"Storytime" is an animated film, directed and animated by Terry Gilliam. The animation was done with a stop-motion technique, where cut-outs of art sketches are fused together by only the purest stream-of-consciousness train. Furthermore, it is a unique piece of animation for it distinguishes itself by the referential inter-titles that intrude on the narrative, making it chaotic. The film is a compilation of three small animation segments which Terry Gilliam has created, which displays his distorted view of life which stems from his whimsical and overactive imagination. Although it may seem as it is purely comical at random, the animation uses aspects of every-day social activity in a parodical and symbolic manner. For example, during the second segment "The Albert Einstein Story", people of different classes are associated with hands and feet, the former being aristocrat, and the latter more bourgeoisie. Gossip is spread around like wildfire as the feet are seen as dirty, right before a transition to a dance queue is done, preserving the whimsicality of the animation. Moreover, Terry Gilliam's style of animation is eternally linked with "Monty Python's Flying Circus", which makes this piece a pre-Pythonesque segment of comedy that would appease anyone who's familiar with "Monty Python". It's Terry's brilliance that places this animation in a new, quantum genre of comedy.
"Story Time" -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXW9b9O9S6A
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