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Street of crocodiles = Ulica krokodyli

Author: Keith M GriffithsLarry SiderJ CollinsLeszek JanowskiBruno SchulzAll authors
Publisher: New York, NY : First Run/Icarus Films, [1986?]
Edition/Format:   VHS video : VHS tape : Partial animation   Visual material : EnglishView all editions and formats
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The decrepit caretaker of a museum activates a Kinetoscope machine. The puppet figure of a man is conjured into motion. Severing the wires from which he hangs, he explores the "Street of Crocodiles," a suite of near-derelict rooms. He watches robotic figures in a strange workshop, is harassed by a mischievous boy, and eventually finds himself dissected, remodelled, and reclothed in the inner recesses of a dubious  Read more...
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Material Type: Partial animation, Videorecording
Document Type: Visual material
All Authors / Contributors: Keith M Griffiths; Larry Sider; J Collins; Leszek Janowski; Bruno Schulz; British Film Institute.; Channel Four (Great Britain); First Run/Icarus Films.; Brothers Quay.
OCLC Number: 80729743
Notes: Based on: Sklepy cynamonowe / Bruno Schulz.
VHS.
Credits: Produced by Keith M. Griffiths ; sound montage, Larry Sider ; live action camera, J. Collins ; music, L. Jankowski ; animation, puppets, the Brothers Quay.
Description: 1 videocassette (22 min.) : sd., col. with b&w; sequences ; 1/2 in.
Details: VHS format.
Other Titles: Ulica Krokodyli.
Responsibility: a British Film Institute with Channel Four Television.

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The decrepit caretaker of a museum activates a Kinetoscope machine. The puppet figure of a man is conjured into motion. Severing the wires from which he hangs, he explores the "Street of Crocodiles," a suite of near-derelict rooms. He watches robotic figures in a strange workshop, is harassed by a mischievous boy, and eventually finds himself dissected, remodelled, and reclothed in the inner recesses of a dubious tailoring establishment.

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