Antonin Artaud "La Nouvelle Revue Française"; they were rejected, but the editor, Jacques Rivière, wrote back seeking to understand him, and a relationship via letters developed. Their compilation into an epistolary work, "Correspondance avec Jacques Rivière", was Artaud's first major publication. Artaud cultivated a great interest in cinema as well, writing the scenario for the first surrealist film, "The Seashell and the Clergyman" (1928), directed by Germaine Dulac. This film influenced Salvador Dalí and Luis Buñuel, two key Spanish surrealists, when they made "Un Chien Andalou" (1929). Artaud's performance as Jean-Paul Marat in Abel Gance's "Napoleon" (1927) used exaggerated movements to convey
Pett and Pott and the telephone - are praised. Viewed in retrospect, the film has been described as 'radical fun', rather like Un Chien Andalou reworked by Gilbert and Sullivan. Pett and Pott Pett and Pott (subtitled A Fairy Story of the Suburbs) is a 1934 short film produced by John Grier under the auspices of the GPO Film Unit and directed by Alberto Cavalcanti. Made to promote wider use of the telephone, "Pett and Pott" is a satirical comedy. based around two contrasting suburban families who live next door to each other. While virtuous Mrs Pett looks after the home and tends