[MOVIE]
Scen.: C. H. Dand; F.: Alex Strasser; Colour direction and production: Humphrey Jennings; Scgf.: John Banting, Alan Farmer; Mu.: “The Planets” di Gustav Holst; Sound editor: Jack Ellitt; Voce: E. V. H. Emmett; Prod.: Len Lye, per Shell-Mex Films/Shell Oil Company; 35mm. D.: 7’ a 24 f/s. Col.
Lye had experimented with puppet films in 1934, and returned to the genre with this whimsical advertisement for Shell oil. The film was also designed as a showcase for a new colour process, Gasparcolor. Humphrey Jennings, the poet-director of Listen to Britain, is credited with “colour direction and production”. Lye’s puppets enact a crowded story climaxing in the birth of the Shell company’s logo, a robot figure.
Geoff Brown
