The short film combines live action and animation. and Tony Vellani at the AFI, who wanted to know if Lynch could make The Grandmother for $5,000 (it eventually cost $7,200). He sent the script and a print of The Alphabet to the AFI in Washington. Lynch submitted The Alphabet, and wrote a script for a short film entitled The Grandmother. Keeler's brother-in-law had been involved in setting up the AFI. After the success of The Alphabet, one of Lynch's friends, Bushnell Keeler, recommended that he check out the American Film Institute. So that's sort of what started The Alphabet going." Based on the merits of this short film, Lynch was awarded an American Film Institute production. The idea for The Alphabet came from Lynch's wife, Peggy Lentz, a painter whose niece, according to Lynch in Chris Rodley's Lynch on Lynch book, "was having a bad dream one night and was saying the alphabet in her sleep in a tormented way. It has a simple narrative structure relating a symbolically rendered expression of a fear of learning. The Alphabet (1968) was made for the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, and combines animation and live action and goes for four minutes. It was merely an experiment on Lynch's part because he wanted to see his paintings move. The film cost $200 and was not intended to have any successors. Lynch showed the whole thing with the sound of a siren as accompaniment. And then I hung the sculptured screen and moved the projector back till just what I wanted was on the screen and the rest fell back far enough to disappear" (Chris Rodley, editor of Lynch on Lynch). The animated film was shown on "an Erector-set rig on top of the projector so that it would take the finished film through the projector, way up to the ceiling and then back down, so the film would keep going continuously in a loop. The school held an experimental painting and sculpture exhibit every year and Lynch entered his work in the Spring of 1966. Lynch made this film during his second year at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art. Lynch's animation depicted six people getting sick: their stomachs grew and their heads would catch fire. Originally untitled, "Six Men Getting Sick" is a one-minute color animated film that consists of six loops shown on a sculptured screen of three human-shaped figures (based on casts of Lynch's own head as done by Jack Fisk) that intentionally distorted the film. Main article: Six Men Getting Sick (Six Times)
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