Down and Out

Down and Out (1979)

A homeless pensioner tries to fathom the correct procedure to get a meal.

Date of release
1979-03-13
TMDB
5.6 / 10 (5)
Runtime
5m
Genres
Drama, Animation
Director
Peter Lord, David Sproxton

Interesting facts

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".

Production

This was the first film to use the technique developed by Sproxton and Lordan of "animating puppet characters to spontaneous, realistic conversations, rather than prepared scripts...It impressed producer Jeremy Isaacs, who commissioned five five-minute films [entitled Conversation Pieces] for the newly established Channel 4 in London.

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