"There’s a wonderful gag where Idle’s pretentious narrator is speaking into a camera that keeps moving away from him so that he’s forced to run at top speed just to keep up with it."
This remains one of my favorite gags ever. As you so eloquently say, it's a brilliant little jab at the visual language of documentaries. And a gag so good, it was stolen by SCTV in a sketch featuring Eugene Levy. (I'm fine with it...I love The Rutles, and I love SCTV.)
"There’s a wonderful gag where Idle’s pretentious narrator is speaking into a camera that keeps moving away from him so that he’s forced to run at top speed just to keep up with it."
This remains one of my favorite gags ever. As you so eloquently say, it's a brilliant little jab at the visual language of documentaries. And a gag so good, it was stolen by SCTV in a sketch featuring Eugene Levy. (I'm fine with it...I love The Rutles, and I love SCTV.)