This animation short is made using the film leader (the bit before the film reel begins that only the projectionist sees) sourced from one of the first technicolor films, "The Wizard of Oz" (1939). The original film starts in the black and white drab real world and suddenly converts to colour as Dorothy finds herself in the land of Oz. Apparently the contemporary audience audibly gasped at that moment. This animation is an attempt to celebrate and look back at that moment in cinematic history and reveal the otherwise hidden side of cinema. It is animated to a rejected movie soundtrack by Wayne Urquhart. A kind of ode to the unseen and unheard of cinema. It was first screened at Tyneside Cinema in December 2011.
—K. Goodwin