John Lennon met the walrus

In 1969, a 14-year-old Bea­tle fanatic named Jerry Lev­i­tan snuck into John Lennon’s hotel room in Toronto and con­vinced him to do an inter­view. 38 years later, Lev­i­tan, direc­tor Josh Raskin and illus­tra­tor James Braith­waite have col­lab­o­rated to cre­ate an ani­mated short film using the orig­i­nal inter­view record­ing as the sound­track. A spell­bind­ing ves­sel for Lennon’s bound­less wit and time­less mes­sage, I Met the Wal­rus was nom­i­nated for the 2008 Acad­emy Award for Ani­mated Short.