Miracle of Flight

The Miracle of Flight, including Miracle of Flight, is a British animated short film by Terry Gilliam from the year 1974, which was commissioned by the U.S. television.

Action

The speaker indicates that man can fly since the beginning of time wanted. Besides watching the birds animated him also the sound of a Boeing 707 in the sky. Experiments, it failed the birds equalize. Neither bird costume still tarring and feathering led to flying. Tentatively wide battered arms should mimic wings, people were briefly suspended in the air. A king even called numerous scientists to himself, to help him solve the riddle flight. He pushed her down successively into a high mountain, but no one could fly.

Flights with the help of attached to the poor birds failed due to old ladies who hinstreuten the birds feed. Only in the 20th century came with the discovery in a small town east of Miami, the apparent breakthrough: the ticket was invented and numerous other innovations in the sequence, from the airport to the stewardess. A man checks in for a flight and goes to the hangar. Here he is, as it once did the king, pushed from a high mountain. After impact, the speaker commented that mankind still have it not get it ( " Nope. Still not got it. ").

Production

The Miracle of Flight was one of a series of short films by Terry Gilliam designed in 1971 for The Marty Feldman Comedy Machine on ABC - TV. The film was thereby converted into the typical Gilliam cut- out animation. The film was shown, among others, in 1975 as the British entry at the Festival d' Animation Annecy and was considered at the time the longest, animated, based on a solid action film Gilliam.

Criticism

The contemporary critics wrote that the " pythoneske " absurdity of his humor with his animation style together perfectly WOULD and the film is beautifully maladjusted. Other critics pointed out that Gilliam a cheeky look at the attempts of man to fly in the movie, throw.