This led directly to the commissioning of five similarly constructed films (' Conversation Pieces').
Although these two films ('Down and Out' and 'Confessions of a Foyer Girl') were disregarded by the BBC they were seen a couple of years later by Jeremy Isaacs who was creating the shape of the newly formed Channel Four. Peter and David had always thought there was an adult audience for animated films, and in 1978 made two short films using real-life soundtracks, for BBC Bristol under the guidance of Colin Thomas. We'd like ten of those for our first week's transmission.'" These were the 5 shorts of Conversation Pieces, and later the five short of the Lip Synch series. And he called us up to the London office.and said 'I've seen that film Down and Out. We sent the small amount of work we had, which was basically Down and Out and some kids' stuff. History ĭavid Sproxton said "That was the first film of five minutes we had ever made and the first we had ever done using found sound, produced by a big producer called Colin Thomas.
In this short, creators David Sproxton and Peter Lord "applied the groundbreaking technique of using recorded conversations of real people as the basis for the script". It is part of the Animated Conversations series. Down and Out is a 1977 short film created by Aardman Animations.
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