"Surrealist Street" filled one side of the lobby with mannequins dressed by various surrealists. Surrealists and Existentialists frequently drew ideas from his work. The Dadaists and Surrealists in particular took to cinema. Many of the Absurdists had direct connections with the Dadaists and Surrealists. The Surrealists loved Fields' absurdism and anarchistic pranks. Influenced by the Surrealists, he was also an avant-garde experimental filmmaker. Lam met Pablo Picasso and the European surrealists while living in Paris in the 1930s. However the action painters took everything the surrealists had done a step further. During his Paris period he was also influenced by the French Surrealists. Breton and most of the other Surrealists were much less welcoming. His partially morbid motifs appealed to the surrealists. By 1930, Queneau separated himself significantly from Breton and the Surrealists. This mass popularization was to later have effect on the Surrealists. A number of the British surrealists, especially David Gascoyne, also supported communism. Earst was also active, along with fellow Surrealists, at the Atelier 17.