Browsing the RSS feed of Mother Jones’s (smart, fearless journalism) articles I ran into this inspiring piece of animated illustration and typography. Surely you’ll find hundreds of animated “doc films” on popular video sites, but how many feature the {en:John Lennon} himself?
In 1969 Jerry Levitan, then 14 years old, found his way into John Lennon’s room in the King Edward Hotel in Toronto, with a tape recorder. Lennon, patient and generous (traits that would one day, alas, prove expensive), gave him a wonderful interview. Here is the brilliant animated short film made from that tape. Illustrated by James Braithwaite (L), directed by Josh Raskin (R), with Jerry today (my age). via Mother Jones