In sharp contrast to the happy days of the sixties stands the films of Ralph Bakshi. Suddenly the merry life of love and pills turned flipped and the other side of the coin was not that innocent. Fritz The Cat, based on Robert Crumbs comics, made a humorous deep dive into the dark side...

 

In his next film, the somewhat autobiographical "Heavy Traffic", the story is even darker and not funny....

 

 

 

A lot of clay animation appeared in the seventies. Will Winton refined the possibilities of having the advantages of both puppet animation with 3 dimensions and hand drawn with squash and stretch. The first film was "Closed Mondays".

 

This is eight years later...

 

 

In Russia Yurij Norstein made a handful of cut-out animations with a Russian temperament. Beautiful tales like "Hedgehog in the Fog"

 

 

 

At The National Film Board of Canada Caroline Leaf made some beautiful films with sand on a glass plate with light from below. She handled complicated stories with a light hand. Like in "The Street".

 

 

 

Other NFB films were "Special Delivery" by Weldon and Eunice Macaulay...

 

...and "Every Child" by Eugene Fedorenko.

 

 

 

In Italy Bruno Bozetto made "Allegro non Troppo", a feature length programme of illustrated classical music. Much like, or rather, a parody of Fantasia...