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Brief Encounters
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One Froggy Evening

Chuck Jones

One Froggy Evening
1955|USA|7 min|Col|Animation

- Singin' in the froggy rain.

Comedy/Music
, by

Life is often quite funny,









	      ...until you have heard the joke many times over.

132

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Beginning
(Skizbe)

Artavazd Peleshian

Skizbe
1967|Soviet Union|9 min|BW|Live Action

- The beat of spirit.

Film Collage/History
October, by Sergei Eisenstein

Shouting
	Is hurting your ears
		more than
			more than
				more than
Giving up.
Shooting
	Is hurting your legs
		less than
			less than
				less than...

133

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Swinging the Lambeth Walk

Len Lye

Swinging the Lambeth Walk
1940|UK|4 min|Col|Animation

- Optical swing night.

Avant-garde/Visual Music
, by



			Retina Surgery
		
		  Cost: $ 0 per millisecond
		
		    Location: Your Screen
		
		Surgeon: Available on Inquiry

134

Annecy 100

The Band Concert

Wilfred Jackson

Band Concert
1935|USA|9 min|Col|Animation

- The gang in mood.

Music/Family/Comedy
, by

			Light!
			Sound!
		Lightning!
				Thunder!
	Boom like rang!
					Ring like a bomb!
    Man swings his hand!
					Mouse sways his tail!
Gang is in mood-
			Pang is in wood-
						Bang is in #*#!

135

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Brief Encounters
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The Music Box

James Parrott

The Music Box
1932|USA|29 min|BW|Live Action

- The short cut of the century.

Comedy/Absurdism
, by

"What do you want to order?"
"Piano."
"How many?"
"Piano."
"How would you like it delivered?"
"Piano."
"What time would be best for the delivery?"
"Piano."
"How would you like it tuned?"
"Piano."
Piano, def: piano, low amount, softly, early, slowly.

136

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Fugue

Georges Schwizgebel

Fugue
1998|Switzerland|7 min|Col|Animation

- Picturing an uninterrupted silence.

Transformism/Visual Music
, by

	A past a red meadow
	A blast a med render
	Aghast a wed riddle
	Amass a dead widow
===============================================================

	(reset)
	Going past a meadow,
		A blast, met with render,
			On set to a riddle,
				Of thus a dead willow.

137

Johann Mouse

Joseph Barbera, William Hanna

Johann Mouse
1952|USA|8 min|Col|Animation

- The eternal duet.

Comedy/Music
Amadeus, by Milos Forman

			(My Childhood)
3567--
	543--
	2456---
	432
		1345---
			65--
				67--
				532---2
				2#23--
				11---

138

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By Night with Torch and Spear

Joseph Cornell

By Night with Torch and Spear
1942|USA|8 min|BW|Live Action

- When light has an insomnia.

Avant-garde/Documentary
, by

Blood is running,
	As if gold is melting,
		When night is shouting.
Skin is frozen,
	Like snow is fallen,
		Where silence is broken.
	Uphill,
			The wind is arousing.
	Downhill,
			The rain is drowsing.
	All - till the dawn is striken.

139

Annecy 100

The Sinking of the Lusitania

Winsor McCay

The Sinking of the Lusitania
1918|USA|12 min|BW|Animation

- Animated News.

Ani-documentary/History
Tora! Tora! Tora!, by Richard Fleischer

Right ON!
	Says the captain.
		We are DONE.
There is no need to curl up the curtain,
	and no lead to fire the burden,
		Only one thing is certain,
			That the future is sunken.
Where to GO?
	From WHERE?
		There isn't much left
			for anything to happen.

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The Four Troublesome Heads
(Un homme de tête)

Georges Méliès

Un Homme de Tete
1898|France|1 min|BW|Live Action

- Yes, it's 19th century.

Surrealism/Experimental
, by

	It is ten in the morning,
	Your mother-in-law is coming.
	Rush to the cabinet, scrambling
	for the right head, forthcoming.

	One at your doctor,
		One at your lawyer,
			One at your employer,
				Only the bald one left, staring.
	So what? You figure,
	Let her have it, you are out sailing.