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...improve on the Roald Dahl children's book, and Monkeybone, a pretty frantic mix of live-action and animation. All these films owe less to the chipper confections of Disney, Pixar and DreamWorks than to Euro-cartoonery like The Triplets of Belleville and the work of Czech animator Jiri Trnka...
...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-world of Victorian dolls. Included are some landmarks in the medium: Wills O'Brien's Creation...
...Hand. Czechoslovakia's Jiří Trnka is the Chagall of cinema. In his 18 puppet films (A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Emperor's Nightingale), he has bodied forth in speaking forms and singing colors a rich world of the spirit that for almost two decades has floated like a magical island in the grey sea of groupthink called Communism. In this tiny (19 minutes) but weighty puppet picture, Trnka (pronounced Trnka) has come right out with a wry but obviously heartfelt statement of the rights and wrongs of man in a totalitarian society...
...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...
...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...