Experimental Animation
Overview
Len Lye scraped together enough funding and borrowed equipment to produce a two-minute short featuring his self-made monkey, singing and dancing to 'Peanut Vendor', a 1931 jazz hit for Red Nichols. The two foot high monkey had bolted, moveable joints and some 50 interchangeable mouths to convey the singing. To get the movements right, Lye filmed his new wife, Jane, a prize-winning rumba dancer.
Release date
01/01/1933
Votes
15
Popularity
0.9
Original Soundtrack
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Printed Rainbow
Dodoba
Liberated Don Quixote
Bambi Meets Godzilla
Lost Tune
White Elephant
Romie-0 and Julie-8
Le Messager de la lumière
The Sun's Gonna Shine
Nowhere Stream
Snack Attack
Her Mother's Daughters
Candy Boy
Ein verbotener Ausflug!
Night Light
The Circus
Mite
Frankenstein Punk
Ghost Town
Paranoid