The Running Jumping & Standing Still Film

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Movie
Original title The Running Jumping & Standing Still Film
Country of production Great Britain
original language English
Publishing year 1959
length 11 minutes
Rod
Director Richard Lester
as Dick Lester ,
Peter Sellers
script Richard Lester,
Spike Milligan ,
Peter Sellers,
Mario Fabrizi
production Peter Sellers
music Richard Lester
camera Richard Lester
cut Richard Lester,
Peter Sellers
occupation

The Running Jumping & Standing Still Film (alternate title: Lovable Tidbits ) is a British slapstick comedy directed by Richard Lester and Peter Sellers from 1959.

action

The film has no continuous storyline, rather it strings together slapstick scenes.

A photographer observes a woman who washes the meadow, and shortly afterwards a man who sets up a tent and places a dirt trap in front of the entrance . He goes to the tent and photographs it. The man is outraged and chases him away. The photographer begins developing the photos by washing the film in a stream, hiding his head under a black cloth. A hunter comes along, the flippers and a diving mask wears and begins to wade through with a gun in his hand the creek. The photographer hears a violinist. This is far from his sheet of music, which he observes through binoculars and to which he cycles to turn the pages. Through his telescope he sees a group running carrying a box kite with British flags. The photographer appears and photographs the group. While one man stands in the scaffolding, the others run off with the kite line, which is extremely long. When the line is finally pulled taut, the kite disintegrates. The cord pullers run past a hammer thrower, which warms up laboriously and is used by a woman as a seat. She sits on a model of a painter who has divided her face into different numbered areas, the numbers standing for colors that he has also numbered on his painting palette. He also targets the hunter as a model, who walks past him and meets a man who is standing by a fence, seemingly lost in thought. The hunter walks on and the man, who feels unobserved, takes a record out of his jacket and places it on a tree stump. With a record needle and an ear tube, he runs around the record, which is now playing music. Meanwhile, the painter, model and hammer thrower quarrel and the latter expels the two of them. He throws his hammer, which the hunter sees as a bird, and shoots it down. The hammer will be destroyed. Hunters and hammer throwers argue and it is the man with the record who wants to mediate. He gives the hammer thrower a knife, whereupon he and the hunter duel. In the end, the man with the record is shot, with the smoking knife possibly being the firing weapon. The hang-glider appears on the horizon and is waved closer to the camera by a hand. When he gets to the camera, he is knocked down by a boxer. He returns to his house and goes to sleep.

production

The Running Jumping & Standing Still Film was made in 1959. At that time, Peter Sellers was looking for new ideas after years of participation in the Goon Show . He got his colleague Spike Milligan from the Goon Show to work on this film. Richard Lester, for whom the short film was the feature film debut as a director, also joined the team.

The pictures were taken in a field within a day or two, with some skits already being featured in the 1956 television series The Idiot Weekly Price 2d , A Show Called Fred and Son of Fred by Lester, Sellers and Milligan, which were for the film were varied. The film was shot with Sellers' own 16mm camera, a Paillard Bolex . All scenes were shot in one take; only the scene with the boxing glove knocking the plane down took two takes. Editing was done by Lester and Sellers in Sellers' bedroom.

The Running Jumping & Standing Still Film was shown at the 1959 San Francisco International Film Festival and the Edinburgh Film Festival and was distributed by British Lion in 1960. The film had a major impact on subsequent British comedians, including the Monty Pythons and their series Monty Python's Flying Circus . Among other things, it led the Beatles to hire Richard Lester and Leo McKern for their first feature film, A Hard Day's Night .

Awards

The Running Jumping & Standing Still Film won the "Golden Gate Award" for best short film at the San Francisco International Film Festival. In 1960 the film was nominated for an Oscar in the Best Short Film category.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Paul Gallagher: The Running Jumping & Standing Still Film on dangerousminds.net
  2. ^ A b John Oliver: Running, Jumping and Standing Still Film, The (1960) , screenonline.org.uk, accessed January 11, 2014
  3. ↑ a b See The Running Jumping & Standing Still Film on the Vienna International Film Festival website