The Little Island

2/17/2024

Richard Williams did all but make the tea on the visual side of this, with Tristram Cary doing all of the audio (with some help from the Sinfonia of London) and we are presented with a simple but lively line animation that depicts just how three little men must believe in one thing, and one thing only. Truth. Beauty. Good. They journey to a tiny island, shaded by just one large tree, and arrive with just the clothes they stand up in. Energetically exploring for a few seconds they then get shot of their clothes and the sun soon changes their naked skin tone and what appears to be a rather repetitious existence sets in! It reminded me little of one of those coconut shell games at first - I couldn't recall which little creature was meant to be believing in what, but as we muddle along that be