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[Otto]

This is my favourite Karel Zeman-movie:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journey_to_the_Beginning_of_Time

(since I was six years old)


There's lot of Zeman at YouTube

2007/10/19, Werner Presber <wernerpresber at yahoo.de>:
> "Karel Zemen (1910–1989) is a filmmaker I'm often telling people about but
> whose work isn't easy to see. So it's good to find that YouTube has gained
> some clips of his animations and examples of the partly-animated adventure
> films he made in the Fifties and Sixties. Zeman was yet another great Czech
> animator and the YouTube collection includes his most celebrated short,
> Inspiration, which gave life to glass figurines, an unyielding medium that
> he moves as expressively as if it was clay or plasticine.
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> The adventure films are predominantly based on Jules Verne and place live
> actors into animated settings, many of which are taken directly from (or
> intended to imitate) the engraved illustrations of the original novels. The
> animation enabled Zeman to fill his films with dirigibles, submarines and
> various steam contraptions which would be too expensive to create otherwise.
> Zeman's The Fabulous Baron Munchausen took the Gustave Doré illustrations
> for its visual style which is something this particular Doré fan
> appreciates, and the film is closer to the spirit of the Raspe novel than
> the Nazi adaptation of 1943 or Terry Gilliam's later version. The results
> are a lot more artificial than the seamless blend of animation and live
> action attempted by Ray Harryhausen in his own Jules Verne film, Mysterious
> Island, but the artificiality gives the films a distinctive charm.
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> • A Deadly Invention aka The Fabulous World of Jules Verne (1958)
>  • The Fabulous World of Jules Verne trailer (1958)
>  • Excerpts from Baron Munchausen (1961)
>  • The Special Effects of Karel Zeman pt. I | pt. II
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> Previously on { feuilleton }
>  • Zeppelin vs. Pterodactyls
>  • Jan Švankmajer: The Complete Short Films
>  • Taxandria, or Raoul Servais meets Paul Delvaux
>  • Barta's Golem
>  • The Hetzel editions of Jules V"
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