[Video showed a animated film titled, "Tag! You're It!"
Video stars Sunny, a black haired girl in a dress who is based on "Woodblock Print No 1. Hanako" c. 1920. by Takehisa Yumeji (1884 - 1934) & Pippin, a girl with brown braids, wearing a tank top and loose capris, who is based on the illustrations of Marguerite Davis (1881 - 1972).
An instrumental version of "Sing. Sing. Sing", a swing song performed by Benny Goodman and his Orchestra in 1937, plays throughout the piece.
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Video starts with a night watchman walking through an art museum with his flashlight. The light shines on a mosaic displaying the title. As the watchman passes, we zoom in on a small painting of a girl beside a pair of large flowers.
This is Sunny. She looks below her feet, smiles, and leaps out of her painting onto the bed of a girl in an illustration below her. The girl, Pippin, sits up and grins at Sunny. They get up and hug, and then Sunny braces herself, tags Pippin, and races out of the painting. The text "Tag, you're it!" surrounds Pippin as she prepares to launch herself after her friend.
They run through various types of art, occasionally tagging each other and switching who is It. They're obviously having a lot of fun.
Their design shifts to match each piece they move through, and the text "Tag!" appears in the native language/script of the piece's artist. We zoom out to see a staircase with painting covering the walls, the tiny girls visible briefly in the various pieces as the race from illustration to painting to line art.
The art gets older as they travel, until they're causing Greek amphorae to rock as they spin around them, and running past Ancient Egyptian figures. Finally, they fall out of the wall onto a cave floor.
Sunny checks to make sure Pippin is okay. They reassure each other, and then clasp each other's hands, wandering out onto a cliff edge. Around them, giant cave paintings of animals race past them as they watch in awe. Pippin turns to Sunny with a sly grin, then slowly lowers herself to the ground. Sunny follows her, and they sit together, watching history pass.
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Final credits state that it was directed and animated by Clea Lim Taylor.
More credits under cut:
With Help From Mia Bryson – Additional Color
L Alia Crotty – Hokusai Text Consultant
Special Thanks to: My friends & family, who each brought their odd expertise to this film when they could. My teachers, past & present. And to Museum Online Collections & Public Library Databases.
SVA Animation. New York City.
Featuring / Inspired By
(Note: video includes full art titles and source IDs, I’ve only transcribed the artists.)
Nouveau Ads section: William Henry Bradley, W. (the unknown artist of Klondike March Century. 1896), and William L. Carqueville
Turn of The Century section: Félix Vallotton, William H. Johnson, and Henry Matisse.
Hallways section: Sheilah Beckett, Armando Reveron, and Suzanne Valadon.
The Stairwell section: Cyril Edward Power, Emilio Pettoruti, J.C. Leyendecker, N.C. Wyeth, Hans Emmenegger, Félix Vallotton, John Singer Sargent, Leopoldo Metlicovitz, Sarong (Kain Lepas), Vincent van Gogh, John William Waterhouse, Utagawa Hiroshige, Katsushika Hokusai, and Habiballah of Sava.
Also featuring the Master of the Court of Mankot, Northern Highlands Artist, Terracotta Krater, and Name Rings of Fubject Nations Beneath the King’s Throne.
And Cave Paintings at Altamira, Chauvet, Lascaux, Lubang Jeriji Saléh, Liang Metanduno, Gabarnmung, and others.
Seriously though, the way some people treat liking media as if it has an expiration date is so weird to me. And three years is still so recent in the grand scheme of things anyway, actually!
women will say "kill all men" and the only result is the bruising of the male ego. men will say "kill all women" and next thing you know there's worldwide femicide, child marriage, human trafficking, stripped autonomy by way of restrictive legislation... need i go on
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