Getting Started

Deux jours avant son récital, Eugène, pianiste de concert, tente désespérément de se mettre au travail. Tout autour de lui est source de distraction. Comment s'en sortira-t-il? Un film d'animation qui illustre de façon amusante les difficultés que l'on rencontre parfois face à un travail demandant concentration, inspiration et créativité.

It was one of the most sensational get-rich-quick schemes heard of in a long time, but it eventually burst over the head of its originator, John Law. This "rags to riches to rags" story, in which the plan was to open a bank and exchange banknotes (paper!) for gold at wildly inflated share prices, ends when John Law, having been cleaned out as a result of a rush to cash in the notes, is left broke and broken-hearted.

This hilarious animated short is based on the century-old folk song of the same name. Old Mr. Johnson makes increasingly manic attempts to rid himself of a little yellow cat that just won't stay away...