The Vanished World of Gloves

A quaint 1982 short film by Czech stop-motion master Jiri Barta.

An excavator digs up piles of gloves which look too clean to have been there long. He tosses them aside, until a tangled roll of film catches his eye. He takes the film home and watches a short history of film laid out before his eyes, all through gloves.

You can view both parts.

Parodied by the short film:

 * Keystone Kops, an old silent comedy group about bumbling policemen
 * Old-time melodrama
 * Federico Fellini's orgiastic dramas such as La Dolce Vita
 * Fascist leaders
 * Un Chien Andalou's famous scene
 * Post-apocalyptic sci-fi, specifically a shoutout to Close Encounters of the Third Kind
 * Godzilla