The Calico Dragon

So, my appreciation and enjoyment of this lovely short animation is mainly due to the ingenious quilt-world design that is featured throughout, I found it so different and cute and charming. I mostly found the beginning part of it with the weird doll-faced girl reading just a little on the dull side, but things definitely perk up toward the ending as the cuddliest dragon ever shows up, I found him very interesting to look at and way too cuddly to be scary! The form of the dragon reminded me a little of that old stop-motion animated show Bagpuss, and that thing the dragon did with its tongue was so startling with the creepy noise of one of those funny paper birthday party whistle thingies! That foul lil' noise actually gave me a tiny chill and I'm supposed to be a grownup! Something that I found pretty amazing and enchanting about the ending was how the landscape and everything subtly changed back into the little girl's bed covers and toys, revealing everything to be the classic "just a dream" twist in the tale, I actually thought it was remarkably similar to what it's really like when you awaken from a dream as a child. I have never really come across another animation quite like this. Many of the best cartoons I've ever seen were made in the 1930s, and while I grant you that a lot of them weren't perfect, but the ones that really counted were pure animated magic! True animation art, and they are still 😊