Rhapsody of Steel
February 24th, 2008“The progress of man… is the progress of STEEL” says this cartoon by John Sutherland Productions, commissioned by U.S. Steel in 1956.
Below are the last four minutes; view all 22 amazing minutes in low-res Quicktime here.
The design is excellent throughout — the modern era is depicted in classic mid-century cartoon style, but the past is rendered in cartoon styles of antiquity, and the future looks just like a Heinlein paperback cover.
Dimitri Tiomkin’s score is a relentless progression of downbeats with very little melodic progression at all, like Stravinski played on a metronome.
(via ASIFA.)
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