Hangman Ropes don't always cut when shot (2/2) | Simple History

A beautiful 1964 animated film based on the haunting Maurice Ogden poem, "The Hangman." An excerpt: And we cried: "Hangman, have you not done, Yesterday, with the alien one?" Then we fell silent, and stood amazed: "Oh, not for him was the gallows raised..." He laughed a laugh as he looked at us: “Did you think I’d gone to all this fuss To hang one man? That’s a thing I do To stretch the rope when the rope is new.” Available here: https://archive.org/details/the_hangman_1964 | Internet Archive