Watch the Surrealist Glass Harmonica, the Solely Animated Movie Ever Banned by Soviet Censors (1968)

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The Sovi­et Union’s repres­sive state cen­sor­ship went to absurd lengths to con­trol what its cit­i­zens learn, seen, and lis­tened to, resembling the virtually com­i­cal elimination of purged for­mer com­rades from pho­tographs dur­ing Stalin’s reign. When it got here to aes­thet­ics, Stal­in­ism most­ly purged extra avant-garde ten­den­cies from the humanities and lit­er­a­ture in favor of didac­tic…

An Oscar-Profitable Animation of Ernest Hemingway’s “The Previous Man and the Sea” Painted on 29,000 Frames of Glass

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Ernest Hemingway’s roman­tic adven­ture of man and mar­lin, The Previous Man and the Sea, has per­haps spent extra time on highschool recent­man Eng­lish learn­ing lists than any oth­er work of fic­tion, which could lead one to think about the nov­el as younger grownup fic­tion. However past the ebook’s abil­i­ty to com­mu­ni­cate broad themes of per­se­ver­ance,…