Anyone Lived in a Pretty How Town
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Anyone Lived in a Pretty How Town |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1967 |
| length | 6 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | George Lucas |
| script | George Lucas, Paul Golding |
| camera | George Lucas |
| cut | George Lucas |
Anyone Lived in a Pretty How Town is the sixth short film by screenwriter, producer and director George Lucas and was produced in 1967 while Lucas was assistant to Gene Peterson at the University of Southern California .
The six-minute fantasy short film was shot in color and in Cinemascope . The screenplay, which George Lucas wrote together with Paul Golding, his partner at Herbie , was named after the poem anyone lived in a pretty how town by EE Cummings from 1940. Lucas's impressionistic film is based on the experimental writing style of the poet on a surreal narrative.
action
A man wakes up under a tree in a park. He gets up, smells a flower and watches a rabbit. Elsewhere in a factory a worker is hammering while a woman is working on a sewing machine. A man with an old-fashioned camera suddenly appears out of nowhere. The people he then photographs disappear in a flash. The man keeps his favorite pictures in a photo album. He tears up pictures that he doesn't like.
The man in the park meets with a young girl and has a picnic with her. While they are dancing in the sun, the photographer appears and takes a picture of the man. When the man disappears, the girl begins to cry. The photographer recognizes in his picture a man with a horrified expression on his face and tears up this photo. Rain sets in in the park and daisies bloom from the snippets of the photo. A little boy smells the flowers and jumps away.
Web links
- Anyone lived in a pretty how town in the Internet Movie Database (English)