خلاصه داستان : انیمیشنی انتزاعی که به طور مستقیم بر روی یک فیلم رنگی کشیده شده است. برخی از این تصاویر تصویرگر رندگی واقعی موضوعاتی غیرمرتبط می باشد. در این انیمیشن به همراه موسیقی شاد، اشکال و الگوهایی رنگی و مختلف با یکدیگر تعامل دارند.

Trade Tattoo went even further than Rainbow Dance in its manipulation of the Gasparcolor process. The original black and white footage consisted of outtakes from GPO Film Unit documentaries such as Night Mail. Lye transformed this footage in what has been described as the most intricate job of film printing and color grading ever attempted. Animated words and patterns combine with the live-action footage to create images as complex and multi-layered as a Cubist painting. Music was provided by the Cuban Lecuona Band. With its dynamic rhythms, the film seeks (in Lye’s words) to convey “a romanticism about the work of the everyday in all walks of life."

خلاصه داستان : از یک بهشت سورئالی آبشاری از نفت جاری شده که اتومبیل ها و دستگاه های تشنه را دوباره زنده می کند.

This experiment was a “prestige advertisement” for Shell Motor Oil. As conventional animation became dominated by Walt Disney, many European filmmakers turned to puppets as an alternative, and Lye enlisted the help of avant-garde friends such as Humphrey Jennings and John Banting to make the amusing puppets. Exploring the still-complex color process, which involved the combination of three separate images, Lye creates such a vivid storm scene that reviewers hailed it as “proof that the color film has entered a new stage.” The music is Holst’s The Planets. - Harvard Film Archive