Monty Python’s Terry Gilliam explains how he did his cut-out animations

Have you ever wondered how Monty Python’s Terry Gilliam did his cut-out animations? In the following video, he shows exactly how he did his work, and the techniques he used were quite straight-forward. Gilliam’s results were nonetheless extraordinary thanks to the creative imagination he employed in his work:

Gilliam used thousands of pre-existing images. Watching this video made me wonder whether he was ever sued for copyright violation, given that he created an endless stream of derivative works ^[1] (I’m assuming that he would invoke fair use).

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