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The helpful David J. Schow sent along a link to a video about an avant-garde electronic music pioneer named Delia Derbyshire, posted by Umberto Santos on YouTube. Ms. Derbyshire’s heyday was the 1960s, at the BBC.

BBC had something called the ‘Radiophonic Workshop,’ where she spent her time creating electronic music.

The featured item forwarded by David is a minimalist piece called ‘Falling’ from 1964, posted by one Umberto Santos. It’s …. unusual.

Miss Derbyshire 

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And, as circulated by Joe Dante, Kyle MacNeill of The Guardian lauds what David Allen repeatedly called a ‘Lost Art’: Stop-Motion Animation.  In 1973, when David was holding court on artistic opinions, Stop-Motion was becoming a Lost Art, ghetto-ized in Pillsbury Doughboy TV commercials. Nowadays it’s quite a busy racket for feature films, with descriptions of giant stop-motion farms with dozens of setups, often with scores of identical miniature sets. Some Stop-Motion features have been recorded on iPhones. An Aardman director might stay on-site to supervise, but we’ve heard of ‘hands on’ directors micromanaging material being filmed in London, as it is relayed to him on a beach on the other side of the world.

The article is

Skeleton warriors and Plasticine Chickens:
Why Stop-Motion Animation is still going strong a century on.
Just looking at the  King Kong photograph reminds me that I need to see that picture again soon — it must have been 10 years since the last spin. The same goes for  Jason and the Argonauts; I bet it will play better than ever. I must drag  The Valley of Gwangi out once a year, along with  The Golden Voyage of Sinbad — to at least see the Allosaurus roping round-up and the six-armed Kali battle.  The 7th Voyage of Sinbad I should give a break to — when I watch it these days I tend to free-associate, because it’s just too familiar. But maybe Ms. Kathryn Grant deserves an appreciative nod…

Isn’t it time all those pictures were remastered in 4K?   Just askin’.

Thanks for reading! — Glenn Erickson