Bradbury collaborated with Johnson on Icarus Montgolfier Wright (1962), an Oscar-nominated short film about the history of flight. “It was a way of adapting his five-page short story into seventeen pages of lyrical prose in which I would try to visualize paintings merging and melting into each other, so as to use superimposure and the moving camera on works of art.” –

https://bradleyonfilm.wordpress.com/2010/02/28/george-clayton-johnson/

The story concerns an early vision of the first manned rocket flight to the moon and was uncannily accurate seven years prior to the Apollo 11 mission. Joseph Anthony Mugnaini, an illustrator and Bradbury’s long-time friend and collaborator, spent two years creating thousands of sketches and more than 300 oil paintings to help create the animated short film, which was nominated for an Academy Award in 1962.