"1972." "71." "70." "69." "68." "67." "66." "65." "64." "63." "62." "61." "60." "59." "58." "57." "56." "55." "54." "53." "52." "51." "50." "49." "48." "47." "46." "45." "44." "September 6th, 1944." "Me." "Mich." "Moi." "Mouris." "Francis Peter Mouris." "Michael Joseph Mouris." "Catherine Jean Mouris." "Philip James Mouris." "Susan Patricia Mouris." "Saint Francis." "Saint James." "Saint Camillus." "Saint Jerome." "Saint Agnes." "Jesus, Mary, and Joseph." "Pope Pius." "Pope John." "Pope Paul." "The Ascension." "The Assumption." "Ash Wednesday." "Easter." "Christmas." "Fine furniture." "Fully lined." "Finely detailed." "Fully packed." "Foam-filled." "Free form." "Fantastically functional." "Finely tuned." "Fully guaranteed." "Functional and yet smart." "Finest materials." "Fully washable." "Fleece-lined." "Four-channel." "Full-frequency." "AM/FM." "Fiberglass." "Formica." "Flagstone." "Flecked marble." "Fruit wood." "Foot bath." "Float belt." "Full of suds." "Foams you clean." "Four burners." "Fully automatic." "Frost is off the pumpkin." "Fried egg." "Frying eggs." "Flying egg." "Fresh hash and home fries." "Fruit cups." "Fruit cones." "Fridge." "Frozen TV dinners." "Mmm." "Fido." "Pal." "Rocky." "King." "Lucky." "Nietzsche." "Langford." "Fritz." "Fluffy." "Feathers." "Fleas. "Fetch, Fritzy!"" "First grade." "First day of school." "Fine cut." "Filter tip." "Fully mentholated." "Philip Morris." ""Find 'em, feel 'em, forget 'em." Food for thought." "French fries." "Fried onions." "Fish and chips." "Frosty frappes." "Frankfurters." "Fizzies." "Fanta." "Fritos." "Fig Newtons." "Filberts." "Fruit fondue." "Fresh milk." "Fennel." "Fennugreek." "Flambé." "Flank steak." "Fritters." "Flapjacks." "Flapdoodle." "Flan." "Fishbones." "French toast." "Flat." "Flat tire." "Flats fixed." "Four-wheel drive." "Four-door." "Four-on-the-floor." "4-4-2." "Fuel injection." "Flat out." "Foot stomper." "Fender skirts." "Fifth wheel." "Flywheel." "Flivver." "Flashers." "Fins." "Fender-benders." "Ferraris." "Fords." "Phaetons." "Filling station. "Fill 'er up!" Fly-by-night." "Flag down." "Fleshy." "Full-blown floozies." "Foolin' around." "Friction." "Firm flanks." "Funny bone." "Phallus." "Falsies." "Four door." "Forbidden fruit." "Finger do." "Fish and finger pie." "I love you." "Ich liebe dich." "Je t'aime." "First love." "First base." "Joan." "Barbara." "Sherry." "Lois." "Ruth." "Foozie." "Mary." "Julie." "Ellen." "Evelyn." "Anne-Marie." "Geraldine." "Louise." "Constance." "Jane." "Marianne." "Elaine." "Susan." "Gay." "Barbara." "Ann." "Betty." "Mary." "Jane." "Mary Ellen." "Ratsy." "Bobbi." "Joan." "Christine." "Pamela." "Kathy." "Mary." "Bobo." "Lansing." "Sandra." "Prudence." "Peggy." "Matilda." "Theodora." "Tammy." "Valerie." "Cara." "Carol." "Caroline." "Caroline the great." "Caroline Gertrude Ahlfors." "All force." "Poopsie." "Finger." "Fingers." "Fingernails." "Five-finger exercise." "Fingerboard." "Fiddle around." "Fit as a fiddle." "Fiddle in the middle." "Finger in the pie." "Finely fashioned." "Firmly fleshy." "Flesh toned." "Flesh colored." "Full of grace." "Forceful." "Flawless." "Flexible." "Faultless." "Fling about." "Fling off." "Fling down." "Fitted glove." "Forced entry." "Fly away." "Far and away." "Far out." "Fop." "Foppish." "Foppery." "Frills." "Frocks." "Furs." "Finery." "Frou-frous." "Flats." "Fleet-footed." "Fancy footwork." "Foxtrot." "Flamenco." "Frog prince." "Frosh." "Freshman." "Fresh-faced fathead." "Full of it." "Finking." "Froggy beginning." "Fresh melted frosh." "Flip." "Fraternal." "Fraternity." "Free association." "Free as a bird." "Free alongside ship." "Freethinking." "Free company." "Free country." "Free-for-all." "Free from pain." "Free from sin." "Free person." "Free road ahead." "Freestyle." "Free spender." "Free tickets." "Free love." "Freewheeling." "Free world." "Freeloading." "Free school." "Free space." "Free list." "Free market." "Free offer." "Free on board." "Free while this offer lasts." "First things first." "Fall semester." "Full professor." "Phi Beta Kappa." "Fluency." "Foreign language." "File cards." "Footnotes." "Frontispiece." "Formula." "Frank." "Form letter." "Funny papers." "Floating Opera." ""Form follows function." Foreman." "Foundation." "Four walls." "Frame house." "Foyer." "Front room." "Fenestration." "French doors." "Frescos." "Friezes." "Finials." "Figurines." "Fluted columns." "Furbishings." "Furnishings." "For rent." "For sale." "Fine art." "Fine arts thirteen." "Figure-ground." "Foreground." "Foreshortening." "Flemish school." "Flesh tone." "Folk art." "Funk art." "Formalism." "Forgery." "Fixative." "Freehand." "Freelance." "Francis Bacon." "Sam