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
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