The Carnival of the Animals (better known in the English-speaking world as "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star"), the French nursery rhymes "Au clair de la lune", and "J'ai du bon tabac" (the piano plays the same melody upside down), the popular anthem "Partant pour la Syrie", as well as the aria "Una voce poco fa" from Rossini's "The Barber of Seville" can also be heard. The musical joke in this movement, according to Leonard Bernstein's narration on his recording of the work with the New York Philharmonic, is that the musical pieces quoted are the fossils of Saint-Saëns's time. Two pianos and cello: the lushly romantic
Day of the Animals is shocking for a modern audience raised on his work in comedy. Writer William W. Norton was himself disappointed in the film. Modest praise was issued by "The Hollywood Reporter". Some critics nevertheless recommended the film to fans of natural horror and disaster films of the 1970s. AllMovie compared it to "Kingdom of the Spiders" and "Frogs" Those who saw the film at a young age have formed a cult following of sorts. Day of the Animals Day of the Animals is a 1977 American natural horror film directed by William Girdler and based on a story written by Edward