Storytime, A Wonderfully Absurd Series of Cutout Animated Short Created by Terry Gilliam

“Storytime”, a wonderfully absurd series of cutout animated shorts created by Terry Gilliam. It was his first film and established the style of animation that he would use in Monty Python’s Flying Circus and Monty Python films. The three shorts are “Don the Cockroach” and “The Albert Einstein Story” which were originally broadcast on the 1971-72 television series The Marty Feldman Comedy Machine and “The Christmas Card”, which was created for the 1968 Christmas special Do Not Adjust Your Set.

Scott Beale
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Scott Beale founded Laughing Squid in 1995 in San Francisco and is currently based in New York City. When not running the blog, Scott can be found posting on Bluesky and sharing photos on Instagram.