This claymation short film uses a real interview for dialogue. Bill Perry relates stories about his youth, his tilted house, and adventures during WWII in Bristol, England during the blitz. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive.
Direction
Peter Lord's tactile clay world feels like touching memory itself.
Writing
Bill Perry's unscripted war stories are funnier than most comedies.
Director
Peter Lord
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Peter Lord co-founded Aardman Animations two years before this; you can feel Wallace & Gromit brewing in the clay fingerprints.
The Blitz spirit—finding humor in devastation—gets its most literal form here: a man made of mud remembering fire.
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