A new film by Brandon Dziokonski blends animation with recycled footage from old Smokey the Bear public service anouncements.
A three-year-old recites Billy Collins — another reminder that YouTube is still a vast repository of wonderfulness if you can only find it among all the dross. Fortunately, this one has gone viral. The mother says in a comment,
Billy Collins did see this and wrote a letter to my son and I. We feel very honored.
Thank you all for your kind comments. We are working on a few new poems I hope to have up very soon. If there are any suggestions as to poems you think might be good ones for him to memorize, let me know! I will consider them, if he likes them too.
Here’s Collins himself introducing and reading the poem, in a selection from Fora.TV:
Lindsey Butler directed, with narration by Nicholas Chichirda. Nice to see such a fine videopoem of Collins’ work that isn’t one of the canonical (and authorized) animations.
Lauren Adolfsen spliced together some footage from old McDonald’s commercials to make a new video for Billy Collins’ poem. This uses the same audio as the animation by Juan Delcan, which was one of the 11 videopoems authorized by the poet. I am not sure he’d approve of this one, but it definitely changes the way I think of the poem.
Another in the popular series of animated Billy Collins poems produced by JWT-NY. This one’s by Brady Baltezore. Purely as a cartoon, I think it might be the most satisfying of the lot.
Billy Collins reads his poem “The Dead” with animation by Juan Delcan of Spontaneous.
A new Billy Collins vidpo that isn’t an animation! The use of Cat’s Cradle imagery was an inspired match for the text, I thought. Hilla Katki is the filmmaker.
