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Experimental Animation

Experimental Animation (1933)

January. 01,1933
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Len Lye scraped together enough funding and borrowed equipment to produce a two-minute short featuring his self-made monkey, singing and dancing to 'Peanut Vendor', a 1931 jazz hit for Red Nichols. The two foot high monkey had bolted, moveable joints and some 50 interchangeable mouths to convey the singing. To get the movements right, Lye filmed his new wife, Jane, a prize-winning rumba dancer.

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Perry Kate
1933/01/01

Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

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ScoobyWell
1933/01/02

Great visuals, story delivers no surprises

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Noutions
1933/01/03

Good movie, but best of all time? Hardly . . .

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Ella-May O'Brien
1933/01/04

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

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