The Peanut Vendor Complete Director's Cut - Len Lye (1933)

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Puppet animation featuring a monkey singing and dancing to the jazz song 'Peanut Vendor'. Film is a recut of the 1934 animation ‘Peanut Vendor’.

“Despite the interest generated by his first film, Tusalava (1929), the early 1930s were a difficult time for artist and animator Len Lye. A series of projects were abandoned through lack of funding, and he supported himself by designing book jackets. By 1934 he was doing relatively menial work in the Wembley studios of Associated Sound Film Industries, while trying to convince investors to back his latest project with his long-time friend and collaborator, Jack Ellitt, provisionally titled Quicksilver. Lye had already produced dozens of set and costume designs for this ambitious science-fiction musical comedy but, although an American producer eventually expressed interest, the film that emerged bore little relation to the original concept, and neither Lye nor Ellitt benefited financially.

In the meantime, Lye turned his attention to puppet animation. He scraped together enough funding and borrowed equipment to produce a three-minute short featuring his self-made monkey, singing and dancing to 'Peanut Vendor', a 1931 jazz hit for Red Nichols. The two foot high monkey had bolted, moveable joints and some 50 interchangeable mouths to convey the singing. To get the movements right, Lye filmed his new wife, Jane, a prize-winning rumba dancer. Ellitt assisted in synchronising the animation with the music.

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This man really showed up in town, started aggressively advertising his peanuts, did a dance, and then fucked off never to be seen again. What a fucking lad.

sin_decent
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i genuinely do not find this creepy, i think its absolutely fascinating and moreover surprising how good it looks despite there being very little others like it beforehand to take reference from. utterly brilliant piece of early animation.

cydrixar
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Honestly don't see how anyone finds this creepy. I think he's quite a charming lad selling some peanuts. The animation is quite impressive as well, seeing how Lye had made this while living off a shoe string income. Cute piece of stop motion history and a nice tune. Plus the colors of the vendor doll are quite popping and eye catching in real life, but it's obviously not visible in this film.

possiblyli
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He seems like such a kind a gentle creature 🥺

LucyHaskell-qxnu
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OH MY GOD. I never dreamed in a million years the full version would be released. Thanks so much for posting this!

michealsstepdad
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This is special and needs to be preserved at all costs.

adrianhopkins
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Even though I'm more fascinated by this than creeped out, the shots of him looking directly at the camera unsettles.

AToutof
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He amputated his own tail just to sell some peanuts.. This man's dedication is unbeatable. What could his motive possibly be?

SweetTeaConnoisseur
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The animation is so smooth especially at the time. for someone who has made stop motion animation before I know how painfully hard it can be to make the characters move smoothly but for 1933 this looks great

Disconnected
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For being one of the hardest things to animate, the chimp’s tail is actually incredibly smooth.

thebamboozlerette
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Monkey thing: *walks away* Tree: Uhh, here's your peanuts?

cablecar
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Oh wow! I was really not expecting for this. It's great that we finally found the missing scenes after years. Now we can all aprecciate this historic animation for full now. Thank you for the great find, another lost media case closed :D

pedroarthur
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Charming tune. And funny animation. How can anyone in their right mind could consider this as scary?

Berokymilk
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This used to genuinely terrify me when I was younger, but I think I've come around to appreciating how weird it is and how impressive the stop motion is for the early 30s. The monkey is just quite charming now, even if he's got his unfortunate bug eyes.

lickswizards
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This is the clearest print of this video I’ve seen! And I love the dancing tree lifting the basket of peanuts up to the lady’s window at the end!🐒🥜

terrancebigham
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This like those weird dreams when you have the flu and a high fever.

super.
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It makes me so sad that people think this is creepy, I think it’s so beautiful and impressive

pgakt
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I don't even like peanuts, but this makes them sound good. 😄

elwoodjacobs
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Lyrics

Peanuts, peanuts
Little housewife right as the shadows start to creep
Buy a bag of peanuts now before you sleep

Oh lady do not close your door
You really could not ask for more
For peanuts, you will long for later on
Too late the peanut vendor will be gone
And then I am sure you will grieve so
But the vendor must go
Peanut vendor must go
Little housewife right as the shadows start to creep
Buy a bag of peanuts now before you sleep

(monkey starts to dance)


I go, I go, I go

lunitalw
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“Buy a bag of Peanuts now Before you Sleep” Well i might as well because im definitely not sleeping tonight

GorillaWithACellphone