Storytime (1968)

Directed by

Terry Gilliam

Genre

Christmas film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

9 min

Rating

6.3 of 10 from 32 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Three short animated segments are stitched together. The first two feature Don the Cockroach and Albert Einstein in odd situations. The third is a Christmas themed story.

whimsicalsurrealplayfulnostalgicquirkyshortanimatedeccentric

What happens

Story Time is a 1979 short animated comedy compilation film written, directed and animated by Terry Gilliam. It is compiled from several of Gilliam's works from the late 1960s and early 1970s, and stylistically resembles the distinctive animations which Gilliam produced in that period for Monty Python's Flying Circus. Story Time is composed of three loosely connected animated segments. The first two, "Don the Cockroach" and "The Albert Einstein Story", were originally broadcast within the television series The Marty Feldman Comedy Machine (1971–72), while the third, "The Christmas Card", was created for the 1968 Christmas Special of Do Not Adjust Your Set. It was also shown as an accompaniment to some British theatrical releases of Monty Python's Life of Brian. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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