THE RUNNING, JUMPING, STANDING STILL FILM (1959)

My favorite moment in the film comes, courtesy of Spike Milligan, at about 6 minutes and 30 seconds in.


From Wikipedia (with some additions from me...

The Running Jumping & Standing Still Film is a short (eleven minute) film directed by Richard Lester and Peter Sellers, and starring Spike Milligan. The film was released in 1960. It was a strong influence on Lester's later film, A Hard Day's Night, starring The Beatles. Lester also directed the Beatles in Help! and John Lennon in How I Won the War.

Some of the ideas here were better articulated in Lester's 1969 film The Bed-Sitting Room.

The Running, Jumping, Standing Still Film was shot over two Sundays in 1959, at a cost of under fifty pounds - including five pounds for the rental of a field.

It was nominated for an Academy Award, but did not win. It is available on some copies of the DVD version of A Hard Day's Night, and it featured in The Unknown Peter Sellers.