Trade Tattoo

Trade Tattoo

1937
Drama, Animation
Short Film
5m
Placed against documentary footage and silhouettes of various trains and workers quickly mailing various packages, it's a kaleidescope of images with various typed-words printed on screen like: "The rhythm of trade is maintained by the mails" over and over again. (imdb comments)
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Trade Tattoo

1937
Drama, Animation
Short Film
5m
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Rated 22 Jan 2010
81
64th
Catchy and colourful.
Rated 23 Apr 2011
20
9th
Trippy
Rated 23 Feb 2020
40
19th
This made me think of some kind of mind control.
Rated 08 Oct 2021
80
68th
Len Lye was commissioned by the post office to make a film about mailing important stuff early. He made this dazzling bit of avant-garde animation utilizing footage left over from other documentaries and applied a ground breaking Technicolor technique to colorize the footage in vibrant ways. He hand animated on top of it and set it to music by the Lecuona Cuban Band. The idea is that the work day has a rhythm to it, all held together by the post office.

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