Animation Artifacts &Commentary 06 Oct 2006 09:56 am
Tinder
- Mark Mayerson has culled together some numbers for grosses of animated features released since 2001. I’m not sure it reveals anything, but it is diverting information.
- The ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive posts the 1941 Chinese animated feature, Uproar In Heaven. This movie file comes courtesy of Milt Knight. It’s certainly an oddity. Using a rotoscope technique, they’ve redrawn and stayed close to every frame of the live action as the characters, whether pigs, humans or monkeys. It looks like some of those Fleischer song cartoons or even some of the silent Koko films.
Posted just prior to this, on the site, is Uproar In Heaven, the 1961 Chinese feature. This film, Directed by Wan Laiming and animated by the Shanghai Animation Studio, is the second of three versions of the story. It’s an adaptation of the Monkey King epic saga, and, as a matter of fact, I originally saw it with the title, The Monkey King.
- It’s interesting that many of the early non-US films took more from Fleischer than they
did from Disney.
The early Japanese animated films look like the Fleischer films of the early 30′s. I saw a screening of a lot of these films back in the 70′s, and it caught me by surprise. Even the silent films they did look more like Koko than Felix.
I have a copy of the first Belgian animated feature, The Tinderbox. It looks as though they took the worst elements from Gulliver’s Travels, and tried to mimic that style. Lots of broad stretch and squash. All of the characters look like Gabby.
Perhaps, they weren’t able to imitate Disney since it took more knowledge of the craft, and other than Disney, no one would pay for that development.
Since I had no stills from any of the features, the image is a Jiri Trnka illustration for the Hans Christian Andersen story of The Tinderbox.
(Click to enlarge.)
on 21 Feb 2010 at 9:55 pm 1.Phil Englander said …
In the early 60′s I remember seeing an animated version of The Tinder Box on TV. A boy who is coaxed by a man to crawl through an opening in a tree and enters a large palace. He is told bring back a tinder box which is guarded by two large dogs with enormous eyes. Does that sound like the Belgian version. It is a long time ago but I remember the animation as being stunning.
thanks, Phil
on 22 Feb 2010 at 9:25 am 2.Michael said …
I was wrong in this post. The feature is actual a Danish production. The film by Alan Johnsen was done in 1946 at Nordisk Tegnefilm. It was mentioned on a blog note by Hans Perk at A Film LA.
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