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
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.
conversationalrealisticmundaneobservationalgroundednaturalisticlow-key
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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