The video for the opening track from Tindersticks' "Can Our Love..." album of 2001. Not included on their "Bareback" DVD, as rather than their usual director Martin Wallace, this time they went to the Cosgrove Hall animation studios, and the result is as hauntingly beautiful as the song itself.
Featuring a couple of beautifully incongruous electronic drums, from when the eighties were only just coming to terms with the fact that they were the eighties. Viewers are, as always, urged to ensure that their cheap sunglasses still provide sufficient protection against UV radiation.
A 1925 short starring Mutt and Jeff, with colour and music added in 1973. With its comical scenes of attempted insurance fraud, elephant disfigurement, and a paranoid Negro washerwoman suspecting her own laundry of Ku Klux involvement, "Accidents Won't Happen" is as timely today as it was in 1925 and 1973 put together.