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Summer Travelling
Delayed trains, crowded carriages, and standing room only: Blitz spirit makes a parent's nightmare commute a walk in the park
Overview
Picture the worst commute you can imagine β delayed trains, a sweltering crowded carriage and no spare seats. Add in a couple of kids, luggage, buckets and spades and five years of sacrifice, hardship and nightly bombings... Are we nearly there yet? It's asking a lot for a cartoon to bolster the Blitz spirit enough to withstand such travails, but in retrospect this public information short is a jolly affair.
Filmed with minimal animation, this shoestring budget short relies on crisp modern design for its effectiveness. The Larkins Studio, under the artistic guidance of German Γ©migrΓ© Peter Sachs, would develop into a ground breaking animation studio that fused experimental spirit with cutting edge graphics.
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