Un Chien Andalou reference to the popular children's novel "Platero y yo" by Juan Ramón Jiménez, which Buñuel and Dalí hated. Anthropologist Jean Rouch has reported that after filming was complete, Buñuel and Dalí had run out of money, forcing Buñuel to edit the film personally in his kitchen without the aid of a Moviola or any other technical equipment. The first screening of "Un Chien Andalou" took place at Studio des Ursulines, with an audience of "le tout-Paris". Notable attendees of the première included Pablo Picasso, Le Corbusier, Jean Cocteau, Christian Bérard and George Auric, in addition to the entirety of André
Préludes flasques (pour un chien) wrote a second set of pieces on the same theme, the "Veritables Preludes flasques (pour un chien)" (1912), which proved a breakthrough in Satie's career and creative development. The original "Préludes flasques" were presumed lost for decades and would not see print until 1967. Satie was never a pet-owner, but his fondness for dogs is well known. Stray mongrels he occasionally fed and sheltered were the only visitors he allowed inside his one-room Arcueil apartment during the 27 years he lived there. And among the random jottings in his composition notebooks can be found Blaise Pascal's famous quote, "The more