. ♪) (♪ theme music ) matt elmore: (♪) welcome to imagemakers a weekly showcase featuring the best short around the world. stay tuned and enjoy the filmmakers of tomorrow today on imagemakers. imagemakers is made possible in part by a grant from: celebrating the vitality and power of the moving image. and by the: (♪ upbeat music ) (♪) (♪) (♪ piano solo ) (♪)

♪ tyin' up my white tie ♪ ♪ brushing off my tails ♪) ♪ tyin' up my white tie ♪ (♪ theme music ) matt elmore imagemakers a weekly showcase featuring the best short films from around the world. stay tuned and enjoy the filmmakers of tomorrow today on imagemakers. imagemakers is made possible in part by a grant from: celebrating the vitality and power of the moving image. and by the: (♪ slow instrumental ) (train sounds) (♪) (train noise stops) (♪) (bells) (♪) (♪ music continues ) (♪) (footsteps) (♪) male narrator: so you want to hear a story? well, i used to know a whole lot of pretty interesting ones. some of them so funny you'd laugh yourself unconscious. other's so terrible you'd never want to repeat them. but now i can't remember any of those. so maybe i'll just tell you about the time i found that lost thing. this all happened many summers ago, (birds crowing) down at the beach. i was, as usual, working tirelessly on my bottletop collection. at least until i saw the thing. (bells ringing) (♪ music starts ) (footsteps) (♪) (♪) (♪) it sure wasn't doing much. it just sat there, with a reall