动画伊始，狗狗的吠叫便从未停歇。一个被卷成筒状的白纸上画着狗狗。狗狗追逐自己的尾巴，永不知道疲倦。终于它叼住尾巴了，随后很宝贝地抱着尾巴，相亲相爱。未过多久，尾巴仿佛具有了生命一般，会叫会笑，狗狗于是和它的尾巴成为好朋友。它们结伴上街，分享同一根骨头，一起下棋、掰手腕、撒尿、乘坐汽车、扔木棍、挠虱子、唱歌、自拍，生活极其舒适惬意。夜幕降临，它们躺在狗窝顶上，盯着夜空凭空画下充满幻想的作品。次日一早，附近传来了猫咪的叫声。狗狗和它的尾巴同时起来，狂吠着朝猫咪奔去。就在此时，意外突然发生了……

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Elke Baurs' documentary MPS - Jazzin' the Black Forest is an affectionate portrait of the MPS label and its founder Hans Georg Brunner-Schwer who died tragically in a car crash two years ago. The Label MPS (Musik Produktion Schwarzwald) is known as the German "Blue Note." From the label's beginnings in the early 1960s up to its sale to Polygram in 1983, more than 600 records were put on the market by one of Europe's pioneering jazz labels. Brunner-Schwer's exceptional recording technique and the sheer musical quality of MPS records made the vinyl discs sought-after rarities. In addition to the most important German artists such as Albert Mangelsdorff, Wolfgang Dauner, The Kühn Brothers, Volker Kriegel and others, many of the international greats made their way to the Black Forest, too: Oscar Peterson, George Duke, Jean Luc Ponty, Duke Ellington, Monty Alexander, Baden Powell, Dizzy Gillespie -- to name only a few. MPS received an excellent reputation for its high-quality progressive recordings, and their "jazz meets the world" series is considered as fundamental to world music. This film was mainly produced by legendary "pope of jazz" Joachim-Ernst Behrendt who played a decisive part in moulding the image of MPS with his avant-garde-orientation and occasional flights into almost all areas of jazz. In the last 15 years, DJs like Oliver Korthals (Mojo Club) and Rainer Trüby made their younger audience aware of the MPS originals -- a generation not even born when the records first came out. Interviews with musicians and former MPS staff plus rare live and archive documents give an inside account of an era and the "Most Perfect Sound." - forcedexposure.com ast: Musicians recording for MPS: Monty Alexander Wolfgang Dauner George Duke Rolf Kühn Joachim Kühn Lee Konitz Charlie Mariano Albert Mangelsdorff Jean Luc Ponty Chistoph Spendel Eberhard Weber Others: Hans Georg Brunner- Schwer Matthias Brunner- Schwer Marlis Brunner- Schwer Kathrin Brunner- Schwer Lisa Boulton Rolf Donner Willy Fruth Gigi Campi German Hasenfratz Mike Hennessy Oliver Korthhals Rainer Trüby Toni Schifer a.m.o.

A seminal work as melodious and haunting as the era it chronicles, now reissued with a new introduction. First published in 1968, Weimar Culture is one of the masterworks of Peter Gay's distinguished career. A study of German culture between the two wars, the book brilliantly traces the rise of the artistic, literary, and musical culture that bloomed ever so briefly in the 1920s amid the chaos of Germany's tenuous post-World War I democracy, and crashed violently in the wake of Hitler's rise to power. Despite the ephemeral nature of the Weimar democracy, the influence of its culture was profound and far-reaching, ushering in a modern sensibility in the arts that dominated Western culture for most of the twentieth century. Vivid and eminently readable, Weimar Culture is the finest introduction for the casual reader and historian alike. "[A]n enormously rich, intriguing, and exciting essay.... A major contribution to the study..."— The New York Times 16 black and white illustrations