That is the only reason I can see for Sam's Arcade . As best I can make out, it's about a fellow who has some slightly sf-toned nightmares when he eats food near bedtime. Years ago, Winston McCay made an interesting animated film on this theme, taken from the Little Nemo comic strip. Sam's Arcade isn't at all interesting. It uses a rotoscoping technique somewhat similar to the Eleanor Rigby sequence from Yellow Submarine , but apparently different enough to gouge some money out of the pockets of Canadian taxpayers.
Contact is a Russian animated film about an alien encountering a human artist out in the country.
It's modestly amusing, modestly animated, just plain modest overall. I'd also bet Nino Rota, who wrote the theme, didn't see a penny for its use in Contact . The centerpiece of the program, indeed, its reason for existence, was Futureopolis , a homemade 40 minute science fiction extravaganza. Almost all of it is animated, much of it in pixillation. For those not up on animation terminology, pixillation is a technique in which live actors are photographed a frame at a time.