A whimsical promotional film accompanied the single and was first shown on the November 20, 1976, episode of Saturday Night Live.
He is known for his whimsical abstract animated films created using a drawn on film technique.
Joe Baltake of The Sacramento Bee gave 1.5 stars (of 4) to the "whimsical if predictable" film "marred by a willful single-mindedness."
"Heart and Souls," a whimsical film that could raise the dead for the wrong reasons, has the cute idea of bringing together four bus passengers and a pregnant woman for a fatal crash.
Nor should we forget the plaintively whimsical films of Wes Anderson, which flaunt a Salingeresque sense of their own rarefied sensibility.
Even a whimsical film can touch base with the real thing once or twice.
On a much lighter note, this program begins with "Grown Up," Joanne Priestly's whimsical animated short film about the travails of middle age.
While John Duigan's pointedly whimsical film overworks the fairy-tale aspect of this friendship, it also shows off a poised young actress and a leading man with charisma to burn.
After a brilliant start that seemed to have him programmed for theatrical stardom - with a leading role in the whimsical 1966 British film "Morgan!"
It bears the traits of all Ms. Hubley's films: sophisticated, whimsical.