Richard Cory

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Richard Cory (1957)
Director: Robert Balser

UCLA Animation Workshop Student Film. Animation adapted from an 1897 narrative poem by Edwin Arlington Robinson, contrasting the bright illustrations of Victorian life with the grim realism of the poem's arc.

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Complete Record: Richard Cory (1957) Director: Robert Balser UCLA Animation Workshop Student Film. Animation adapted from an 1897 narrative poem by Edwin Arlington Robinson, contrasting the bright illustrations of Victorian life with the grim realism of the poem's arc. Visit our blog to learn more about the history of UCLA student animation: https://cinema.ucla.edu/blog/animation-workshop-collective-ucla-student-filmmakers

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Whenever Richard Corey went downtown. We people on the pavement looked at him. He was a gentleman from soul to crown, cleanfavored and imperially slim. And he was always quietly arrayed and he was always human when he talked. But still he fluttered pulses when he said good morning. And he glittered when he walked. And he was rich. Yes, richer than a king. and admirably schooled in every grace. In fine, we thought that he was everything to make us wish that we were in his place. So on we worked and waited for the light and went without the meat and cursed the bread. and Richard Corey. One calm summer night went home and put a bullet through his head.

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