http://history.videosift.com/member/eleavitt VideoSift: Online Video *Quality Control en 2008 videosift.com Sun, 11 May 2008 08:52:56 -0700 History http://www.varocms.com http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification 15 http://static1.videosift.com/videosift/i/sifter_small.gifhttp://history.videosift.com/member/eleavitt http://history.videosift.com/video/I-Met-the-Walrus-Interview-with-John-Lennon <img src="http://static1.videosift.com/thumbs/i/me/I_Met_the_Walrus_Interview_with_John_Lennon.jpg" /><br />(33 votes - 11 comments - 1076 views)<br />In 1969, 14-year-old Jerry Levitan managed to snag a brief interview with John Lennon in his hotel room in Toronto. Using his reel-to-reel tape recorder, Levitan asked Lennon a series of questions about peace, popularity, and messages in music. The answers give us a portrait of Lennon at the end of his involvement with The Beatles.<br /> <br /> In 2007, Levitan collaborated with director Josh Raskin, illustrator James Braithwaite, and animator Alex Kurina to produce I Met the Walrus, a short animated film featuring a condensed version of the Lennon-Levitan interview set to sprawling stream-of-consciousness animation. The resulting film has won an AFI Award and was nominated for an Academy Award.<br /> <br /> It’s a strange little piece — five minutes of psychedelic rambling that, in the end, carries a message of hope. The advice Lennon gives Levitan here is simple: peace<br /> <br /> (Excerpted from Mental Floss)<br /> eleavitt (http://history.videosift.com/member/eleavitt)Animation History Philosophy http://history.videosift.com/video/I-Met-the-Walrus-Interview-with-John-Lennon http://history.videosift.com/video/I-Met-the-Walrus-Interview-with-John-Lennon Sun, 11 May 2008 08:52:56 -0700