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Old 01-20-08, 10:39 PM
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Can someone identify this animated short?

It's a black and white stop-action short, probably from Eastern Europe in the 60s. I saw it on PBS in the 70s. It starts with a room that's a shambles. Slowly everything in the room rebuilds itself: the toys come back together, the wallpaper heals its rips and sticks to the wall, and the clock gears reassemble. Lastly the time bomb is repaired. It explodes. Fin.
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I wish I could...I also recall some really great animation on PBS when I was a kid (not during the typical kid programming hours either...but in prime time) and if anybody has info on any animated shorts from PBS in the 70's/80's it would be a welcome treat. If only they were collected on DVD.
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Could it be by Jan Svankmajer?
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Originally Posted by Nick Danger
It's a black and white stop-action short, probably from Eastern Europe in the 60s. I saw it on PBS in the 70s. It starts with a room that's a shambles. Slowly everything in the room rebuilds itself: the toys come back together, the wallpaper heals its rips and sticks to the wall, and the clock gears reassemble. Lastly the time bomb is repaired. It explodes. Fin.
It's by Polish filmmaker Walerian Borowczyk and is called Renaissance (1963).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAirHKywhSc

"Renaissance (1963) which uses reverse motion to depict various destroyed objects (a prayer book, a stuffed toy, etc.) re-assembling themselves, only to be destroyed again when the last object (a bomb) is complete."

Where I found it (by Googling "animation 60s bomb reverse"): http://www.answers.com/topic/waleria...=entertainment

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Cool! Thanks.

I couldn't come up with the right combination of words in Google.
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