American director Victor Schonfield had to make 'The Animals' Film' on a low budget - it wasn't easy to get rich sponsors for a film detailing the comprehensive scale on which humans abuse other animals. I pride myself on being as cheap as I am cheerful and put together these fillers and fragments at Peter Ind's local demo studio. The hardest bit was that I had to watch stomach-churning film sequences in order to time them. To this day I've not been able to watch the results right through with my eyes open, although even with eyes tightly shut I can still see scenes I shall never exorcise, though some details are now thankfully hazy:

 - A man whose job it was to grab baby chicks of some kind of fairly fast conveyor belt and stick their faces in a de-beaking machine. A merry radio programme tinkling from his trannie so he could whistle while he worked. He cheerfully admitted that the speed and  volume of his work meant that sometimes the front of the chick's face would also get chopped off.

 - A cat in a glass box, a metal plate (with wires protruding) apparently screwed onto the top of the cat's skull in an interesting experiment on sleep deprivation. Researchers with detached curiosity measuring the descent into madness.

 - The US army tests of small nuclear devices on pigs in a confined space to find out how long it takes them to die. The pigs were filmed charging frantically around trying to get out before collapsing one by one in shivering blobs.

 - A similar filmed experiment by the Chinese military, using a dog tied to a tree.

 - But for a fellow ape, such as myself, the most harrowing scene: a young monkey, obviously deranged with anxiety confusion and loneliness, being tested for the effects of continuous large doses of LSD. (A compassionate touch was the provision of a single stick on the floor of the cage, to which the monkey could cling as a kind of mother substitute.) And so on.

Did the film make me a vegan pacifist? No. But it did make a little more circumspect with terms like 'bestial behavior'.

And I took the opportunity to experiment myself, on a Wasp. This Wasp was a wonderfully simple (to use) synthesiser, (its name derived from the yellow and black touch-sensitive keys) sadly no longer in circulation, despite its unequalled tone controls. Are there any left out there?

The original masters of this music cannot be found, but we've retrieved this edited down version released a while ago in Japan. It gives you the general feel of the whole original, which was not of course designed to be heard apart from the film: It's difficult, perhaps even immoral!, to make easy listening music for such nasty imagery.