Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland Pilot (1984)

GriefSeedling Feb 4, 2020

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Check it out, especially if you're interested in analog animation of water and flight or the bumpy production history of Little Nemo. It has much higher animation quality and a faster pace than what would become the final movie. Nemo rides his flying bed through the night skies after being coaxed out of his bedroom by a boy pilot. The nameless boy flies a Wright Brothers-esque plane and guides Nemo through the city resulting in a fabulous action sequence and gives us a taste of what could have been, if Kondo had remained on the project. I was lucky enough to see a screening of this pilot as a part of an exhibit on Yoshifumi Kondo that came to the Hamamatsu City Art Museum while I was living in the area. (You can just find it online though.)