Daumier's Law

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Movie
Original title Daumier's Law
Country of production Great Britain
original language French
Publishing year 1992
length 15 minutes
Rod
Director Geoff Dunbar
script Paul McCartney
Linda McCartney
production Ginger gibbons
music Paul McCartney
cut Corinne Lejeune

Daumier's Law is an animated short film directed by Geoff Dunbar in 1992.

action

In a bookstore, a man is leafing through a portfolio with drawings that are brought to life:

In Right peaceful carnival scenes are shown harmless pranks, women with children and a dancing woman on stage. Wrong shows the same fair at which the audience amused themselves with a brutal puppet play. A gentleman stands up during the performance and leaves. He is run over by a man on the night streets of the city. This one killed another man. However, the gentleman is arrested by the police. In Justice the Lord will be tried and convicted, even if a witness calls him innocent. In punishment, like humans and animals, the man has to do heavy work for punishment, so in Payment he drags full baskets of money into the gullet of the Gargantua. When it bursts open, it hurls the Lord into the Gargantua's stomach. From this he is eliminated in release due to flatulence . When the gentleman looks up, he sees Don Quixote with a horse in front of him. The gentleman mounts the horse and rides Don Quixote to the fair. Here he goes to the dancing woman on stage and they both bow.

The man finished leafing through the folder and closed it.

production

Gargantua by Honoré Daumier

Daumier's Law is based on an idea by Linda and Paul McCartney . The black and white animated film shows - divided into six “laws” - animated lithographs by Honoré Daumier . The lithographs Gargantua (in the Payment segment ) and Rue Transnonain, le 15 Avril 1834 (the dead person in the Wrong segment ) can be seen implemented in animation. Paul McCartney wrote the score for the film; he and his wife Linda were also executive producers on the film. Daumier's Law premiered at the Cannes International Film Festival in May 1992 .

Awards

Daumier's Law won the BAFTA in 1993 for Best Animated Short Film . It also ran in Cannes in 1992 in the competition for the Golden Palm for Best Short Film and was nominated for a Golden Hugo at the Chicago International Film Festival in the Best Short Film category.

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