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...Midsummer Night's Dream. The best puppet picture ever made: a feature-length version of Shakespeare's play put together by Czechoslovakia's Jiri Trnka, the Walt Disney of the Communist bloc...
...Midsummer Night's Dream. The best puppet picture ever made: a feature-length version of Shakespeare's play put together by Czechoslovakia's Jiri Trnka, the Walt Disney of the Communist bloc...
...Midsummer Night's Dream. Shakespeare with puppets: an intricate trick executed with taste and charm by Jiri Trnka, a Czech with an imagination quite as wild as Will...
...used to the idea it can be fun. Indeed, when the trick is brought off as brilliantly as it is here, even the Shakespurists may indulge in a delighted suspension of disbelief. Dream was produced in Czechoslovakia by a 49-year-old gimcrack genius named Jiri Trnka (pronounced Trnka). the Walt Disney of the Communist bloc; it is incomparably the best puppet picture ever made, a shimmering translation of poetic fancy into technological fantasy, a planned delirium of light and color for the educated eye, and for literary innocents of whatever age the perfect introduction to Shakespeare...
...final election in the Deep South. Last week he got combined backing of the U.S., Great Britain and Canada. Besides this powerful support, Boland can count on the consistent anticolonial stand of his native Ireland to help win Latin American and Afro-Asian nations. His rival, Czechoslovakia's Jiri Nosek, can count for sure only on the nine votes of the Communist bloc...