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Summary: Police Officer Flanagan gives a little blind girl, Billie, a Raggety-Ann doll, and she is told she can see it if she uses her imagination; she does so and the slum neighborhood is transformed into an enchanted fairyland, alive with beautiful colors and music. (imdb)
One would think that a blind person wouldn't need to be told to use their imagination to visualize things they hear or feel. Ignoring that obvious logic gap, this short is still way too sickly sweet for my taste. There's no laughs, and the song is just awful. It's nicely animated, though.
Standard, generic, saccharine sweet cartoon no different than a hundred others. Nowadays, it's boring and content-less; if you're into this, why not watch a live action, family-friendly musical instead? And anyone else get a creepy vibe from Officer Flanagan, like one day he is going to viciously rape Billie's mother, who is terrified of the oaf already? Note how scared poor Guiseppe was of him too, careful not to catch a beating. He's just using Billie to get to her mother, the sly dog.
I have to say it takes chutzpah to make a cartoon about a branded, mass-produced toy having the power to bring sight to the blind. Raggedy Ann reveals herself as a monstrous nightmare when she starts singing, sending Billie into a hallucinatory delirium, culminating in her apparently *running across the street* to her mother in the real world. Raggedy Ann is one twisted doll. However, much like Ann herself, I enjoyed watching Billie dance around in her delusional fantasy world.
I loved the fantasy playfulness of it, especially the sweet sentiment of the ending, but the premise, even the way it played out, was unsettlingly similar to a lot of ghost stories I've read; Raggedy Ann was out for blood.