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The Peanut Vendor (1933 film)

The Peanut Vendor is a black and white stop-motion short film created in 1933 by Len Lye. The short film is based off a song with the same name by El Manisero. There are two versions of the film, one that is 1 minute and 57 seconds long, and one that is 2 minutes and 48 secoonds long.

Original version

The film begins with text reading "Experimental Film 1933 (which is obviously the film's real name), " along with a shadow like hand moving it's fingers around, then it cuts to a tree dancing and then scrolls down to a monkey singing about how he is selling peanuts before he goes to sleep. Later in the video, the monkey removes his own tail from his body and uses it to wipe his own butt like a bath towel. Then it cuts back to the tree and the film ends.

Full version

The film begins with text reading "Experimental Film 1933 (which is obviously the film's real name), " along with a shadow like hand moving it's fingers around, then it cuts to a tree dancing and then scrolls down to a monkey singing about how he is selling peanuts before he goes to sleep. Later in the video, the monkey removes his own tail from his body and uses it to wipe his own butt like a bath towel, he also uses it to take off his own hat. Then it cuts back to the tree and the film ends.

Janet Priebe's upload

On December 8, 2006, a user named Janet Priebe uploaded a video titled "The Peanut Vendor - Len Lye 1933." The description of the video reads "This is the creepiest puppet film ever made, an experimental piece by filmmaker Len Lye in 1933."

Len Lye

Leonard Charles Huia Lye (/laɪ/; 5 July 1901 – 15 May 1980) was a New Zealand artist known primarily for his experimental films and kinetic sculpture. His films are held in archives including the New Zealand Film Archive, British Film Institute, Museum of Modern Art in New York City, and the Pacific Film Archive at University of California, Berkeley. Lye's sculptures are found in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Albright-Knox Art Gallery and the Berkeley Art Museum. Although he became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1950, much of his work went to New Zealand after his death, where it is housed at the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery in New Plymouth.