Metadata
WORK ID: YFA 5725 (Master Record)
| Title | Year | Date |
| PIPE DREAM | 1965 | 1965-01-01 |
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Details
Original Format: Standard 8 Colour: Black & White Sound: Sound Duration: 3 mins 10 secs Credits: Doug and Norah Brear |
| Summary This is another whimsical film by Wakefield couple Doug and Norah Brear showing that, even with very limited resources, the average amateur filmmaker in the 1960s could still produce an inventive light hearted animation. Using stop-motion animation, a pipe cleaner takes on a life of its own and dances when as it becomes transformed into the figure of a person. |
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Description
This is another whimsical film by Wakefield couple Doug and Norah Brear showing that, even with very limited resources, the average amateur filmmaker in the 1960s could still produce an inventive light hearted animation. Using stop-motion animation, a pipe cleaner takes on a life of its own and dances when as it becomes transformed into the figure of a person.
Titles – Chaseley Films
present
Pipe Dream
The film begins showing a pipe, a pipe cleaner, a box of Swann matches and tin of...
This is another whimsical film by Wakefield couple Doug and Norah Brear showing that, even with very limited resources, the average amateur filmmaker in the 1960s could still produce an inventive light hearted animation. Using stop-motion animation, a pipe cleaner takes on a life of its own and dances when as it becomes transformed into the figure of a person.
Titles – Chaseley Films
present
Pipe Dream
The film begins showing a pipe, a pipe cleaner, a box of Swann matches and tin of St Bruno tobacco on a table. A man is seated in a chair. He picks up his pipe, cleans it, and lights it. Then the pipe cleaner starts to do a dance on the table in an animated sequence. It becomes the figure of a person and continues to dance as the man scratches his head. The pipe figure multiplies, does some acrobatics and then all the pipe figures formed a joined up line before the figure becomes transformed to spell “end.”
Context
A once common object in many households becomes transformed into a quirky dancing troupe in this simple homespun animation.
This is another whimsical film by Wakefield couple Doug and Norah Brear showing that, even with very limited resources, the average amateur filmmaker in the 1960s could still produce an inventive light hearted animation. Taking the most mundane of everyday objects, pipe cleaners – not so “everyday” any more – the Brears demonstrate that you don’t necessarily need...
A once common object in many households becomes transformed into a quirky dancing troupe in this simple homespun animation.
This is another whimsical film by Wakefield couple Doug and Norah Brear showing that, even with very limited resources, the average amateur filmmaker in the 1960s could still produce an inventive light hearted animation. Taking the most mundane of everyday objects, pipe cleaners – not so “everyday” any more – the Brears demonstrate that you don’t necessarily need hi-tech equipment to conjure up a delightful short animation. Doug and Norah Brear were members of Wakefield Cine Club who made over 60 films between 1960 and 1985, many shown at film shows across Yorkshire by his friend and fellow filmmaker Roger Spence. Pipe smoking has declined drastically since the 1960s, when it was very common, especially among those who took a thoughtful approach to life. Harold Wilson, the then Prime Minister – named Pipe Smoker of the Year in the year that this film was made – was hardly ever seen in public without his pipe, buying him time to think through what he was about to say; perhaps exemplifying Albert Einstein’s reported remark that pipe smoking, "Contributed to a somewhat calm and objective judgment in all human affairs.” This film is available to be licensed for non-commercial creative reuse. For more information please contact yfa@yorksj.ac.uk |
