The Joy of Life
About The Joy of Life
In Anthony Gross and Hector Hoppin's drawn film, a fair-haired woman and a dark-haired woman move through a power station, a forest, a lake, and a railway yard. One loses a shoe. A workman picks it up and follows them. The chase is the picture. Tibor Harsányi wrote the music.
Cast & crew
More about The Joy of Life
The French title is La Joie de vivre. Gross and Hoppin made the drawings. The Imperial War Museum print is 1,000 feet and runs 11 minutes, with music only. Gross, an English artist working in France, also made Une Journée en Afrique and Les Funérailles in the same period.
Themes
Music
Tibor Harsányi wrote the music. The Imperial War Museum copy has no dialogue.
Preservation
The Imperial War Museum holds a 35mm print, catalogued as COI 48, running 11 minutes.
Notes
- The dresses are drawn so the cloth keeps moving after the figures do.
- The lost shoe is what starts the workman after them.
- The settings change without a realistic link: plant, trees, water, rail yard.
Scenes
- A shoe comes off, and the workman carries it after the two women into the next setting.