Richard Condie is a Canadian animator and film maker. Here is a description of The Big Snit from Richard Condie’s website:
“The film begins with a maddening game of Scrabble between husband and wife. When the husband has trouble putting words together, the wife leaves to vacuum the bathroom from floor to ceiling. The husband falls asleep during an announcement by a radiated-skeleton of a newscaster that a nuclear war has begun. He does, however, wake in time to see the outside world in mayhem, but mistakes it for a passing parade. He then slides back over to the Scrabble board attempting to eye his wife’s letters but is caught before the deed is done. Bickering soon ensues, and gradually swells, parallel to the madness outside their window, into an apocalypse of their own.
It is a quick glimpse at an old photograph of the couple in love that brings the husband to fond memories of the days when life was good and his eye-shaking wife did not annoy him. After a failed attempt to bring his wife to calm, the husband remembers a fool-proof way back into her heart, the accordion. And it is the husband’s accordion serenade that finds these two lovers in bliss once again. And they step outside their front door, two souls holding hands together, unaware that the world has come to an end.”
Geoff from JazzPianoCafe recently made a post about Condie’s film and encouraged me to share the the film here as well. It has been a long time since I last saw the film and I thank Geoff for bringing it to my attention again. The film was put out by The National Film Board of Canada.1
The Big Snit was nominated for both an Oscar and a Genie award, and won multiple International awards. Visit the Wikipeida page on Richard Condie as a starting place to learn more about Richard Condie and his work.
Notes
- The National Film Board of Canada has help produce and distributed many amazing animated works over the course of the organization’s lifetime, some of which I hope to highlight in upcoming posts.
