Picture in Your Mind 75 years old

Sent by the U.S. government as a participant in the Marshall Plan with a specific mission to assist the French in re-gearing their animation studios, Stapp discovered a Europe much-decimated by war, but in further danger of annihilation by nuclear weapons. Returning to the U.S., he produced this alarming-yet-hopeful film, replete with its lonely, Tanguy-inspired landscapes peopled with static figures casting long shadows across charcoal-colored plains. While taking the risk of leaning a bit toward didacticism, Stapp managed to urgently convey the thought that world destruction was not necessarily inevitable, provided that people embrace, rather than reject their cultural and racial differences. ‘Picture’ is a unique document resulting from the sometimes dreamy, sometimes nightmarish vision of the artist in a war-torn land, with the spectre of death hovering ever-so-slightly ahead.

Credits

Picture in Your Mind Cast

Name Character
Walter Abel He was 49, 88 years old when he died as Narrator

Picture in Your Mind Crew

Name Department
Philip Stapp as Director. Directing
Philip Stapp as Writer. Writing
Picture in Your Mind poster
Picture in Your Mind (75 years)

  • Release day: Sunday, April 04, 1948
  • Runtime: 16 minutes