JP Somersaulter's Premiere Cartoon Cartoon Print #1

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You You Well hello there, I am JP summer Salter This is my premier cartoon cartoon, and I'm glad that you could join me for it Right back here.

You'll find the famous dark cave of mystery which appears in all of my films I Wish you would sit still I can't stomach an audience that squirms in its seat Now here you see the object in question.

Well, what do you think? All right, I don't care.

What do you think anyway? I'm here to do a few drawings for you.

So let's get to it Here's the avant -garde novelist with orange glove This one I call creation of the mod world at the expense of the god of continuity This man is looking into a mirror and saying oh When will I ever get a creeping juniper? six foot blonde Medusa Frightened peacock chicken with more than a baker's dozen pursued by abstract design By the way, did you get one of my cards? Here's a photo of my wife some good -looking woman, eh, oh I know what you're thinking the difference in our ages, right? Well, forget it.

She loves me and I love her besides.

I'm not as old as you think Oh, all right.

I put on a few pounds over the years who hasn't Here's a self -portrait probably the way you perceive me But this is how my beautiful wife sees me.

I can do that kind of self -portrait with my eyes closed Here's a sensitive symbolic rendering that you can name yourself and the companion piece And What do you think of this? Oh, don't let it frighten you.

I'll simply add the cave of mystery Donate the confounded hat and there it's ridiculous perfectly ridiculous And I know you you love the ridiculous That's how I make my living and that's how I feed my wife and give her a stylish life.

Oh, hello, dear You're just in time to catch the masterwork section of my premiere cartoon cartoon How about a little good luck kiss? so much for the rumors of domestic strife and Now it's time drum roll, please dear Announcing surf which summoning red flying fish at sunset Magnificent, isn't it? Although actually it's not quite perfect yet Just one more line perhaps one more a little more a little bit Oh drat Wouldn't you know what did you just know it a Lillian a man spends his life? Risking everything for cartooning the most profound of all art forms Learning developing growing finding that within the movement of a line all life can be captured Discovering that all emotions live within the pen Taking each breath to the accompaniment of visions glorious visions from other worlds Dedicating every single act of his life to the service of that higher order only then Only then to find that imperfect manual skills and human arrows prevent him from rendering these visions into crystalline symbols Powerful enough to unlock the sublime secrets and ultimate truth of life There I think I've got it this time.

I'm sure that this will wrap things up.

What do you think dear? It's ridiculous JP perfectly ridiculous You

Identifier

F.2016-01-0121

Date Of Production

1974

Abstract

In JP Somersaulter's Premiere Cartoon Cartoon, filmmaker JP Somersaulter narrates and illustrates his own creative process. In the film, a cartoonified JP engages the viewer in conversation and describes a series of idiosyncratic illustrations as they appear onscreen ("Frightened peacock-chicken with more than a baker's dozen pursued by abstract design"). Both playful and personal, the film follows the thread of an artistic mind.

Run Time

0:05:27

Format

16mm

Extent

200 feet

Color

Color

Sound

Optical

Reel/Tape Number

1/1

Has Been Digitized?

Yes

Language Of Materials

English

Element

Print

Genre

Experimental

Form

Animations

Subject

Drawing
Creativity

Related Collections

Somersaulter-Moats and Somersaulter Collection

Main Credits

Somersaulter, JP (is director)

Somersaulter-Moats and Somersaulter (is production company)

Additional Credits

Somersaulter Moats, Lillian (is contributor)

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