Saturday, September 27, 2008

Saturday Morning Cartoon: Foxbusters...plus Nazibusters and Deathstarbusters


"Foxbusters" (pilot) (1999), directed by David Freedman and Alan Gilbey, produced by Cosgrove Hall Productions, based on the book by Dick King-Smith. More info about the cartoon.

I was pleased to recognize that the main music in the chicken-bombing sequences as one of my favorite pieces of British light music, the title theme to 633 Squadron, the great 1964 film whose bombing sequence inspired the trench attach in Star Wars:


Which of course, is as good a reason as any to post this delightful mash-up:


So. Chickens!


1 comment:

Evan Waters said...

I thought it was THE DAM BUSTERS that really influenced the trench scene (somebody's done a mash up of that, too.) Though it could have been both.