Recognition

27. Fungi from Yuggoth, Part IV: Recognition

Year: 2003. Picts: None. Source: Web site The H. P. Lovecraft Film Festival (Schedule) [web link broken] says it’s fourth film to be shown at the festival / Entire film as a Flash video in WebCorben [Feb. 2009]. Length: 5 min 49 sec. Style: Toon person on CG animation [3D MAX?]. Story: “Recognition [H.P. Lovecraft]” / “The Scar [comics]”. Description: A man relives a childhood exploration of his fear of unusual ruins in ancient woods (in parallel time). Comics vs. animation: Similar plots, differes with details of interpreter.

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Breakdowns

• B&W: white titles on black
• B&W: weat fields, grey sky, wind
• B&W: on a background a white moon rising, tree shadows on it
• COL: a well dressed man with black shirt on B&W fields, wind, grey sky
• COL: close-up on man’s face, grey sky
• B&W: grey sky, some trees in mist, a white moon rising, tree shadows on it
• COL: close-up on man’s face, grey sky, B&W fields, a similar second COL man with red tie in the background
• COL: half close-up on the second man, grey sky
  • his black cap flies away
• B&W: a camera drive towards misty trees, grey sky
• B&W: a camera drive cut into mids of the thick, black trees and branches, some grey sky
• COL: a second man in a thick, B&W forest, grey sky
• COL: camera drive to the second man’s face, grey sky
• COL: a second man in B&W forest, grey sky, a black nude female tree figures appears behind him
• B&W: a close-up to the black tree figure, B&W forest and grey sky behind
• COL: a man in a red tie watches a black nude female tree figure dancing, B&W forest, grey sky
• B&W: a nude female tree figure dances, in a distance an another nude female tree figure, B&W forest, grey sky
• B&W: tilt to aside where a group of nude female tree figures dances, B&W forest, grey sky
• B&W: close-up to tree feet dancing, dark forest and forest bed behind
• B&W: several cut with dancing nude female tree figures, B&W forest, grey sky
• COL: an afraid man in a red tie kneels behind a stone, B&W forest, grey sky
• B&W: cut to dancing tree figures
• COL: a man talks (reads the original H.P. Lovecraft poem, “Recognition”)
• COL: man in a red tie wears short knee pants
• COL: in a B&W forest is a kind of stone with a red circle symbol, in the background B&W chimneys pushing black and yellow smoke out of them
• COL: close-up to chimneys and smoke
• COL: man in a red tie and knee pants climbs on the stone, chimneys behind
• COL: a roped COL leg and a hand towards black, red streams, black forest, grey sky
• COL: a black man’s head rises and goes back to the black
• COL: B&W tree figures appear behind man, they dance and kind of feast on a man
• COL: man in a red tie and knee pants watches from a stone
• COL: camera pans from a man up to the B&W sky, yellow and black smoke comes out of chimneys, a mood up in the sky
• B&W: camera pulls towards the moon, grey starry sky behind
• COL: a shocked man in a red tie
• COL: from black materialises bloody man, B&W forest and forest figures behind, grey sky
• COL: man in a red tie watches and disappear (“I knew it was I”)
• COL: bloody man laying hands and legs tied, tree figures and forest behind
• COL: camera pulls back and a bloody man lies on an altar, a circle red symbol under him, chimneys pushing yellow, black smoke, a moon above, black forest all around

Ending titles:

• Richard Corben
• images and sound
• © 2003
• the end