Metadata
WORK ID: NEFA 23067 (Master Record)
Title | Year | Date |
THE CHOKING HORROR | 1955 | 1955-01-01 |
Details
Original Format: 16mm Colour: Colour Sound: Silent Duration: 1 min 49 secs Credits: David Jones Genre: Animation Subject: Science/Technology |
Summary A pen-and-ink animation produced by Dr David Jones when he was teenager and made to be shown on a moving-image machine of his own invention created from Meccano. The film features a group of astronauts visiting a distant plant and being attached by an ooze monster. One of the crew is infected and brings it back to earth where it causes havoc. However, it is defeated by having starch poured over it. |
Description
A pen-and-ink animation produced by Dr David Jones when he was teenager and made to be shown on a moving-image machine of his own invention created from Meccano. The film features a group of astronauts visiting a distant plant and being attached by an ooze monster. One of the crew is infected and brings it back to earth where it causes havoc. However, it is defeated by having starch poured over it.
Eight cone shaped individuals marching past, one holds up a sign for the opening credit....
A pen-and-ink animation produced by Dr David Jones when he was teenager and made to be shown on a moving-image machine of his own invention created from Meccano. The film features a group of astronauts visiting a distant plant and being attached by an ooze monster. One of the crew is infected and brings it back to earth where it causes havoc. However, it is defeated by having starch poured over it.
Eight cone shaped individuals marching past, one holds up a sign for the opening credit.
Credit: Jonescope
Title: Presented in glorious watercolour
A pink cone-shaped individual.
Credit: Staring Fred
Credit: And with Direction, Production, Script, Additional Dialogue, Costumes, Make-Up: D. Jones
Credit: Décor, Lighting, Photography, Drawing, Continuity, Sound Effects: D. Jones. Colour by Watercolour
Title: Cert ‘X’ unfit for human consumption
Title: The Choking –
The following titles drips with ooze.
Title: HORROR
The title morphs into ‘H2O2’written on the side of a tanker. A hose goes from the tanker into a space rocket beside which is the service structure.
On top of the tower a doorway through which four cone-shaped individuals wearing space helmets make their way towards the rocket. As they enter rocket the step on a doormat that reads ‘Welcome’. The last man in the rocket has the name ‘Fred’ written on his torso, the door of the rocket is closed, the door itself is a standard house door with glass windows.
Someone standing on the service structure drops a bottle attached to a string, another character tries grabbing it before it hits the rocket but fails, the content splashing all over them.
The rocket moves away from the service structure, a figure pulls a lever for a railway signal to read ‘go’ and a figure dressed as a railway station master in black cap waves a green flag. The rocket launches into space, the smoke of soot from the boosters appearing to cover a figure.
Onboard the rocket the four astronauts are compressed to half their size before floating around after the booster rocket is released. One of the astronauts pulls a lever that reads ‘GYRO’, and the rockets stabilises and shoots off into space. On board the astronauts are squashed into the floor as the rocket lands on an unknown planet.
Getting to their feet the four astronauts open the rocket door, lower a ladder and decent to the ground. One of them plants a Union Jack.
The four-go exploring walking up a hillside before racing back while being chased by a blob of green ooze. One of the astronauts is consumed by it, and Fred has the ooze cover his feet. The surviving three astronauts make it back to their ship, pull a level and the rocket launches.
The rockets travels through space arriving back in orbit of earth. On board the astronauts once again float around, a speech bubble appears about one of them reading:
Title: He’s Got IT!’
One of the two uninfected astronauts’ hits Fred over the head with a mace like weapon. An ‘Altitude’ dial drops to ‘0’ as Fred steps over the welcome mat and is pushed out the rocket by his companions.
The rocket crashes into the ground but Fred is able to land safely. The ooze chases a four characters consuming one. A sign reads ‘Danger Firing Range’ changes to character firing a machine gun and two more firing an artillery piece at the advancing ooze. Both are consumed.
Another character seeing the approaching ooze climbs a ladder onto a crane, a sign nearby reads ‘Starch Co’. Using the crane to scoop up a buckets of starch he drops it onto the ooze causing it to transfer into a piece of art. A sign now above the defeated ooze reads ‘Modern Art’ with someone placing a ‘1st’ prize label beside it. The film ends on a character next to him with a question-mark above his head.
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