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Poster for 200 (1975)

200 (1975)

1975 · Animation · 3 min · dir. Vincent Collins

  • Animation
  • Short
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Synopsis

This trippy tribute to our country's 200th birthday was funded by a Bicentennial Project Grant and animated by Vincent Collins who made other psychedelic cartoons. This film was produced by the United States Information Agency -the government's propaganda agency.

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Director
Vincent Collins
Running time
3 minutes

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Reviews on the Internet Archive

★★★★★ · Lemme get out my red, white and blue tie-dye... · Wilford B. Wolf · 2005-07-28

"Bicentennial" (aka "200") is pure 1970s psychedilia. The designs remind me strongly of Peter Max and Yellow Submarine. This short film is a series of flag and other American symbol motifs, almost done to abstraction. Interesting bits include the remenants of the hippie culture (the Woodstock logo, the flag shaped around a peace sign) contrasted with the symbols of mainstream consumer culture (a cornacopia spewing out cars, tvs, hamburgers, and hot dogs). Washington crossing the Delaware becomes a Fauvist riot of color. While trying to use all the American symbols it becomes a oblique…

★★★★★ · best piece of american propaganda ever! · mateh · 2005-12-14

beautiful, simple; all that is the epitome of america with an pyschedelically artistic twist.

★★★★ · Warning: May Cause Seizures · Karma Hawk · 2005-04-09

The alternative title I was considering was "Warning: This film goes Nowhere." Anyway let's get down to buisness: This is a short trippy, psychedelic montoge of americana images (only funkified because hey...it WAS the seventies) anyway these images have a habit of flashing rapidly so be forwarned.

★ · Nixon-Ford Plot · doowopbob · 2008-10-24

Government Plot To Hypnotize Viewers To Vote Republican! Paid For By The N.R.A & Jerry Falwell's Acid Dropping Grandmother!

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