01:42Now, I've got to tell you about that.
01:44It was actually inspired and copied from a book called Illustrations in the Margins of Medieval Manuscripts.
01:54You won't find that in your local bookshop, I think.
01:57But what was interesting about it was it was all the artwork that the monks had literally drawn around the
02:05edges of their illuminated Bibles because clearly they were bored just writing again and again.
02:11And then, oh, Matthew, you know, chapter 7, verse 19, and he came amongst the whores of this world or
02:19whatever Jesus did.
02:20I mean, in fact, those are the bits they probably loved writing about.
02:24So they filled the margins with all these fantastical little characters and strange beasts and beautiful floral organic shapes.
02:34And that's what we used.
02:37I have to give credit to Katie Hepburn and Lucinda Cowell, who were my assistants during this, and they did
02:47most of this beautiful artwork.
02:49I was the guy that just cut out the terrible little characters and pushed them around.
02:54There's not much to say about how it's done.
02:57It's the way all my animations were done were just pieces of paper that we moved a little bit each
03:02frame.
03:04And then you would, boom, break off a little piece, boom.
03:08All these things were cut out in advance and prepared for the moment under the camera.
03:13It's not very interesting.
03:15It's just time-consuming.
03:17What's been nice, though, is going back to them and re-editing them and then sitting in the studio with
03:24André Schackmann and putting on a new soundtrack.
03:28Because they were never finished.
03:30Because my heart was broken by the rejection.
03:34God, I don't know what we're supposed to do.
03:36I've got nine minutes.
03:37I've only three minutes into this.
03:38What does John expect me to talk about?
03:40Get on with it.
03:41How much are you getting paid for this?
03:42You know, I don't get paid extra for doing that.
03:45The others haven't done a blind bit of work, and they're going to get, you know, the same I'm getting.
03:49I've gone to a lot of trouble with André.
03:51Many days of this, doing the sound effects, getting it right, adding.
03:55In fact, rescuing bits of Neil Innes' music, which was also rejected.
04:00In fact, I think we should just listen to a little bit of it now.
04:08Arthur, King Arthur, that legendary king.
04:14You know, look, there's a bit of negative here.
04:16You know, that's W.G. Grace, just for those of you who don't know this.
04:20There was a famous English cricketer, and his name was W.G. Grace, and that's who he made.
04:25Into God, and I thought it was a nice little pun.
04:28The grace of God.
04:30The national emblem is a leak.
04:32Arthur, King Arthur, that legendary king.
04:37This is what I call a ditty.
04:41Foot-tapping stuff.
04:43Yes!
04:44Yes!
04:46God!
04:50If we'd kept this in the film, the film would have been a great success.
04:56We wouldn't have to be selling Blu-rays.
04:59Arthur, King Arthur, that legendary king.
05:06I love this.
05:08This sure beats me sitting talking about animation, something I know nothing about anymore.
05:15Neil has rescued so many Python moments over the years.
05:19I think he deserves some kind of prize.
05:24Not money, though.
05:25You want to keep him pure.
05:29Oh, this is a really good bit.
05:31I always loved this.
05:31I love this staircase, because that's actually from an old engraving.
05:37But what we were discovering, especially Andre and I in the last few days while we've been
05:41putting the effects on this work, was that this is really radio.
05:46It's not cinema.
05:47It's not film.
05:48It's not even television.
05:49It's radio with pictures.
05:52I think it's the way people should look at this.
05:56What's this?
05:57This was a seasonal thing.
05:58I can't remember most of this, because I don't watch the film.
06:00I'm glad it makes a lot of money and keeps me in the style I've grown accustomed.
06:05But watch it again.
06:06Why?
06:07We've got lives to lead.
06:09In fact, I don't know.
06:10I bet most of you who've bought this have probably seen the film a dozen times.
06:13You've probably owned it in other forms.
06:15And maybe even you have some HD versions or normal versions.
