Hi all! I'm a newbie and I totally tried the search option before I asked this, but I couldn't find what I was looking for.

For a month or so, a cartoon movie popped into my head out of nowhere that I remember watching on more than one occasion as a child. Unfortunately I vaguely remember the movie. I don't even remember what channel I saw it on. Maybe it was HBO or something... anyways, here are the snippets of info that I can recall about this cartoon movie:

An artist/painter had to save some sort of "fantasy land" from dark, gloomy, bad machines. And I think toadstool/mushroom people were bad also and tried to keep the artist/painter captive .

That's it. That's all I remember.

If anyone can help me and not think I'm crazy that would be awesome!

Thanks! :D

Do you know when this toon was on TV?

It was during the mid to late 80s.

I remember watching the movie during the day and night, so I'm not sure if it had a set time to air.

The movie your thinking of is called The Elm-Chanted Forest. About a painter that falls alseep under a magical elm tree. When he wakes up he finds he can talk to the forest animals. He helps them stop the evil Catus king frm destroying the forest. It's on dvd, I rented it from Netflix a couple months ago.

Ha, I sort of remember that movie from the days my family had HBO. Kitty, you're like the queen of remembering movies. Good stuff.

OMG!! That's it!

Now I have proof that I'm not crazy! Everytime I asked someone I knew they always gave that "your-crazy-and-I'm-not-talking-to-you-anymore" look.

Thank you so much, I'll have to rent it! It's been YEARS since I've seen it. :wink:

hey that was a good film although to some extent it reminded me of the Bluffers




you're just a bluffer , a candle snuffer , can't get enough of your dreams
a half of buffer , a pillow stuffer
your bound to suffer it seems
your head is full of dreams
to turn the world around
but all your fancy dream
are from the lost and found
are from the lost and found