An Exhaustive History of Ralph Bakshi’s Lord of the Rings

While the video talks mostly about The Lord of the Rings (1978) there is a discussion of Bakshi’s earlier R-rated and NC-17 films, which deal with heavy subject matter like racism, police violence, transphobia, drug abuse, and various adult scenarios. This was intended to be a quick little video that I could churn out in a couple weeks at the end of June, but it’s now taken almost the whole summer. I haven’t done animation like this in years, and never with this kind of a coherent goal, so approximately 48 seconds of this video consumed 80% of the entire post production time. Written and performed by Dan Olson Background artist: Agata Pankowska Crowdfunding: Twitter: