Un Chien Andalou Noailles, who commissioned Dalí and Buñuel to create a sequel, of around the same length, with sound, to be called "La Bête Andalouse", in order to affirm its connection with "Un Chien". Dalí stated that the theme of the new film was to parallel that of the first: "to present the straight and pure 'conduct' of someone who continues to pursue love despite wretched humanitarian ideals, patriotism and the other poor mechanisms of reality." This new film ultimately was released in 1930 under the title "L'Age d'Or" but was quickly withdrawn by the Noailles family after being banned by the
Jean Painlevé actually consider himself a surrealist. He did, however, share the surrealists' interest in psycho-sexual stimulation and the ultimate weirdness of procreation. Painlevé first came to the cinema as an actor, alongside Michel Simon, and also as assistant director in the René Sti unfinished film "L'inconnue des six jours" "(The Unknown Woman of Six Days)", 1926. (Later, he would appear as "chief ant handler" in Luis Buñuel's "Un Chien Andalou", 1928). Soon, he was shooting his own films, starting with "L'œuf d'épinoche : de la fécondation à l'éclosion", 1927. Painlevé sometimes scored the music and background sounds for his films, such