Entertainment I am looking for
Posted: 2011.08.05 (17:35)
The following things I remember having encountered at some point and have been looking for, for a long time and would appreciate anyone who could give me information on more than I could put into words.
A book I once read possibly. In one scene a man is in an elevator in some sort of suspicious building, he is possibly a detective. He counts the number of seconds between each floor and as one gap is twice as large as the others he deduces that there is a hidden floor. I think he then emergency stops the lift and gets to this floor.
A book about a young boy living in a poor family possibly with just his mum. One day they get a letter that a rich estranged relation is dying and may leave the boy his money but they have to go and live with this old man in a mansion. The old man has gout and is grumpy all the time but eventually softens. At one point the boy goes to a nearby town and meets an artist.
Edit: I remember this being a very old book one of those hard backs from before they had paper covers written in quite an old style like Dickens or similar (obviously not actually Dickens I've checked all his works for this)
A book about a mental hospital. Several of the inmates are not insane (according to the narrator) but are kept there by corrupt and abusive guards.
A book that starts with a man in a cell. He finds a trap door under his bed opens it and travels down into a fantasy world. Could be the same as above.
A children's book about an animal probably a snake who gets tricked out of his land maybe a pond by his uncle or some other relation when his father dies. He goes of on an adventure. At one point he meets an owl who is completely under the control of another animal possibly a rat. This rat has persuaded the owl that its parents hated it and that everyone else is against it. It uses this to manipulate the owl and control its whole life. The snake eventually returns to the pond at the end and gets his land back.
A short animation about a boy chasing a balloon. Its all black and white except the balloon which is red and at one point he runs up some stairs with the view shown from behind him and the balloon floats past the window.
Edit: the style of this was very photorealistic like it may have been rotoscoped though maybe not quite that realistic. I also remember it was featured somewhere because it was the runner up to a prize. Also by black and white here I mean I'm pretty sure it was a binary image as opposed to grayscale or literally only pure black and white no greys like a stencil excluding the balloon
A short animation black and white a head rolls down some runners in a machine Terry Gilliam style at the start. A weed tries to crawl through a gate and is chopped in half by a hidden guillotine in the gate. In the main part of the animation a man with a long face works one splicing the bones of some small skeletal specimen together. Then he sees a beautiful women in a dress she walks out of the room and he follows her she walks out of the house and through passes through the gate indicating she's a ghost. The man follows sticking his head through the gate looking after her. The guillotine chops his head of and it rolls down the contraption into the bottom of and hour-glass full of heads.
A short shock animation. really angsty colours a boy sits on a grassy hill. Then he walks past some buildings in a city its hard to see whats happening so you look closer then a face pops up and screams at you but not the typical exorcist face.
I'm sure there were some other things maybe I'll add them if I think of them (via edit). Would massively appreciate any help with any of these things feel free to post your own lost things and I'll help if I can. It is entirely impossible I imagined any or all of these things.
A book I once read possibly. In one scene a man is in an elevator in some sort of suspicious building, he is possibly a detective. He counts the number of seconds between each floor and as one gap is twice as large as the others he deduces that there is a hidden floor. I think he then emergency stops the lift and gets to this floor.
A book about a young boy living in a poor family possibly with just his mum. One day they get a letter that a rich estranged relation is dying and may leave the boy his money but they have to go and live with this old man in a mansion. The old man has gout and is grumpy all the time but eventually softens. At one point the boy goes to a nearby town and meets an artist.
Edit: I remember this being a very old book one of those hard backs from before they had paper covers written in quite an old style like Dickens or similar (obviously not actually Dickens I've checked all his works for this)
A book about a mental hospital. Several of the inmates are not insane (according to the narrator) but are kept there by corrupt and abusive guards.
A book that starts with a man in a cell. He finds a trap door under his bed opens it and travels down into a fantasy world. Could be the same as above.
A children's book about an animal probably a snake who gets tricked out of his land maybe a pond by his uncle or some other relation when his father dies. He goes of on an adventure. At one point he meets an owl who is completely under the control of another animal possibly a rat. This rat has persuaded the owl that its parents hated it and that everyone else is against it. It uses this to manipulate the owl and control its whole life. The snake eventually returns to the pond at the end and gets his land back.
A short animation about a boy chasing a balloon. Its all black and white except the balloon which is red and at one point he runs up some stairs with the view shown from behind him and the balloon floats past the window.
Edit: the style of this was very photorealistic like it may have been rotoscoped though maybe not quite that realistic. I also remember it was featured somewhere because it was the runner up to a prize. Also by black and white here I mean I'm pretty sure it was a binary image as opposed to grayscale or literally only pure black and white no greys like a stencil excluding the balloon
A short animation black and white a head rolls down some runners in a machine Terry Gilliam style at the start. A weed tries to crawl through a gate and is chopped in half by a hidden guillotine in the gate. In the main part of the animation a man with a long face works one splicing the bones of some small skeletal specimen together. Then he sees a beautiful women in a dress she walks out of the room and he follows her she walks out of the house and through passes through the gate indicating she's a ghost. The man follows sticking his head through the gate looking after her. The guillotine chops his head of and it rolls down the contraption into the bottom of and hour-glass full of heads.
A short shock animation. really angsty colours a boy sits on a grassy hill. Then he walks past some buildings in a city its hard to see whats happening so you look closer then a face pops up and screams at you but not the typical exorcist face.
I'm sure there were some other things maybe I'll add them if I think of them (via edit). Would massively appreciate any help with any of these things feel free to post your own lost things and I'll help if I can. It is entirely impossible I imagined any or all of these things.