13 Cantos of Hell (1955)

This interpretation of 13 cantos from the first part of Dante s The Divine Comedy is dedicated to Carl Koch and Lotte Reiniger, the husbandandwife team who pioneered the technique of silhouette animation. With the aid of a grant of 600, the sculptor Peter King made it virtually single handed, including the highly distinctive musique concrete soundtrack. Sadly, despite its considerable promise, 13 Cantos of Hell would be King s only film, as he died two years later at the age of just twentynine.