dog food label....
That dog food label has tweaked my mind since I was a child. I still have dreams about it...
That dog food label has tweaked my mind since I was a child. I still have dreams about it...
Me too. This movie has tweaked my mind my whole life and I didn't know what it was or anyone who knew what I was talking about. I am so relieved that I was able to re-discover this movie just about a week ago. It truly is a powerful movie. I have no idea how old I was when I first saw it.
What about the scene where Manny smashes the mice shortly after the label scene, and winces at the damage he caused? That scene always stuck with me.
I remember seeing the movie about 20 years ago (I was around 4 or 5 yrs old) on the Disney Channel. I loved it because it was dark and sad and not really for children. But the ONLY actual scene I remembered was the Can with the dog on it holding a can with a dog on it holding a can with a dog on it..... etc while someone (the mouse) was talking about infinity. I live in Chicago...which has ALOT of cult, rare, and obscure Movie stores...and not one place carries it, let alone knows about it.
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go on ebay and type in "The Mouse and His Child" and you will find someone who has it. if not the movie, the story on cassette tape or the book.
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Oh my god! What does that say about our memories as children? My only memory of the film is also the dog food label. I tried to explain it to people and they thought I was mad! Hope to find a copy soon. . .
sharesomebody posted the entire film on youtube.com. I watched the whole thing and it freaked me out all over again, and we're talking 20 years later here. Dog food label, and the scene where the rat smashed the main characters, and the donkey getting ripped apart, stuff that's been giving me nightmares for 20 years. lol.
shareLOL! Only on this board could you post a message titled "dog food label" and have people know what the hell you're talking about. :) I too was tormented by this image in many nightmares as a child and thought I must have dreamed this bizarre image. I watched it on youtube a while back but mostly just skimmed through it. I'll need to sit down and watch the whole thing one of these days...during the day...and with one of my Care Bears nearby. ;)
shareI *knew* I wasn't the only one...
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I remember having seen "some animated movie" a long long long time ago in the downstairs living room, anywhere from 20 to 25 years, and I remember watching repeatedly.
The only details I remember was that the movie wasn't cheery, it had talking animals, and in an underwater scene there was a recursive dog food label that was very unsettling to me. I remember the zooming in, through the infinitely... lost to nothing but the same image over and over, and the eventual rip at the end.
That was it.
Only today after a boatload of searching for titles of other things I've seen on television that I only have the barest remembrance of (the last being the sitcom "Jennifer Slept Here"), I finally came across the title of this film.
And my jaw hung open when I saw this thread.
... The fact that the original post was put up right on my 30th birthday is also feeling weird to me right now.
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I just wanted to note that I had the exact same experience. All I remembered was the dog food label and the fact that they were toys. Totally weird, I wonder why so many of us remember that one strange scene??? There must be something psychological going on there!
shareI'm with you all also. I started to watch this after over 20 years now on youtube, but didnt' get through it, but the dog food label. Everytime I was in a department store that had two facing mirrors, it reminded me of this film my entire life.
shareI actually just got done watching the movie after not seeing it for about 20 years or so. I remember the dog label scene and Manny destroying the mice the most after all these years. The dog label scene, actually the whole scene where the mice are talking to the turtle about infinity and than the mouse child tries counting to infinity with the label going on and on with the creepy music is something that has never left my head. Really great film but I don't think kids have the attention span now-a-days to have an understanding of the movie and the philosophy in the writing.
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This is a scene that doesn't necessarily hit children, as I was in my late 20s when I saw the film. I swear that there isn't a month goes by that the memory of that label doesn't cross my mind for one reason or another. I haven't seen this movie since it aired in the late Seventies on HBO, but I do remember bits and pieces, enough to wish that I could see it again. It's a very haunting film, with so much depth that one would expect it to appeal only to a certain age group, certainly not very young children. So, it tells us a great deal that children who saw this film DO remember it, even if only that admittedly eerie, mesmerizing scene.
So, here's an older person who joins you in your memory! Only, I was old enough that I did not have to search for the title, as it's deeply imprinted in my mind. I'd like to find out if the voices I remember ring true, particularly the father mouse's voice.
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It's strange, I looked up the persons that voiced the "Mouse" and his "Child". The two actors don't seem to have done much else other than this film.
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They would have to be proud that something they were in made such lasting impressions on people. Marcy Swenson did only this film! Mr. Barzman also was in "The Point", so that's a double victory. However, it's sad that neither of these films is shown.
I plan to pop over to YouTube to see if there are any clips or, best of all, the complete movie.
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I was probably 5 or 6 the first time I saw this movie. That dog food can managed to explain infinity to my very young mind. There are a lot of things that this movie embedded in my life... a lot of beliefs that still carry with me today.
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That is completely strange... I'm 28 and I just recently remembered the dog food label scene as well... but nothing else. I was driving me crazy, but I finally found someone else talking about it when i googled it. I typed the title into IMDB and the very first posting on the message board is "dog food label". Very creepy that so many people are just remembering that one part.
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