Going to Manchester tomorrow,I looked for a title I could view before bed. After an animated film to watch for a best of 1932 poll on ICM,I was pleased to find a French cartoon, which gave me an idea.
View on the film:
The only one out of five films he made to have not become lost,this leaves a tantalising question over what other unique creations director Berthold Bartosch came up with. Spending two years doing the animation and backed by Arthur Honegger's making the first electronic score in cinema history, Bartosch gives the cut out animation style a pop-out book quality, with the woman, and coffins being marched down the road having a striking boldness. Later becoming banned by the Nazis and getting lost until a re-discovery in 1959, Bartosch's adaptation of Frans Masereel's book twists the lyrically surreal with a underlying biting allegory, from "the thinker" coming up with a doll-sized naked woman and sending her in an envelope to the outside world,where she is met by those who want to shred a new idea.
View on the film:
The only one out of five films he made to have not become lost,this leaves a tantalising question over what other unique creations director Berthold Bartosch came up with. Spending two years doing the animation and backed by Arthur Honegger's making the first electronic score in cinema history, Bartosch gives the cut out animation style a pop-out book quality, with the woman, and coffins being marched down the road having a striking boldness. Later becoming banned by the Nazis and getting lost until a re-discovery in 1959, Bartosch's adaptation of Frans Masereel's book twists the lyrically surreal with a underlying biting allegory, from "the thinker" coming up with a doll-sized naked woman and sending her in an envelope to the outside world,where she is met by those who want to shred a new idea.