Animated Movie From the Late 70s
With a picture inside of a picture inside of a picture.
Opinion page by Duane Alan Hahn.
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I watched an animated movie on my parent's black and white TV in the late 1970s that had a scene where there was a picture inside of a picture inside of a picture. In my fading memory over time, I still remembered that there was some kind of creature on the left side, but I thought the creature was within a mirror within a mirror within a mirror.
I tried to look it up various times over the years with no luck. I thought it might have been Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure since it was one of the animated movies I remembered watching on TV in the late 1970s. After skipping through the movie on YouTube a few times, I couldn't find the scene.
On May 6 or 7 of 2023, I decided to do another search. For my first try, I put this in the search bar:
1970s animation “picture within a picture”
That led me to a link that talked about the Droste effect. For my second try, I put this in the search bar:
1970s “animation” Droste effect
One of the results was a reddit thread where somebody had the answer. The film is called The Mouse and His Child. I thought the movie was kind of weird and boring back in the late 1970s, but the Droste effect scene seemed important. I didn't know what a fractal was at the time, but it's like the scene brings out some kind of fractal truth from inside of you when you watch it for the first time as a child. You know it's important and has something to do with everything.
The embedded video below should automatically jump to the scene when you play it.
People have been leaving comments under the Last Visible Dog clip at YouTube in case you are interested.
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