Booktopus - Unfinished
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An unfortunately unfinished animation project from 2011.
Tags: booktopus library librarian octopus hazel monforton
Added: 1 year ago
From: hazelfo
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[scene opens on a bookshelf, as stop-motion animation is used to make the books appear to move back and forth on the shelves by themselves]
[cut to a closeup of one of the shelves, as a brown tentacle reaches up from off camera and takes a copy of Jerome Stolnitz's "Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art Criticism" off the shelf, pulling it down off camera]
Book*to*pus
noun (pl. -po*des)
a cephalopod mollusk with eight sucker-bearing arms, a soft saclike body, a strict adherence to order, and no internal shell.
Order Octopoda, class Librarius: Octopus and other genera.
[cut to the Booktopus (an octopus made of brown leather with buttons for eyes) holding the book and turning the pages with its tentacle]
Origin: early 21st cent.
from animator Hazel Monforton
(from the verb animare, from anima 'life, soul.' Contrast with inanimate, see note at ALIVE)
[cut to the Booktopus gently pushing the book back into its place on the shelf, then using all eight tentacles to propel itself upwards and "swim" off camera]
[cut to a closeup of one of the shelves, as a human hand reaches in and takes a copy of Francine Prose's "Guided Tours of Hell"]
[cut to another shelf, as another human hand begins pulling off several books ("Four Plays by Chekhov", "Six Great Modern Short Novels", and "The Iceman Cometh")]
[cut to another shelf, as another human hand reaches in and takes a copy of Pat Barker's "Regeneration Trilogy"]
[cut to the Booktopus sitting on the top shelf, looking down at all of this activity]
[cut back to the first shelf, as the human hand reaches in and (rather than shelving "Guided Tours of Hell" back in its original position) places it on top of the other books]
[cut back to the second shelf, as the human hand reaches in and places all of his books in a pile on the edge of the shelf (blocking the properly-shelved books)]
[cut back to the third shelf, as the human hand places "The Regeneration Trilogy" on top of the other books (with the spine facing inwards so that the title is unreadable)]
[cut back to the Booktopus on the top shelf, as it grabs its head in shock]
[cut to another shelf, as another human hand reaches in and takes the same copy of "Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art Criticism"]
[cut back to the Booktopus, as it curls up its tentacles in anger]
[cut to a wide-angle shot of the shelves, displaying all of the "damage" done to the Booktopus' carefully-arranged books]
[cut back to the first shelf, as a pair of tentacles reach up from off camera and re-shelves "Guided Tours of Hell" correctly]
[cut back to the second shelf, as a pair of tentacles reach up from off camera and takes the pile of books]
[cut to a closeup of the shelf, as the tentacles reach up from off camera and re-shelve the books correctly]
[cut back to the third shelf, as a tentacle reaches up from off camera and grabs "The Regeneration Trilogy"]
[cut to a closeup of the shelf, as the pair of tentacles reaches up from off camera and re-shelves the offending book correctly]
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