Look Who it Was Random video

On Closer Inspection (1953) | BFI National Archive

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Channel: BFI · 2017 · Film & Animation

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Take a closer look and the perfectly natural becomes remarkably alien. Hungarian artist Peter Foldes and his British wife Joan are better known for the two animated films they made in the 1950s - particularly the apocalyptic A Short Vision (1956), which terrified America after being screened on The Ed Sullivan Show. This film is much gentler fare, yet with an underlying darkness and abstraction that belies the jaunty commentary.

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