Francis." "Fed." "FTC." "FHA." "FBI." "For God and country." "Four Freedoms." "Fourth of July." "Fifth column." "Flamethrowers." "Fortifications." "Foxholes." "Four war years." "Flat feet." "Forward op." "Fed up." "Absolutely nothing." "Nothing." "Phoenix." "Fresh start." "Frank." "Frankenstein." "Flush left." "Flush right." "Front page." "Folios." "Flats." "First page." "First column." "First story." "First edition." "Foundry proof." "Four-color." "Frisket." "Fricative." "Phonetic." "Franklin Gothic." "Folio Gold." "Futura Light." "Firmin Didot." "Fausto Caps." "Fancy Celtic." "Fortune." "Fat shadow." "Fine focus." "Fine-grain." "Fuzzy focus." "Follow focus." "F-stop." "Field depth." "Field size." "Field guide." "Field chart." "Fade-out." "Fade-in." "Frame count." "Forty frames a foot." "Fast-forward." "Fantasia." "Fantasy movie." "Film freak." "François Truffaut." "Federico Fellini." "Jean-Luc Godard." "First." "First place." "First prize." "First fruits." "First night." "Fame and fortune." "Festivals." "Flags." "Fiestas." "Flogging." "Funding." "Annecy." "Zagreb." "Mamaia." "Cannes." "Venice." "New York." "L.A." "Hollywood." "Atlanta." "Chicago." "Academy Awards." "Oscars." "Fireworks." "Four Seasons." "First class all the way." "Fat cat." "Fantasy." "High finance." "First and foremost." "1944." "45." "46." "47." "48." "49." "50." "51." "52." "53." "54." "55." "56." "57." "58." "59." "60." "61." "62." "63." "64." "65." "66." "67." "68." "69." "70." "71." "72." "FRANK FILM." "Sound by Tony Schwartz." "Produced by Caroline Ahlfors Mouris." "Created by Frank Mouris." "The End." "subs by adimond @ kg" "This is FRANK FILM." "It's the story of my life." "From the beginning, up to the present, and into the future." "Perhaps, considering the speed of it, I should call it FAST FRANK FILM." "Basically, what it is, is that I've been saving images for the past 5 or 6 years." "All the things that appeal to me because I like them." "And sometimes I like them just because they look nice." "And other times I like them because they mean something special to me." "I'll start at the beginning:" "I was born in Key West, Florida, where my father was in a naval station there." "I was the first of 5 kids, and it was, I guess, a good time to be born." "The war was almost over (it was 1944), and I enjoyed being the first of 5 kids." "Because that means I got spoiled for 5 years." "I had a very strict religious upbringing which I feel helped me in my work later." "It gave me a kind of asceticism." "A Calvinism." "Almost a Protestant work ethic." "Even though it was a super-Catholic environment." "We lived in rather comfortable middle-class surroundings." "Things got better and better each year." "Both my parents had been brought up during the Depression." "Things were sort of scarce in their childhood." "And they both worked very hard while we were growing up." "Each year that I grew up, things got better and we had more things around the house." "I enjoyed having things around, and I liked looking at them, and I still do." "So I saved them a lot." "One of the things that I really liked then, and I still like now, is food." "It's one of my favorite things, because you can look at it and then you can eat it and enjoy it." "And you sort of bring it inside you." "And there just is never enough food to satisfy me." "I liked animals." "I always had a dog or a fish, or a favorite elephant at the zoo." "We had a parakeet." "And I have a dog now." "I think I'll probably always have some kind of animal around." "And..." "let's see..." "I guess I'm thinking about the time I started to go to school and they were smoking in the back of the bus and swearing, and telling jokes, and eating, and drinking, and eating some more." "I think one of my favorite times was lunchtime." "Just to see what was in my lunch box." "And desserts were about the best thing there was." "And food just constantly is there." "From an early age, I always wanted to go work at my father's gas station." "I used to cry and cry, and say:" ""Daddy, please let me come and work in your gas station."" "He finally let me, and I used to go and work there every Saturday when school would get out." "Then there got to be a point where I didn't want to go and I almost used to cry to stay home." "But I'd become enamored of automobiles." "Not mechanically (I couldn't do anything to fix them), but I just liked designing them." "And, then, I had the usual teenage sexual fantasies." "Which I won't go into too specifically, either visually or verbally." "I discovered other people at this point." "I had a number of crushes on girls in school, and for the first time, I started relating