Sonatina Lunare (Dance Of The Moon Matrons)

A tribute to Georges Méliès.

Play It Again, Anton...

Major Strasser was hot on Harry's heels.

There was only one way out of Berlin before Paris fell. Harry hired a fishing boat. They sailed at night.

As they navigated the Channel in pouring rain and fog the two stood on deck arm in arm gazing at England.

Lightning flashed.

All they could see was cats and dogs.

They swayed slowly in the dampness. They were safe. Strasser would never catch them now.

Then the shortwave crackled.

"Livestock QUARANTINE", yelled the captain to Harry.

"We must detour through Lisbon then", said Tex, "But to get into Libson we need...."

"Imaginary zither music!", said Harry.

Below decks they polished off the last of the black market penicillin....

[copyright eac]
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Smaller version of an animation first published in 2006 on another site as part of series of animated GIFs.

Front Money (Animated Anaglyph)

N.B.: This is a three frame red-blue anaglyph in animated .GIF deliberately designed to be seen two ways: (1) with red-blue 3D glasses (red left, blue right), and (2) by the naked eye, without 3D glasses, but with enough discrimination to be easily recognized as a single image and with a slight naked eye red-blue stereoscopic effect. The attempt to create these "ambianaglyphic" animations dates back to 2003, when this animation appeared on another site. This animation is an early effort. It is a negative anaglyph, with depth in rather than out but with some projection of the dollar sign beyond the screen when viewed with red-blue glasses.

Something Fishy (Surrealistic Tuna)

"The cowbell is a symbol of unbridled passion, ladies and gentlemen..."

[Frank Zappa]

Vremya

"I agree that two times two makes four is an excellent thing; but if we are dispensing praise, then two times to makes five is sometimes a most charming little thing as well."

[Fyodor Dostoyevsky, tr. M. Ginsburg]
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Zhemchug (Margarita Aloft)

"I'll tell you a fairy tale," said Margarita, and put her hand on top of the boy's close-cropped head, "Once upon a time there was a lady. She had no children and no happiness either. At first she cried for a long time, but then she became wicked..." Margarita fell silent, and took her hand away--the boy was sleeping."

[Mikhail Bulgakov, tr. Burgin & O'Connor]
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LED

"A light-emitting diode (LED)... is an electronic light source. The LED was first invented in Russia in the 1920s, and introduced in America as a practical electronic component in 1962. Oleg Vladimirovich Losev was a radio technician who noticed that diodes used in radio receivers emitted light when current was passed through them. In 1927, he published details in a Russian journal of the first ever LED...."

[wikipedia s.v. "LED"]
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