Doodle film

This short mockumentary explores the life of chronic doodler David Watts. Taking himself very seriously, the film’s narrator traces the history of Watts’ problem back to a second grade notebook cover and follows it through to its natural end – a man who covers every available surface with doodling… including his wife.

Directed by Donald Winkler - 1970 | 10 min

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Credits

Donald Winkler; National Film Board of Canada

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The dossier of an inveterate doodler, a man whose compulsion to put scrawls and squiggles on everything at hand brings him to no good end, according to the narrator, at least. The commentary, delivered with the perspicacity of a coroner’s report, follows the development of the doodler’s mania from boyhood through adolescence to manhood, when it suddenly breaks all bounds. An amusing “case history” that some of us might identify with. Voice and narration provided by Maurice Podbrey. (Awards: Atlanta; Chicago)

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