This Thing Is Over An Hour Long

The Last Man On Earth (1964)

Jabberwocky Jan Svankmajer

Visual Development from Monsters Inc

“Today I am going to kill something. Anything. I have had enough of being ignored and today I am going to play God. It is an ordinary day, a sort of grey with boredom stirring in the streets. I squash a fly against the window with my thumb. We did that at school. Shakespeare. It was in another language and now the fly is in another language. I breathe out talent on the glass to write my name. I am a genius. I could be anything at all, with half the chance. But today I am going to change the world. Something’s world. The cat avoids me. The cat knows I am a genius, and has hidden itself. I pour the goldfish down the bog. I pull the chain. I see that it is good. The budgie is panicking. Once a fortnight, I walk the two miles into town for signing on. They don’t appreciate my autograph. There is nothing left to kill. I dial the radio and tell the man he’s talking to a superstar. He cuts me off. I get our bread-knife and go out. The pavements glitter suddenly. I touch your arm.”

— Carol Ann Duffy, ‘Education for Leisure’

“(T-T-T-Time!)“.

Emilio Pettoruti (1892-1971), Summer Night (1956), oil on canvas, 120 x 250 cm. Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Via MNBA.

Layout drawing of Ralph Phillips from Boyhood Daze (1957), by Chuck Jones. Notice the footstep spacing guide at the bottom, which Chuck left for the animator to flesh out.