"... he found making a replica is nearly as hard as forging a real sword!"

Depending on where you start, and the tools you use, the blade could take between three hours and three weeks to forge for real. Creating the brass parts and finishing could never have been done in a day.

The description sounds more like Crossroads meets Mad Max

'Bout time.

Neat puzzle! Had to look carefully.

Welcome, WTM. Nice piece.

So much better than most shorts. Really, really good.

I think the problem was drinking milk and eating grapefruit at the same meal. Skip both of those and I would finish The Breakfast, but also be ready for a nap.

Those photographers were wonderful with posing and generating obvious good cheer.

The world of modern stock photos is weird. Some of the people in this article stage lots of photos. Others, Like Ariane (did you have a post about her?) just go about their day and have someone take a million photos of her.

https://blog.placeit.net/10-popular-stock-photo-personalities/

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jul/25/microsoft-paint-saved-windows-store

MS Paint has been resurrected!

This belongs in a museum. Awesome!

Ended way too soon!

Most youngsters will not remember the woman who announced recorded, land line messages (or calling for Time and Date). Foray also was that voice.

118 animated shorts in 18 years: one every other month. Amazing!