we have a question!

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beadge awoke from a nearly month long slumber to realize that the alarm clock I was referring to was the one that the Crocodile ate in Peter Pan.

It was an interesting answer because although an alarm clock is a common thing in literature and movies, there are few that play such an integral role. There are quite a few that begin an adventure, but of those, I think few stand out. There aren't many that define a character like this one does.

Can you think of any other significant alarm clocks?

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[lonita.livejournal.com]

The one in the film "Groundhog Day" and the ones in Pink Floyd's "Time"

[seamusd.livejournal.com]

Strawberry Alarm Clock, but that doesn't count. Or does it?

Oh hell, now my mind is blank...

[banana.livejournal.com]

Alarm clocks are used to humorous effect in the film Four Weddings and a Funeral.

[serendipity.livejournal.com]

Oops, the exploding alarm clock was actually a gadget in "License to Kill," not "Goldfinger." At least I got the James Bond part right.

You might find this of interest

[serendipity.livejournal.com]

In summer 2001, the University of Wisconsin-Madison welcomes Peter Sís as an Arts Institute Interdisciplinary Artist in Residence.

The Department of Art, the Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC), and the Elvehjem Museum of Art are cosponsors of his residency. The noted illustrator, author, and animation filmmaker will teach a course on illustration in the Department of Art, be the subject of book discussions at the CCBC, have an exhibition of his work and give a public lecture and book-signing at the Elvehjem.

Peter Sís was born in Brno, Czechoslovakia in 1949. His mother was an artist and his father a filmmaker. Peter grew up in Prague, under the Communist regime. Peter says, "I started to draw at an early age. I drew all the time, on every available surface. Gradually I decorated the whole house, the light switches, the chairs . . ."

He attended the Academy of Applied Arts in Prague from 1968 to 1974, where he was D.J. of a rock music program and cofounder of a political student magazine. In 1977 he spent a year at the Royal College of Art in London. He had his first solo art exhibition in Prague in 1974; his first American solo exhibition was in 1990 at the Ohio University School of Art. He regularly exhibits in both group and solo shows in the U.S., Europe, and Asia. He uses oil pastels or makes intricate pen-and-ink drawings washed with delicate watercolors. Sís spoke about his style in a talk he gave on the UW-Madison campus in March 1999: "My work is called sophisticated, but it may be just time-consuming. If my writing is complex and intricate, it is because my thinking is. My desire is to be as simple and clear as possible."

Sís made his first animated film, "Mimikry," in 1975. This film, which used a surrealistic style to present his own antiviolence message, was about a kind of butterfly that mimics the look of a death's head to ward off predators. His animated film "Island for 6,000 Alarm Clocks, A Modern Fairy Tale" (in which alarm clocks were so tired of being punched every morning, they escaped into their own world) was banned in Czechoslovakia. His film "Heads," an homage to the art of Arcimboldo, won the Golden Bear Award for an animated short at the 1980 West Berlin Film Festival. When his films were included in a Los Angeles animated film festival in 1982, the Czech government permitted him to attend. Sís decided to stay in the United States and was granted asylum. His first American film was an animated short for MTV based on Bob Dylan's song "You Gotta Serve Somebody," which won the Cine Golden Eagle Award.

For the rest of the article, see: http://www.arts.wisc.edu/view.html?get=peter_sis

Re: You might find this of interest

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

Thanks, I'll keep an eye out.