While Ray Harryhausen is best known for his excellent work in live-action movies like "Jason and the Argonauts" and the original "Clash of the Titans", I think that his early animated shorts deserve recognition too.
"The Story of King Midas" is a very charming and well made animation which makes a great work adapting an old fable. Like the Walt Disney Silly Symphony cartoon from 1935, "The Golden Touch" this short changes the setting of the story, making it happen in Medieval Europe, but the result is effective anyway.
Unlike in other adaptations of the story, the entity who grants King Midas wish to turn everything what he touches into gold seems to be a dark and even malevolent, but at the end, the plot is resolved in the same way than the original fable.
This is a cute animation, appropriate for viewers of all ages, which I recommend to anyone.
8.5/10
"The Story of King Midas" is a very charming and well made animation which makes a great work adapting an old fable. Like the Walt Disney Silly Symphony cartoon from 1935, "The Golden Touch" this short changes the setting of the story, making it happen in Medieval Europe, but the result is effective anyway.
Unlike in other adaptations of the story, the entity who grants King Midas wish to turn everything what he touches into gold seems to be a dark and even malevolent, but at the end, the plot is resolved in the same way than the original fable.
This is a cute animation, appropriate for viewers of all ages, which I recommend to anyone.
8.5/10