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... above a severed hand which is also well groomed, with nail varnish and a wedding ring. The very white plate and the impending dissection of the finger make this a very unsettling piece. Le Cadeau (The Gift) (Jacques Vasseur & Dick Roberts, France, 1961) This is a cartoon which uses misplaced sounds to shock its audience. It features a cow that honks, a horn that moos, and a baby that hollers marches. In this film the sound instead of the object is taken from its usual surroundings. This is on of the few examples of aural surrealism. 8 x 8 (Hans Richter, USA, 1957) This is a chess film in which Arp, Tanguy, Duchamp, and others perform as the chess pieces. The Lead Shoes (Sidney Peterson, USA, 1949) "The most accomplished work of America's foremost surrealist filmmaker. This is a hypnotic, obsessive nightmare of parricide and compulsive attempts to undo the deed. The basic images ...