Quote:
"It [Begone Dull Care] was a film of accident, yes, of discovering the value of accidents. That's a very important thing in doing animation is to know the value of accidents and be alert to them, and see it [...] as a process of discovery. One of us would find something, and one of us would find something else, and there'd be mad excitement [...]. We went over to Woolworth's one day with a pair of calipers set to the width of a film, and we went around measuring all kinds of things on the counter that would make repeat patterns. The clerk in the store must have wondered who these funny people were, measuring the width of pieces of lace and..."
-- Evelyn Lambart
Source:
Eleven Moving Moments with Evelyn Lambart (Onze moments animés avec Evelyn Lambart). Directed by Donald McWilliams. National Film Board of Canada / Office national du film du Canada, 2017.