Waits sings on the streets.Waits sings on the streets.Waits sings on the streets.
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Donna Gordon
- Body Model for Animated Dancer
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- TriviaThis short was created by rotoscope - a process that traces back the live action frame by frame and turns it into animation. The original live action was shot with 5 cameras - 2 high, 2 low and one hand held. The music from "The One That Got Away" blared in the background as Tom Waits sang karaoke style different lyrics on each take. Two strippers, 6 takes and 13 hours of video footage were edited to make a 5 1/2 minute live action short which we turned into animation. A total of 5,500 frames were caricatured and then re-drawn, inked and painted by hand onto celluloid acetate to produce this film.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Tom Waits: The Acting Years (2019)
- SoundtracksThe One That Got Away
Written and Performed by Tom Waits
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A little 70s gem
This was my introduction to Tom Waits music: Personally, I think the video fits the song as a glove, capturing perfectly well its mood from beginning to end.
A shame John Lamb apparently hasn't directed anything else, I think it would have been very interesting to see more stuff done with this same style.
A shame John Lamb apparently hasn't directed anything else, I think it would have been very interesting to see more stuff done with this same style.
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- May 26, 2022
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