Tom Waits For No One, by director John Lamb
is a pioneering, mostly forgotten music video that is being rediscovered with the help of a Kickstarter campaign. Made on state of the art analog technology in 1979, it features Tom Waits and his song “The One That Got Away” from the album Small Change. The film was a first job for several animation leaders like David Silverman and Harry Sabin. In 1980, John Lamb won an Academy Award for the co-invention of the Lyon Lamb Video Animation System, which was used in making of the film. Gunnar Strom, founder of Animation Volda and a professor at Volda University College in Norway, has written that Tom Waits For No One “is a pioneering, early American music video and is very likely the first rotoscoped music video ever made”. The iotaCenter is proud to announce that Tom Waits For No One will be joining the iotaCenter’s collection.