Roda Lume is an "animated experimental poem", performed by E. M. de Melo e Castro in 1968. The original was destroyed by RTP for reasons difficult to determine (most likely due to tape recycling). The original storyboard plans survived and Melo e Castro managed, in 1986, to reconstruct the essence of what would have been the first manifestation of videopoetry, or teleart, in an international context.
A colored, drawn cartoon based on the story of the same name by A. Kravchenko. A cruel war is going on, the fat general is triumphant: victory is near! Suddenly, his troops run back, and he sees a gigantic, huge insect crawling out from behind the horizon, into the whole sky. It turns out that he dreamed of cockroaches overcoming him in real life. And he, a well-deserved infantry general, is not needed by anyone, since the branch of his troops is outdated. And he decided to find a new radical means to fight again in reality, and not in a dream. In a mysterious laboratory, the general took out a remote control device for cockroaches, and led huge hordes of foot insects into battle. And nearby lived the rest of the aviation general …
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