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The Calligrapher

The Calligrapher Online

  • Genres: Animation
  • Release Date: 01/01/1991
  • Duration : 1 minute
  • Director: Timothy Quay, Stephen Quay
  • Production: BBC
  • Country: United Kingdom
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Overview:

With harpsichord music in the background, a dandy, seated at a table, plucks a quill pen from a ceiling full of them above him, dips it in ink, thinks, then draws a straight line down the page in front of him, out of which sprout six more quill pens, each held by a hand. The calligrapher moves all the hands and pens in unison, drawing an elaborate feathered wing, which comes to live, peeling off the page, and, now a quill pen, slips in to his hand. He tucks it behind his left ear.

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