Spook Sport
It's midnight in a graveyard. The principal characters are spooks, ghosts, bats, bells, and, at the end, the sun. As midnight strikes, 12 spooks appear, then two ghosts. They move to the music's rhythm. Against the black night, th...
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"Spook Sport (1940) *** (out of 4) The story is quite simple as the setting is a graveyard at night where there are bats, bells, ghosts and spooks. This animated film from Mary Ellen Bute and Norman McLaren is quite simply very fascinating to say the least. During the opening credits we are given a title card that shows us various shapes and it tells us what characters those shapes are playing. From here the use of music shows off the various shapes and their haunting of this graveyard. There's no question that this animated film is very "artsy" and that it's not going to..."
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It's midnight in a graveyard. The principal characters are spooks, ghosts, bats, bells, and, at the end, the sun. As midnight strikes, 12 spooks appear, then two ghosts. They move to the music's rhythm. Against the black night, th...