to people outside me." "I had always been very private up to that point." "Never shared anything with anyone outside my family." "But, just one girl after another I would fall madly in love, with some feature." "Or some group of features." "And follow her everywhere and in general be a pest." "But, uh, sometimes I succeeded in accomplishing what I wanted to." "And I thought that it was nice to be around girls and I thought that maybe someday I would do something, say in fashion, or makeup, or something that'd allow me to constantly work on them, and shape the image I had of them." "I liked working with my hands." "I thought that, whatever it was I eventually ended up doing, it would be with my hands." "Because I felt that, even though I saw things with my eyes, I was manually inclined." "I was very involved, after a while, in clothes." "How I looked to other people." "I was very concerned with the kinds of things one should have." "That you should put on." "And I was concerned with the social graces, like dancing." "I took all our dance classes very seriously." "I wore my most outrageous outfits to school dances." "And then it was time to go to college, and I went to college, and I started getting a rather swell impression of how great I was." "Uh... that faded." "And I was not too successful at sports." "Then I got into just sort of socializing with other people for the first time rather than just tracking down one person and going after them." "I just tried to be with people socially." "And that opened up another whole world for me." "Up until then, I'd been a loner." "Or someone who chased one girl." "But at college I sort of learned to talk to other people." "Although I was still pretty studious." "I spent most of my time studying." "I wasn't exactly sure what I was going to do." "I thought I would be a teacher." "I had no idea at that point I'd end up in graphic design as a graduate student." "I thought maybe I would write letters to people, as a profession." "That was something I enjoyed doing." "But while I was in college, I had to major in something." "So I studied architecture." "And I got carried away with it, for a couple of years." "I thought that was really what I was meant to do, and yet I slowly began to realize that you can't build a building all by yourself." "So I got wooed away from architecture, just before I graduated, and decided that art was the answer, and I would be a painter, or a sculptor." "Because then you can do the thing entirely yourself." "I would be the new Andy Warhol, or whatever." "There was a brief political phase, in college, that must have lasted 3 weeks." "Uh, then came a very confusing time." "I didn't know where all this was leading up to, and I didn't know where I should go to graduate school or what would happen." "Everything just sort of stopped." "And it just sort of ground to a halt." "And then, slowly, I just sort of rebuilt myself." "I decided to go to graduate school, and learn something vaguely mechanical that is, graphic design." "But it was also visual and aesthetic." "And through that I got interested in photography, and then suddenly through photography, I got interested in filmmaking specifically, animation." "And all of a sudden, there it was." "That was what I really wanted to do, was to work with animated images." "And make my world with them." "And so for my 3 years in graduate school, I just played around with different ways to animate different kinds of things." "And hopefully they would be things that hadn't even been animated before." "That was about halfway through my great saving-up period of all these images." "And that led to my fantasies of what would happen when all of that came together, and I was sending my films to international film festivals, and winning awards." "Being a fat cat, surrounded by people who would light my cigarettes and offer me a drink, and say:" ""Yes, that was a great film." "We can't wait for your next one."" "And..." "That's about as far into the future as I can fantasize, and it leaves me uh, feeling satisfied, because I think I can make it now." "And I just sort of think of all the things that have been in my life so far." "And they all just sort of come flowing over me." "And..." "They sort of present themselves to you in your recollections of what I've talked about." "And all I can say is: this is the beginning." "This is the first film you'll see, and there'll be plenty of others to follow." "Hopefully they'll all be as different as this one." "And they'll have something more specific to say about me than this one." "This one is just sort of preparing you for those." "subtitles by adimond @ kg"