"An animated film starring Tom Waits.

Performed for us live (at the La Brea stage in Hollywood, 1978), and rotoscoped - a process that traces back the live action frame by frame and turns it into animation.

The original live action was shot with 5 cameras - 2 high, 2 low and one hand held. The music from "The One That Got Away" blared in the background as Tom sang karaoke style different lyrics on each take. Two strippers, 6 takes and 13 hours of video footage were edited to make a 5 1/2 minute live action short which we turned into animation. A total of 5500 live action frames were hand traced, caricatured, re-drawn, hand inked and painted onto celluloid acitate cels.

Produced by Lyon Lamb, directed by John Lamb, the film bore some cool new technology, talent and was created specifically for a video music market that didn't yet exist. But the buzz was out and we went on to create what arguably may be the first music video created for the new and upcoming MTV market.

A series of unfortunate events prohibited the film from ever being released or sold commerciallly, consequently catapulting it into obscurity... until now,thanks You Tube!

In 1979, an Academy Award was presented to Lyon Lamb for the technology used in this short.

To learn more about this amazing lost film, go to ....TomWaitsLibrary.com and Wikipedia"

Hey, do we have a consensus on animated boobs? I assume that your boss or 10-yr old probably don't want to walk in on you watching a 70s animated stripper... so this classifies as NSFW under my understood usage of it.

Do we have a general rule about 'sexy' animated boobs? In general nsfw? Is this a lame discussion... What a sad world we live in. Technically where I live it is not indecent for women to go topless. So technically I *might* look out the window and see topless woman. Though not in 10degF weather. So really boobs are just boobs...

marked NSFW, like these other animated boobs

Hopefully the lack of lip-sync is due to bad encoding. Otherwise, it's just not that good. I guess they didn't have a camera close enough to capture his lip movements, and didn't have animators skilled enough to properly animate based on the words of the song.

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Promoting this video back to the front page; last published Wednesday, February 7th, 2007 6:01pm PST - promote requested by Farhad2000.

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