item number 4836336072
NEW ORDER BLUE MONDAY 88 FLICKER BOOK FAC235
Fac 235 (December 1988)
Description: 30 page Flick Book, shape-cut and bound with plastic plugs 1988 Factory Christmas Gift. Main Book drawn and painted by Robert Breer Dust Jacket designed by Petet Saville Associates Printed by James Upton Printers, Birmingham.
* VERY RARE* 350 manufactured, 250 mailed out AN EXTREMELY RARE NEWORDER/FACTORY RECORDS ITEM. HAS SLIGHT WEAR ON CORNERS AND A FEW SCUFFS AND SLIGHT INDENTATIONS ON SURFACE BUT OTHERWISE IN VERY GOOD CONDITION FOR IT'S AGE. OWNED BY ME SINCE 1989.
ITEM HISTORY. New Order's video producer, Michael Shamberg, created a unique collaboration for the video for Blue Monday 1988, the Quincy Jones remix. He invited Robert Breer, the godfather of American Animation to work with Bill Wegman, the rising photographic star, whose pictures of his Weimaraner, Man Ray, were beginning to win him wide acclaim. All three working out of New York - Robert lived just up the Hudson - they created the video where Weimaraner and musicians seem to spend most of their time dodging tennis balls. Breer made a hand painted animation flick book featuring Bill Wegman's Fay Wray, and a stick, which was filmed for inclusion in the video. The band are also seen flicking the original book. Factory made exact copies of the hand painted book down to weight of card and shaping of edges and used them as their 88 Xmas gift. And it works too, just like Robert intended.
