Sally Cruikshank Films
Director
laughingsal
Style: Art
Joined: 22 May 2006
Last Sign In: 1 week ago
Videos Watched: 724
Subscribers: 526
Channel Views: 21,951
My intention is to get all my films on youtube, including the many songs I animated for Sesame Street between 1989 and 2000. Visit my web site if you'd like to purchase a DVD of all my cartoons. (Not Sesame Street) I usually ship them out the same day or next day.

Lately, when I try to answer your emails, youtube runs into problems and they don't go through. As for sharing videos, it all starts to get too complicated for me so I don't do it-- please don't take it personally!
Name: Sally
I animated or directed all the videos on my channel. I think youtube and brightcove are great new forms of entertainment, and I'm happy to share all the animation I've done with a new audience. I sell a dvd of my work at my website.
City: Northridge, CA
Hometown: Chatham, NJ
Country: United States
Occupation: Animating off and on for 35 years!
University/College/School: Smith College grad, then San Fra...
Interests and Hobbies: I raise chickens as pets, have a retired horse named Pepper, and an amazing German Shepherd. She takes lessons in agility and sheep herding.
Films and Shows: Biggest influence on my cartoons would be the Max Fleischer cartoons and Busby Berkeley musicals.
Music: Does anyone want the 200 pounds of 78 records that are still in my closet? I collected music from the 20's and 30's for a long time, but now I never spin these ancient shellac circles.
Books: Two favorite authors: Barbara Comyns, a weird 20th century British author who no one seems to have read, and T.C. Boyle, who's never as good as he could be. Lately I've been reading more mysteries, and Western History. I loved Larry McMurtry's "Lonesome Dove."
Website: http://www.funonmars.com
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Channel Comments (57)
weatherboxlisp (1 day ago)
Thanks for your kind response Sally, it's really nice that you still nurture your fans. Have you seen the music videos for Chad Van Gaalen? They really are immeasurably good. He's a great talent. I think you might like them. Thanks again for your wonderful work.
weatherboxlisp (6 days ago)
Your videos are so glorious. I just want to heap superlatives on you 'til the cows come home but they have a home and you are it.
laughingsal (2 weeks ago)
Thanks for these nice nice comments. glad so many of you are going down memory lane and having a good time there. the song in fun on mars is "sweeping the clouds away" sung by Charles buddy rogers.
realhorrorshow (3 weeks ago)
Thank you so much for putting all your work up on YouTube! For years all I've had was a copy of Quasi I recorded off the TV and the memories of your Sesame Street sketches. Now I can watch them all :)
LynnyM (1 month ago)
I grew up in the 90's and when I was very small I would watch a lot of Sesame Street. These animations where among my favorites, especially Above It All, and to this day it delights me to watch them, especially now, finding this Channel through YouTube. The art is amazing. Emotion is very important to me as an artist and this may be why I'm so thrilled with these animations---they are so wiggly with all kinds of feelings and energy.

So thanks...these animations have stayed with a lot of kids through their lives =)
jokester1111 (1 month ago)
i saw the i need this thing song in spanish.
CaptainHusky (2 months ago)
your stuff is brilliant , I adore the surrealism .
FormerlyFlightsuit (2 months ago)
At some point, when I was maybe ten or eleven years old, I was awarded a scholarship to attend The Poetry Film Workshop, which taught young kids to make animated films. My studies there lead to my creation of a cut-out paper-animated, Super 8mm epic. It depicted the adventures of an anthropomorphic frog whose appearance was heavily influenced by your drawings of Quasi Duck and the various magical creatures who populated his world.

Anyway, the fact that I've found your channel means my being on YouTube at 1:00AM isn't the pointless waste of time it would normally be. Mom's still up, so I'm gonna go tell her you've got a presence on YouTube, which is something she'll get a kick out of hearing.

Kind Regards,

FlightSuit
FormerlyFlightsuit (2 months ago)
Omigod, I can't believe I've stumbled across a YouTube channel that's all yours! I was just a child when my mother took me to see some animation festival (I don't even recall which one, or where, exactly, the screening took place), and I saw Quasi Duck for the first time.

"Quasi at the Quackadero" and "Make Me Psychic" were huge inspirations to my twisted young mind, and contributed to my producing such strange visual art that my teachers and classmates thought I'd gotten a really early head-start experimenting with drugs.
pentherapy (2 months ago)
Wow, I've never seen this kind of stuff before. You're very talented, and I'll certainly be watching more of your stuff in the future.
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