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Monsieur Tête
- Title
- Monsieur Tête [motion picture] / Argos Films, Les Films Armorial.
- Publication
- Chicago : Films Incorporated, 1960.
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| Status | Vol/Date | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person. | C.1 REEL 1 OF 1 | Moving image | By appointment only | M16 4049 M C.1 REEL 1 OF 1 C.1 REEL 1 OF 1 | Offsite |
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- Description
- 1 film reel (12 min.) : sd., col.; 16 mm.
- Summary
- The bizarre and surrealistic adventures of Monsieur Tête, presented in cut-out animation, serve as a fable of contemporary life. Exercising at his window, the protagonist collapses and gets up with a vase of flowers on his head. As he ponders noble thoughts, his head becomes Shakespeare, Napoleon, and Charlie Chaplin. In an office where all movements are mechanical, the workers extract a dead mouse and a candle from him. Monsieur Tête attends a reception where the gourmands eat jewelry and gossip incessantly. He is incarcerated, hammers his head and argues with it. At the conclusion, Monsieur Tête wins decorations, loses his features and becomes a faceless figure with a guardian angel.
- Subject
- Credits (note)
- Directors, Jan Lenica, Henri Gruel.
- Title
- Monsieur Tête [motion picture] / Argos Films, Les Films Armorial.
- Imprint
- Chicago : Films Incorporated, 1960.
- Credits
- Directors, Jan Lenica, Henri Gruel.
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- Added Author
- Lenica, Jan.Gruel, Henri.
- Branch Call Number
- M16 4049 M