Written, directed, edited and animated by David Lynch Lynch's second film uses a combination of animated and live-action sequences to describe the fear associated with learning. A-Z added in sequence to various backgrounds. Letters enter the head of a distorted female figure, which makes the girl on the bed react in terror. We hear a baby crying in the background, and then a siren.
Blood pours out of the female figure, then a close-up of a distorted mouth.
We hear the sound of rushing wind as the girl on the bed reaches for floating letters that are just out of reach. Finally, she jerks around on the bed and coughs up blood. Lynch shows us many images and traits that he would carry with him onto his future works. One, his fascination with letters and words. In Twin Peaks, letters are found under the fingernails of BOB's victims.