....a number of years ago....back, when my older brother was still in art school..
...we had his then girlfriend staying over...most of the family had run off to midnight mass
that christmas eve (back when attendance was still somewhat "enforced")....maybe we were supposed to meet them all there, or we had all finally fallen out with the Catholic religion for good...but we stayed home...just the 3 of us I think.....
...our big old house was quiet...but pregnant with the excitement we still managed to conjure up for the holiday....and we were huddled 'round the television watching IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE (a film I can STILL watch and never get sick of.....)....
....for some reason we flipped to the Los Angeles public t.v. station and this amazing little ditty of a film was on....we all held our breath in awe....the house totally still...the snow falling inside the t.v. set seemed to expand to include us there in it's wintery umbrella...huddled around it's glow....breathless....
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Ohhhhhh. how gorgeous! he did this in conjunction with the national film board of canada. (yay!) i love stop motion. i like go motion, too. heh heh. when you were talkin' 'bout mass being 'enforced' made me smile a little. i remember dose days. one time my dad got mad at me for not going, and i said, "i'll go to mass with you if you want to come with me to my protests" (since he had his beliefs and i had mine). oh well. he never came to the protests and so i didn't show up in church. i always write too much when i comment. so. this here's for you. thanks for making me smile tonight, clarence.
oh yeah. if you didn't see it already, here's a stop motion video i loved.
...is this CHILDHOOD poem...was it used in WINGS OF DESIRE...kind of...?
....also...your link to the stopmotion ani-thing...i think you just repasted the Peter H.poem twice....
i just remembered what it was she repeated. on the bicycle. it wasn't what i wrote. but i still remember relating to it. at the time. what a great film. g'nite...
Ah, Slavic animation...
John, you MUST see "Hedgehog in Fog" by Yuri Norshtein, the great animator who did "Tale of Tales."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZS1fLK4DYM
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