06:19And all you're seeing now is a little bit more clarity, which in the case of my cartoons
06:23is fascinating, because I'd never understood what they were about until we'd been able to
06:26sit down and watch, in high definition, exactly the work we did.
06:32The Tale of Sir Robin.
06:33Isn't that lovely?
06:35Oh, yes.
06:36A flying creature.
06:37Again, what's interesting about these sequences, they're basically just about violence.
06:42But it's violence you don't get to watch, because most of it's either done off screen
06:47or inside a snail shell.
06:51I don't know.
06:52Why have I always liked snails?
06:54It's the combination of something so squishy and yucky, and something hard like that shell,
07:00which is a beautiful spiral.
07:02I mean, they're dumb, stupid pieces of meat.
07:06But somehow, they managed to make these incredible structures that they live in.
07:12And I thought it was about time we got rid of it.
07:15I mean, this snail with the beard goes off to become an escargot in France, and gets eaten
07:22eventually.
07:23Now, like an action sequence with a knight and his sword, who actually do nothing.
07:28They just turn left, and they turn right, and they turn left.
07:31It saves me a lot of work.
07:33And then once they're in this shell, thanks to all the sound effects that Andre's been doing,
07:38you sound like there's an incredible battle going on.
07:40In fact, there's bugger all going on.
07:42I'm just turning that shell a bit this way, and a bit that way.
07:47But remember, I'm not getting paid for this commentary, so the low quality of information
07:51that you're getting is a result of that.
07:54If any of you would like to offer me money directly, I could give you a proper commentary.
07:59In fact, let me leave you my address, and you can send me the money directly.
08:03He had saw him.
08:04Oh, I can't do that, because you'll all come around stalking me.
08:22Terry, John's brought you the cash you asked for.
08:27There's another scene.
08:29We've never worked out what this scene was about, or even what it was for in the movie.
08:33So we've added some bits from Mike's voiceover for one section that wasn't used, and we've
08:37added some bells, and I don't have a clue what I was thinking about when I was doing this
08:42one.
08:42And nobody's come to my rescue, but we've managed to invent a little scene out of nothing.
08:49Oh, we're back to this whole thing again.
08:51Jesus, how many times do we have to watch it?
08:53Oh, God.
08:54And this is the great thing about editing.
08:55You don't have to watch what we have to do.
08:57We spend hours, we spend days, we spend weeks throwing this crap out so you don't have to
09:03watch it.
09:04But we do, and we're tired of watching it.
09:06We're tired of talking about it.
09:08And I see my time is just about over, so I can get on with my life, because I am
09:14a busy
09:14person now.
09:15Terry, your wife rang and said, could you pick some eggs up on the way home and make sure
09:18you get back before it gets dark?
09:20I'm a famous film director, and I don't have to sit here talking to you people who foolishly
09:25paid money for the same old crap.
09:28Oh, one more thing.
09:29This could have been really good in the film.
09:30This is the beast.
09:31And no, no.
09:32I think it was Terry Jones that cut it out.
09:33Let's be honest.
09:33Let's name names here.
09:35We share the direct...
09:56We share the direct...
09:59...
10:29Ah !
11:01Oye! A Béa!
11:33Oh no! Oh no! You're not going to get me!
11:35I'm the little shield! I'm hiding behind my shield!
11:37And you cannot shoot me!
11:39Over the track!
11:39Oh no! Oh no!
12:05A Béa!
12:22Meanwhile, King Arthur and Serbedivir, not more than a Swallow's flight away, had discovered something.
12:29Our quest is at an end!
12:31I mean, there were more than two laden Swallow's flight away.
12:33You can't be brave!
12:34I can't hear!
12:35Somebody's talking very loudly!
12:36Come on in!
12:37If the birds were walking and dragging them...
13:03But they were walking into the next window and they're feeding off this !
13:05Ah!
13:06Oh
13:36Oh
