The early film career of David Lynch, before he became a media phenomenon with Blue Velvet and Twin Peaks, included a disturbingly original 1977 film called Eraserhead, which impressed Mel Brooks so much that he backed Lynch’s first Hollywood feature, The Elephant Man. But long before that, Lynch was an art student at Philadelphia’s Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and dabbling in short films. His very first effort was way back in 1966, an animated short subject called Six Men