Jabberwocky

Duration: 14

Year Published: 1973

Creator: Kratky Film Prague

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Copyright: Registered 21Dec73 · LP43232 (Jan-Jun 1974) Copyright holder: SIM Productions, Inc

Description: Presents, in a tour de force of animation techniques, a series of scenes in which the toys and games and related paraphenalia of childhood perform various activities. Juxtaposes images of formal loveliness with childlike gaity, mythic superstition, and surprising and perverse violence. Begins with a reading of the Lewis Carroll poem but, rather than interpreting it, takes off on the absurd suggestiveness of the poetic images., Presents, in a tour de force of animation techniques, a series of scenes in which the toys and games and related paraphenalia of childhood perform various activities. Juxtaposes images of formal loveliness with childlike gaity, mythic superstition, and surprising and perverse violence. Begins with a reading of the Lewis Carroll poem but, rather than interpreting it, takes off on the absurd suggestiveness of the poetic images.

Complete Record: Presents, in a tour de force of animation techniques, a series of scenes in which the toys and games and related paraphenalia of childhood perform various activities. Juxtaposes images of formal loveliness with childlike gaity, mythic superstition, and surprising and perverse violence. Begins with a reading of the Lewis Carroll poem but, rather than interpreting it, takes off on the absurd suggestiveness of the poetic images., NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.