ToonHeads "A Night of Independent Animation" (found special of Cartoon Network animation anthology series; 1996)

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Promo title card.

Status: Lost

Toonheads was an anthology series aired on Cartoon Network from 1992-2003. The series featured collections of many cartoons from various animators, usually with certain themes, and in between would feature trivia and background information about the cartoon playing.[1]

Details

In 1996 (a complete date is unknown), Toonhead's aired a special featuring winning shorts from ASIFA-East Animation Festival. The special went undocumented with few mentions online. This special was aired on a Saturday at 10:00 PM. It is entirely unknown exactly ALL of the shorts shown in the special, the following are the confirmed shorts seen by viewers, some of which are lost in their entirety. [2]

# Short Title Creator Description Status
1 "Another Bad Day for Philip Jenkins" Mo Williems Philip Jenkins is unwanted. He walks head down, sad, in suit, hat, and wire-rim glasses. In this nearly wordless animation, bad things happen to him. Lost
2 "Buy My Film!" John Schnall Selling oneself, living to animate vs animating to live, and good old-fashioned hucksterism. Found
3 "The Ballad of Archie Foley" Buzzco Associates A sentimental look at one man's life, as it passes before his ears. Found
4 "Unknown Title" Paul Fierlinger Unknown. Unidentified
5 "The Wire" Aaron Augenblick Unknown Lost

The "Plugman"

On January 23rd, 2019, a post was made to the LMW forums by James Calico. The post contained information about a short he had seen as a child, but didn't know the title, nor where it had come from. [3]

"One of the short films was so striking that it's stayed with me to this day almost 24 years later. It had a modern style of animation. It was very minimalist, done with just a few simple black lines that create shapes and impressions without details. A man in a suit sitting at a desk, a picture of his family on the desk. A Southern or African American narrator (He has a draw) talks about him and his life. The man finds a chord attached to his foot, and yanks on it. He's never noticed it before, but he notices it goes down the hallway. He follows it gathering it up as he walks. It leads him to an actual wall outlet where he's apparently plugged in. He pulls the plug from the wall, everything fades to white, and the narrator says something like "And no one ever heard from him again"."

Captain B. Zarre ended up bringing up a promo on Cartoon Network for A Night of Independent Animation. The original poster has not confirmed this to be it, but another user who had seen the short, 'Terry the Cat', recalled it looking as it did in the promo.

Toonheads Bumper

No title was mentioned in the promo, but a very small snippet of what could be scene of the shirt with a man pulling a plug from a socket.

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