Monday, 24 November 2025

No Longer An Aardvark

The witch in the Fractured Fairy Tales version of “Hansel and Gretel” has only one power. She can turn boys into aardvarks.

She agrees to change Hansel back if Gretel teaches her how to fly. Edward Everett Horton narrates to us Gretel did and the witch kept her word. Here’s the conversion animation. Stylised, on twos and threes.



This cartoon was animated for Jay Ward by Sam Nicholson/Gerry Ray’s TV Spots. Alex Anderson wrote the story, as revealed by Keith Scott in his fine book The Moose That Roared

1 comment:

  1. One of the truly great ones, except the French-talking duck makes a grammatic error. It's not "Nous avons arrives," it's "Nous sommes arrives." (Clearly the duck never met Mrs. Vandertramp, whom everybody who took French in high school knows.) It's fun to see the individual frames of the aardvark changing back to Hansel.

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