Directors: Joan & Peter Foldes

Production Company: British Film Institute Experimental Film Fund

Producers: Joan & Peter Foldes

Written by Joan & Peter Foldes

Music : Mátyás Seiber

Commentator: James McKechnie

(British Film Institute) A Short Vision [1956] became one of the most influential British animated films ever made when it was screened on US television as part of the popular Ed Sullivan Show. Although children were advised to leave the room while it played, it still caused outrage and alarm with its graphic representation of the horrors of nuclear war. But it also caught the mood of the times, since the mid-1950s was the height of both the Cold War and nuclear paranoia, as depicted (sometimes allegorically) in such American films as Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) and The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957).