The Sound Collector

  • Animation
11/10/1982
12

Storyline

This animated short features Leonard, a 6-year-old boy with the unusual hobby of collecting sounds. Transforming household noises around him into exciting fantasies, he creates an adventure story for his older brother in which knights chase away monsters and perform other daring deeds.

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      Reviews

      • Geronimo1967

        Theres something quite unnerving about the almost double-jointed style of creature animation here, but the story is quite good fun. With the rain pouring down outside, the young Leonard is trying to engage his elder brother in a game of sounds. He has quite an imagination this young lad, and by using the routine sounds around their house manages to conjure up a story of a knight who encounters a vampire who needs to go to the dentist but is a bit frightened of a lion. Or, is that really just some pots and pans, a food mixer, a bee and some sea shells. Its a charming testament to life before television did all of our imagining for us; to a time when we could look at the clouds and see faces or animals. The narrator sums up quite nicely a rap...

        June 15, 2025