At length, by dint of much wriggling, and loud and incessant expostulations upon the unbecomingness of his hugging a fellow male in that matrimonial sort of style, I succeeded in extracting a grunt; and presently, he drew back his arm ….

Unrhyming — translating from verse to prose — while common in late medieval France, was relatively rare in England: coincidentally, the Gilte Legende unrhymes its verse sources

Scripts that include brief reference to a picture turn stock footage from 'wallpaper' to illustration.

In the sequence of The Fellowship of the Rings where Frodo and friends paddle through the feet of the Argonaths the camera vertiginously swivels up and beyond the two massive statues disturbing some nesting birds. The statues, of course, do not exist as they are just 'bigatures', neither do the birds, which are digitally created: […]