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"How did an interview recorded 40 years ago win a 2009 Emmy? We have a long gestation time, YouTube, and peace to thank, reports the Observer.\nIn 1969, then 14-year-old Jerry Levitan made his way to John Lennon's hotel room in Toronto, elbowed a long line of press out of the way and somehow convinced the famous Beatle to give him a 40-minute interview. The conversation made its way from reel-to-reel tape to an animated short almost 4 decades later and was posted to YouTube in 2007.\nCreated with director and animator Josh Raskin and illustrator James Braithwaite, the 5-minute animation was originally developed to be included on DVD with Mr. Levitan's book, I Met the Walrus: How One Day With John Lennon Changed My Life Forever. Since being posted to YouTube the short won Best Animation at the Manhattan Short Film Festival and was nominated for a 2008 Academy Award.\n\nThis year, I Met the Walrus went up against an \"All My Children\" video podcast, the New York Times Style Magazine screen tests and other notable nominations to win the \"New Approaches - Daytime\" award at the 36th Annual Creative Arts Emmy Awards.\nThe animated short features audio footage from the interview as its soundtrack, with Lennon imparting messages about peace being in the hands of the people even in a time of war. Its visual style is wonderfully playful, intelligently cartoonish and stylistically appropriate to the subject, being almost reminiscent of some of Lennon's own illustrative work from his published works. \nCheck out the video below and let us know what you think. Is the film and its attendant story about an unlikely meeting between a teenager and the then biggest star in the world worth its accolades? Do you think I Met the Walrus succeeds, as Jerry Levitan hoped, \"something that I thought John would love\"?\nI Met the Walrus\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nImage courtesy of Roy Kerwood"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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