The Monkey and The Engineer

The Monkey and The Engineer

16mm, color, sound, 5.5 min
Once upon a time an engineer had a monkey who watched everything he did, wherever he went in his locomotive. One day the engineer went to get something to eat and left the monkey by himself. The monkey ...
Rental format: 16mm

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Once upon a time an engineer had a monkey who watched everything he did, wherever he went in his locomotive. One day the engineer went to get something to eat and left the monkey by himself. The monkey got tired of waiting so he pulled the throttle and down the road he went... From a song by Jesse Fuller, with Bill Rice and Hugh Burckhardt, sets by Tom Burckhardt, and music by Marc Ribot.

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