Down and Out (1977)

Directed by

Peter Lord, David Sproxton

Genre

drama, animation

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

5 min

Rating

5.6 of 10 from 5 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.

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How it feels

This short film uses a recording of a real conversation as its script. Two clay animated characters talk about everyday life in a matter of fact way.

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What happens

Down and Out is a 1979 short film created by Aardman Animations. It is part of the Animated Conversations series. In this short, creators David Sproxton and Peter Lord "applied the groundbreaking technique of using recorded conversations of real people as the basis for the script". (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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