Flesh Colored Crayons
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Made with funding from the Illinois Arts Council and the National Endowment for the; Arts, Flesh Colored Crayons is a panoply of colorful hand-drawn images that constantly; shift and change shape as they depict moments in memories—faces, figures, a Sunday; in the park, the year 1953.
Credits
Byron Grush (filmmaker)
Complete catalog record
Cfa collection: Byron Grush Collection
Notes: This film includes an array of animated scenes and sporadic phrases flashing on screen. The scenes are all quite different, beginning with dogs, ducks and people in a park, and continuing with a cowboy placing a revolver in his mouth. One of the longer animated scenes includes an outline of what appears to be Jesus Christ filled in with drawings of a rocket ship, a bull’s eye, Albert Einstein, and more. Some of the phrases that flash throughout the film include: “jogging my memory”, “the year was 1953,” “abort,” and “you can’t dance naked in Indiana”. The soundtrack includes ducks quacking, dogs barking, church bells, and men chanting.
Subjects: Religions; Animals; Sexuality and culture
Places: North America > United States > Illinois > Chicago
Language: English
Cfa elements: Print, 125 feet; Work Prints, 125 feet; Positive Soundtrack (Pos Track), 250 feet; Negatives, 250 feet
Cfa records: https://collections.chicagofilmarchives.org/Detail/objects/21904; https://collections.chicagofilmarchives.org/Detail/objects/20741; https://collections.chicagofilmarchives.org/Detail/objects/20771; https://collections.chicagofilmarchives.org/Detail/objects/20772
Notes: This film includes an array of animated scenes and sporadic phrases flashing on screen. The scenes are all quite different, beginning with dogs, ducks and people in a park, and continuing with a cowboy placing a revolver in his mouth. One of the longer animated scenes includes an outline of what appears to be Jesus Christ filled in with drawings of a rocket ship, a bull’s eye, Albert Einstein, and more. Some of the phrases that flash throughout the film include: “jogging my memory”, “the year was 1953,” “abort,” and “you can’t dance naked in Indiana”. The soundtrack includes ducks quacking, dogs barking, church bells, and men chanting.
Subjects: Religions; Animals; Sexuality and culture
Places: North America > United States > Illinois > Chicago
Language: English
Cfa elements: Print, 125 feet; Work Prints, 125 feet; Positive Soundtrack (Pos Track), 250 feet; Negatives, 250 feet
Cfa records: https://collections.chicagofilmarchives.org/Detail/objects/21904; https://collections.chicagofilmarchives.org/Detail/objects/20741; https://collections.chicagofilmarchives.org/Detail/objects/20771; https://collections.chicagofilmarchives.org/Detail/objects/20772
Sources
- Chicago Film Archives · record ↗ — title, year, creator, length, format, color, sound, genre, description, credits, catalog record, video
Record added 2026-11-08 21:25:24