Odds Ends (1959)

Odds amp Ends is a sly comment on the collage film and Beat culture To discarded travel and advertising footage found at a local film laboratory Belson Shimane added a mélange of animationassemblages cutouts color fields and line drawingsand faux hipster narration by Jacobs credited via the anagram Rheny Bojacs punctuated by a bongo backing Strung together with doublespeak and non sequiturs the monologue skirts the edge of nonsense as Jacobs waxes on about poetry jazz reaching the public having a good time andalthough money doesnt countthe possibility of subsidy through grants Footage of champagne tropical beaches and exotic peoples intermingle with rhythmic drawings and stopmotion flights of fancy The visuals race on through dazzling transformations both amplifying and undercutting the patter National Film Preservation Foundation