{"id":9680,"date":"2012-01-25T17:00:16","date_gmt":"2012-01-25T22:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/?p=9680"},"modified":"2012-01-25T13:02:49","modified_gmt":"2012-01-25T18:02:49","slug":"swept-away-by-and-for-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/swept-away-by-and-for-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Swept Away by (and for) Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>My Old Kentucky Blog<\/em>\u00a0<a title=\"My Old Kentucky Blog: 'Film: Two Adventures in Shorts'\" href=\"http:\/\/www.myoldkentuckyblog.com\/?p=26179\" target=\"_blank\">recently highlighted<\/a>\u00a0two of the films nominated for this year&#8217;s Oscar in the short-animations category. One of them really struck me, and I think it will really strike you as well &#8212; if you are someone who&#8217;s ever had a little jolt of excitement at opening a new book&#8230; or dreamt of adding one to the bookshelves yourself: <em>The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore<\/em>. (Note: it&#8217;s fifteen minutes long &#8212; fifteen <em>well-spent<\/em>\u00a0minutes long.)<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/35404908?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"601\" height=\"338\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The filmmakers, Moonbot Studios, <a title=\"Moonbot Studios on Vimeo: 'The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore'\" href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/35404908\" target=\"_blank\">explicitly grant credit<\/a> to their sources of inspiration:\u00a0&#8220;in equal measures&#8230; Hurricane Katrina, Buster Keaton, <em>The Wizard of Oz<\/em>, and a love for books.&#8221; (As <em>MOKB<\/em>\u00a0notes, you can find traces of <em>Up<\/em>\u00a0there, too.)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Old Kentucky Blog\u00a0recently highlighted\u00a0two of the films nominated for this year&#8217;s Oscar in the short-animations category. 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