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Down and Out (1977)

Down and Out poster
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

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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