Calling Mr. Smith (1943)
- Directed by
- Franciszka Themerson, Stefan Themerson
- Genre
- documentary film
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Runtime
- 11 min
- Rating
- 5.8 of 10 from 4 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
This short film is an experimental anti-Nazi work that uses surreal and abstract imagery to protest the Nazi regime's atrocities. It aims to expose the horrors of Nazism to British audiences during World War Two.
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What happens
Calling Mr. Smith (Polish: Wzywając pana Smitha or Wzywamy Pana Smitha) is a short experimental (avant-garde) anti-Nazi Polish-British film from 1943, created by Franciszka Themerson and Stefan Themerson. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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