The Man Who Shot the Man Who Shot Lincoln (2010) watch online HD

Just watched on the Vimeo site as linked from the Cartoon Brew one this fascinating animated short by Drew Christie about Boston Corbett, the title real-life person who assassinated John Wilkes Booth. Drawn on the pages of various paperback books, we see first the actual assassination, then go back seven years to Corbett's first encounter with temptation with a beautiful woman and his attempts to resist it by castration (we actually see him use the scissors to cut off his balls). We then see his preaching and his fighting for the Union before that fateful day when he actually sees Booth through a barn door and shoots him when he seems to aim at him. And then we see his thoughts as he goes crazy for the rest of his days. I'll stop there and just say this was quite compellingly depicted by vivid charcoal, pastel, and crayon drawings with some color like red for blood on various printed pages. And the music by Spencer Thun and sound and voices by Ian Picco add to the creative flourish. This is not the first time the drawings-on-book-pages was done as Amid Amidi on Cartoon Brew linked to another such short on Vimeo called Orson Whales by Alex Itin which has Orson Welles' recording of reading the book "Moby Dick" while images of whales and the sea are depicted. Also, Drew Christie himself submitted a comment that his short was an unofficial sequel to another one he made about a Civil War event with the title The Sinking of the Hunley. He provided a link to that one on YouTube there. One more thing, Amid also provided a link to the American Scholar for an actual article of Boston Corbett's life that was quite a fascinating read. Reading that before seeing the short really helped me understand what was going on in it. So on that note, I highly recommend The Man Who Shot the Man Who Shot Lincoln.