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**Salvage** a film by John Parry

1998, 4 min 11 sec

[watch this film ›](https://animateprojectsarchive.org/films/by_date/1995_98/salvage/)

![Salvage, still](https://animate.org.uk/stillslarge/salvage01.jpg)

### animate! synopsis

*You’d be crazy for feeling so lonely*… From scrapbook bodies to outlines filled with light, there’s collage in the chaos and dance tunes in the abstract visual music. Take two…

### long synopsis

Commercial animation by-products were collected over five years. As a cathartic process, the rejected was reclaimed, and then rejected, finally.

The resulting material was compiled and edited in post production to make a five minute film. The context was to use the same production values as advertising material. So it is glossy, colourful and eternally shallow.

### key credits

**director**
John Parry

**rostrum camera**
Jeremy Moorshead

**editor**
Roy Williams

**music**
Barry Quinton

**sound designer**
Barry Quinton

**producer**
Danielle Susijn

### John Parry

#### short biography

John Parry studied at the Royal College of Art and is Professor of Animation at Savannah College of Art and Design. He has worked in commercial animation as a director for Picasso Pictures since 1994.

1998

### a film by John Parry

### direction

**director**
John Parry

### image personnel

**telecine operator or colourist**
Mark Horrobin

**rostrum camera**
Jeremy Moorshead

**editor**
Roy Williams

### sound personnel

**music**
Barry Quinton

**dubbing mixer**
Oliver Davis

**sound designer**
Barry Quinton

### incorporated music and sound material

*Crazy* written by W Nelson 1961,
performed by Patsy Cline, courtesy Acuff-Rose Music Ltd and Universal Music (UK) Limited

### production personnel

**post production**
Andy Godwin
Mark Holden

**producer**
Danielle Susijn

### support

**thanks**
Picasso Pictures, The Moving Picture Company

**primary funding**
Arts Council of England/Channel Four Animate! award

© John Parry 1998

[![Salvage, still](https://animate.org.uk/stillslarge/salvage01.jpg)](https://animate.org.uk/stillsfull/salvage01.jpg)

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[![Salvage, still](https://animate.org.uk/stillslarge/salvage02.jpg)](https://animate.org.uk/stillsfull/salvage02.jpg)

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[![Salvage, still](https://animate.org.uk/stillslarge/salvage03.jpg)](https://animate.org.uk/stillsfull/salvage03.jpg)

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[![Salvage, still](https://animate.org.uk/stillslarge/salvage04.jpg)](https://animate.org.uk/stillsfull/salvage04.jpg)

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### master copy format

**colour or black & white**
colour

### video distribution format

**video format**
BetaSP

**screen aspect ratio**
4:3

**video standard**
PAL

**sound type**
stereo

### distributor

LUX
[info@lux.org.uk](mailto:info@lux.org.uk)
+44 (0)20 7503 3980
[www.lux.org.uk](http://www.lux.org.uk/)

**Salvage** film, stills and other materials © John Parry 1998