Lautrec

Henri de Toulouse Lautrec’s monogram. Rotoscoped image of Can-Can dancers, followed by animated versions of Lautrec’s paintings of dancers and La Goulou. Animation of Lautrec’s sketch of himself drinking and drawing in the Moulin Rouge. Animation of Lautrec painting of Yvette Guilbert singing. Photographs of Guilbert, and of semi-nude women. Photographs of Lautrec. Animated scenes from Histoires Naturelles (1899): fox, mouse, toad, sparrowhawk, snail, duck. Animated circus scenes. Miscellaneous humorous sketches. FIN. Credits.

Animation:
Cancan Dancers, Jill Brooks,
Yvette Guilbert, Ginger Gibbons,
Histoires Naturelles, Len Lewis,
Oscar Grillo;
Additional Animation Oscar Grillo,
Geoff Dunbar;
Colour Drawings Janet Archer,
Jill Brooks;
Camera Gary Knowelden;
Original Music Laurie Scott-Baker;
D’elle à lui sung by Yvette Guilbert,
by kind permission of Marinier - Editions Spera and Pathé Marconi – Paris;
Editing and Sound Terry Brown;
Design and Direction Geoff Dunbar.
Produced at Dragon Productions in association with the Arts Council of Great Britain.
Final animation based on Equestrienne (At the Circus Fernando, 1887–1888).