The Crimson Permanent Assurance is a short film that appears before the 1983 Monty Python movie The Meaning of Life. Short subject is an American film industry term that historically has referred to any film in the format of two reels, or approximately 20 minutes running time, or less. ... 1983 (MCMLXXXIII) is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Monty Python troupe in 1970. ... The Meaning of Life was a Monty Python comedy film made in 1983. ...

Originally conceived as an animated sequence in The Meaning of Life, Terry Gilliam convinced the rest of Monty Python to allow him to produce and direct it as a live-action piece. According to Gilliam, its rhythm, length, and style of cinematography made it a poor fit as a scene in The Meaning of Life, so it became "Our Short Feature Presentation" and preceded the film. Animation refers to the process in which each frame of a film or movie is produced individually, whether generated as a computer graphic, or by photographing a drawn image, or by repeatedly making small changes to a model (see claymation and stop motion), and then photographing the result. ... The Meaning of Life was a Monty Python comedy film made in 1983. ... Terry Gilliam at Cannes 2001 Terence Vance Gilliam (born November 22, 1940) is a film director and a member of the Monty Python comedy group. ...

In the film, a group of elderly office clerks who work for the Permanent Assurance Company, a staid British accountancy firm which has been taken over by The Very Big Corporation of America, rebel against their corporate masters when one of them is sacked. Having locked the surviving supervisors in a safe and thrown their boss out of a window on a makeshift plank, they commandeer their building and turn it into a pirate ship, sailing within London's business district and attacking The Very Big Corporation of America's skyscraper using wooden file cabinets which have become transformed into carronades. With ropes, they then swing into a board room and engage their bosses in hand-to-hand combat, vanquishing them. An office is a room or other area in which people work, but may also denote a position within an organisation with specific duties attached to it (see officer, office-holder, official); the latter is in fact an earlier usage, office as place originally referring to the location of one... Accountancy (British English) or accounting (American English) is the measurement, disclosure or provision of assurance about information that helps managers and other decision makers make resource allocation decisions. ... A rebellion is, in the most general sense, a refusal to accept authority. ... A corporation (usually known in the United Kingdom and Ireland as a company) is a legal entity (distinct from a natural person) that often has similar rights in law to those of a Civil law systems may refer to corporations as moral persons; they may also go by the name... Dorothea Langes Migrant Mother depicts destitute pea pickers in California during the Great Depression. ... Building is either the act of creating an object assembled from more than one element, or the object itself; see also construction. ... A Spanish galleon A galleon was a large, multi-decked sailing ship used primarily by the nations of Europe from the 16th to 18th centuries. ... London is the capital city of the United Kingdom and of England. ... Downtown Honolulu in United States, an example of an urban downtown district Central business district, (CBD used in Australia, New Zealand and sometimes elsewhere), or downtown (used mainly in North America) are terms referring to the commercial heart of a city. ... Taipei 101, considered the worlds tallest skyscraper. ... The carronade was a short smoothbore, cast iron cannon, similar to a mortar, developed for the Royal Navy by the Carron Company, an ironworks in Falkirk, Stirlingshire, Scotland. ...

After their hard-earned victory, the clerks continue to "sail the wide accountan-CY" (as they sing in their heroic sea shanty), until unceremoniously meeting their (now-animated) end by falling off the edge of the world. Sea shanties (singular shanty, also spelled chantey; derived from the French word chanter, to sing) were shipboard working songs. ... The flat Earth theory is the idea that Earth is flat, as opposed to the view that the Earth is very nearly spherical (see Spherical Earth). ...

They do briefly appear within The Meaning of Life itself, where their raid is halted by another skyscraper "collapsing" onto the sailing Permanent Assurance Company building. Also, in what may be considered to be a "deleted scene" to the original short, the bosses are discussing the meaning of life (and the fact that people are not wearing enough hats) right before the raid. The Meaning of Life was a Monty Python comedy film made in 1983. ...

According to the new Meaning of Life DVD, it was this short that immediately won the audience in the Cannes Film Festival. The Palais des Festivals in which the festival takes place. ...