"I don’t really invent much, I just copy unusual details I’ve spotted in real life. The dog with its bum covered over with tape is another example – that’s something I’d actually seen on the streets of London."
STREET OF CROCODILES, originally a #shortStory written by Bruno Schulz, was made into a seminal work of #animation; a 21-minute-long British stop-motion animation short subject directed and produced by the #BrothersQuay and released in 1986.
#TerryGilliam selected Street of Crocodiles as one of the top ten best animated films of all time.
Given that today is the first of October, it just feels right to post this.
"There was a thing in the [19]50s, you got inundated with all this right-wing material. But anti-communism seemed to go hand-in-hand with racial discrimination. So you'd get all these pictures of black guys being lynched because they'd been seen talking to a while girl.
This was the right thing in America [for] these people. So you had the Klu Klux Klan and the anti-communists inundating every student body leader at the time."