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...Puppet Animation. Pixillation, or so the releases promise. At Center Screen in the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Friday, Saturday and Sunday...
...Puppet Animation. A collection of hilarious, historic, satirical and sinister animated works, most of which are undiscovered masterpieces of the genre of pixillation, or single-framing. Beginning with pioneering ventures like Ladislas Starevitch's 1912 Revenge of the Kinemagraphic Cameraman (a silent starring two beetles, a dragonfly and a grasshopper) this fifth program in Center Screen's Animation Series covers chronologically such spoofs as Jiri Trnka's Song of the Prairie, 1949 (a spaghetti Western complete with an operatic cowboy) and concludes with the surrealistic Jabberwocky of Jan Svank-majer, a sinister turn of the screw on a Carrollian child...
...allowing Palestinian terrorist Abu Daoud to be freed [Jan. 24], France shows again that it is merely a puppet in the hands of Arab dictators. For the right price of oil, justice can be tossed aside. France should be in mourning -not for the dead Israelis but for the death of justice, liberty and respect...
...eerie-looking doll is Susan Blakely in Secrets, ABC's chilling movie scheduled to air Feb. 20. Model-turned-Actress Blakely, 27, plays Andrea, a psychologically disturbed young wife who turns into a nymphomaniac. She is also possessed by the notion that her dead mother is a wicked puppet queen. Her mother's crime? Teaching Andrea that everything she does must be aimed at attracting men. "What the mother teaches the child is almost like the normal belief system many women are taught," observes Blakely. "The plot is something women will connect...
...FESTIVAL'S highlight is the complete version of Ladislas Starevitch's The Mascot, a fairy tale of innocence astray in a wicked world. The film, made in 1934, is a classic of puppet and object animation. A dew-eyed puppy puppet--who bears a vague resemblance to Alfred Hitchcock--is brought to life by the tears of a dollmaker who is too poor to buy her sick daughter the oranges she dreams of. The dollmaker sends the puppy to be sold in a toy store. He manages to escape his new owner there as well as his fate...