In 1969, a 14-year-old named Jerry Levitan talked his way into John Lennon’s Toronto hotel room, armed with a reel-to-reel tape recorder. Impressed by the kid’s chutzpah, Lennon obliged him with a five-minute chat that covered war, peace, and the newly arrived Bee Gees.

Levitan teamed up with filmmaker Josh Raskin in 2007 to make “I Met the Walrus,” an animated film that turns Lennon’s thoughts into concrete, if trippy, images. It’s cool.