THE TOP - Jimmy T. Murakami- Contemporary Films -1964 Animation

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16mm Educational Film
"The Top" Jimmy Murakami, Contemporary Films/McGraw Hill Murakami-Wolf Productions, 1965 - Animated 16mm color/sound with Paul Shively, Fred Wolf
A satirical animated cartoon about the struggles of people as they strive to become financial successes and to read the top in business.
A man appears and inhales a swirling cloud. Then he exhales stars. An industrialist with a cigar appears and inhales the stars, but exhales dark smoke that thickens over both men and finally lets rain pour down on them. The man inhales the cloud and exhales a sun. After the industrialist has inhaled the sun and exhaled haze, the man inhales the industrialist and exhales a woman with whom he dances. A bird becomes flowers through exhalation, and flowers become a heart through a woman. The man, however, breathes in the heart and exhales mud, so that the woman leaves disappointed, is inhaled by the man and exhaled as a beer bottle. This is followed by the exhalation of two women, one exhaling the other and the man exhaling a heart. The man makes music out of the heart and soon man and woman are breathing each other with hearts. The woman eventually exhales a baby, money is inhaled and exhaled and it becomes smaller and smaller, and in the end the man exhales a new woman who is inhaled by the other woman and exhaled as a new man. New husband, wife and child leave and cannot be inhaled by the remaining husband. Instead, he produces three widows weeping for him and on the next exhale a dog that inhales the man and exhales a bird. The bird exhales a worm and the worm exhales a flower, which inhales the worm, multiplies as it exhales and finally dies.
Teruaki "Jimmy" Murakami 村上輝明 was an American animator and film director with a long career working in numerous countries. Among his best-known works are the animated adaptations of the Raymond Briggs books When the Wind Blows and The Snowman. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film for The Magic Pear Tree (1968).
8 min. color / sound. On core in metal film can.
Good used condition. faded to red.
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