''Short Circutz'' was a series of short
computer animated
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videos that were played between television shows on
YTV every weekend afternoon and evening from Saturday September 10, 1994 (coinciding with the premiere of
ReBoot
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) until Sunday September 1, 1996. YTV's Short Circutz continued one more year in
Canada
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from September 1996 until August 1997. Most videos were 30 to 120 seconds long, often played between other computer animated shows, such as ''
ReBoot
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'' and ''
Beasties''. The videos were all sampled from three film collections: ''
The Mind's Eye'', its sequel ''
Beyond the Mind's Eye'' and ''Imaginaria''. Some of the films were re-edited with alternate music, most notably replacing nearly all of the vocal songs used in the ''Imaginaria'' shorts.
List of shorts
There were a total of 32 shorts featured in Short Circutz:
*''Virtual Reality''
*''Seeds Of Life''
*''Afternoon Adventure''
*''Brave New World''
*''Transformers''
*''Too Far''
*''Windows''
*''Nothing But Love''
*''The Pyramid''
*''Theatre Of Magic''
*''Voyage Home''
*''Creation''
*''Civilization Rising''
*''Heart Of The Machine''
*''Technodance''
*''Post Modern''
*''
Love Found''
*''First Flight (Leaving The Bonds Of Earth)
*''The Temple''
*''Imaginaria''
*''Anything Is Possible''
*''Locomotion''
*''Pear People''
*''All Shapes & Sizes
*''Rubber Duckies''
*''Gourmet Records''
*''Night Magic''
*''Down The Road''
*''Lucy & Remo
*''Styro The Dog''
*''
More Bells and Whistles''
*''Going Home''
Trivia
*Footage from the
Laserdisc game ''
Cube Quest'' is used more often than footage from any other individual clip in the shorts. Some examples include the jungle tunnel in "Creation," the many tunnels in "All Shapes and Sizes" and the flying ship in "All Shapes and Sizes."
*"
More Bells and Whistles" is one of the earliest of
Wayne Lytle's productions; Lytle now produces more complex variations on the idea with his company,
Animusic.
*Some clips from the shorts are CGI commercials and promos, like an ID for
MusiquePlus
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It was first established in 1986 as the mus ...
in ''Anything is Possible''.
See also
*''
Funpak''
External links
YTV's official website
Canadian computer-animated television series
YTV (Canadian TV channel) original programming
Canadian motion picture television series
1990s Canadian animated television series
1990s Canadian anthology television series
1994 Canadian television series debuts
1996 Canadian television series endings
Canadian children's animated anthology television series
English-language television shows
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