, troubled, and electrified. For years we joked about the National Vegetable Convention & naked carrots, but we couldn't track down the source. Flash forward to about 5-6 years ago, when I did some googling and lucked out in finding an online listing for a cel, then found this link. We made it back to the Quackadero! Whoo hoo!
Last year we did a group watch via Zoom & I have referred to the 3 of us as the Sisterhood of the Quackadero. Every watch still intrigues, troubles & electrifies me. As my cousin says, "Thank you, Sally Cruikshank, for another banger!"
Cheers for the Sisterhood! Great comment, thanks!
Sally, thanks...just watching again as a way of grounding myself after a challenging few weeks and find that Quasi makes me feel so happy...somehow as elemental as air and water.
New appreciation for the soundtrack, too.
I have seen Quasi in the 70'
At some cartoon festival here in Italy, still remembered it
so today I found it here.
now youtube is working as time machine
More rad than just about anything. Saw it 35 years ago and have never forgotten it. And such credentials! Kim Deitch? Cheap Suit Serenaders? Is there a sequel?!
Hey, thanks. Well, my cartoon "Make Me Psychic" has many of same talents in the wings.
Sally Cruikshank There is! There is a sequel! I had no idea. It's fantastic.
I'm so glad this is online, I left my Quazi DVD in some odd place and can't find it...! this saved me, whew..
It's like Betty Boop meets Yellow Submarine
my dad showed this to me like 15 years ago, and no one in our family really got it at all, but he was a film minor in the late 70's or early 80's and i guess was trying to show us what was hip at the time. anyway, he and i both still sometimes exclaim "Rollo!"
Just marvelous! As fresh as when I initially saw it in the seventies at an animation festival in San Francisco, where I was completely blown away first by the hilarious title and inspired music, then of course by the characters, voices and animation. (I'd been looking for this; glad I found it again on this site.)
+salodaysofsodom Thank you, nice way to start the day.
Thanks, the guys who ran Off the Wall did so much to push the popularity of this short along.
I love absolutely every video on your channel. This may be my favorite singular cartoon ever and it’s such an endless joy. Thank you for all the absolutely wonderful work you’ve done!
Wow, that's really nice, Dr. Teeth! Thank you!
I just wanted to say that I love your work!
Oh thank you thank you thank you.
Thanks so much for posting this. I've been looking for this video since the early 80's. I couldn't get Quasi's "past lives" out of my head saying "Hello, Quasi". :-) Sally Cruikshank is an absolute genius.
This is amazing. I don't know how I have never heard of this artist. This stuff was absolutely revolutionary.
thank you thank you thank you!
The music, absolutely!
Sometimes I get some of your tunes stuck in my head and I have to come watch your video again! :-)