Sing Along
Mark Fiore
Creators: Mark Fiore
Length: 1 minute
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Sing Along is a short musical denouncing the use of performance enhancing drugs by professional athletes. As anything done by creator Mark Fiore, it's highly charged politically. A bouncing baseball helps viewers follow the lyrics taken from Take Me Out to the Ball Game but changed to fit the theme of the cartoon. Although baseball players are the prime targets, the cartoon targets other athletes too.

Using two pumped up baseball players, the song describes how to make them big players who will produce new records and impress the crowds. The cartoon ends by saying that our heroes will inspire our kids to take steroids and untraceable drugs to become better performer and break new records. The only thing missing was a poke at the financial rewards of performance enhancing drugs.

Visually, this project is not complicated. The animations are brief and many stills are used, with only secondary props moving. An interesting feature of the drawings is that they retain much of the hand-drawn look of a traditional political cartoonist. In fact, the Sing Along is a big political cartoon with a little movement. The compression of the music and timing with the animation were off, though.
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