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  • fucking McLaren....

  • Love the music, too - Ibert's Divertissement.

  • uv got to love norman mclaren.. amazing animator and film maker

  • didn't get it

  • @dariomoses It was an advertising film for the British Post Office efore World War 2.

  • That was brilliant!

  • Fascinating...  seems likely that Gilliam would have seen this. Lovely!!

  • I wonder if Terrt Gilliam had seen this when he did the 'Pyton' titles?

  • Reminds me of SALVADOR DALI. I liked it, although I didnt get the relevance of the letter people being in love, and then the "Villain" ? On the whole i liked it, but if sum1 could explain, that'd b great

  • @nunovurbisnes it was produced for the nfb I think, it was an advertisement informing audiences of the price increase of postage at the time. McLaren was interested in Surrealist art and made his career with experimental cinema which relied on painting, etching or penning directly onto the film

  • extremely amazing! magical!!!!

  • Starts out Dali turns Magritte and ends up Klee - amazing! Though the imagery is a bit single entendre at the end!

  • Amazing film. The title sequence looks like it was inspired by Dali. Was it just me or is it supposed to look like the 2 'letters' are having sex in 1 sequence?

  • @rosieh101 it wasn't originally released because of the perception that it was to sexually deviant.

  • @rosieh101 it wasn't originally released because of the perception that it was to sexually deviant. Also he was inspired by surrealism which is the same art that Dali created.

  • Astonishing.

  • Check out the antecedent in Emile Cohl's "Fantasmagorie" watch?v=aEAObel8yIE

  • How wondrously surrealistic!

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