While not much is known of the Kinex Studios, historians believe their films were produced in approximately 1928 to 1930 as silent films for non-theatrical 8mm and 16mm distribution by Kodak's Cinegraph branch.
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Kinex's series such as Chip, Snap the Gingerbread Man and Doodlebugville all feature characters crafted out of wood and other materials in a much more "cartoon"-like style, whereas realistic bugs and human-like dolls were predominant characters in earlier stop-motion films. Kinex Studio's CHIP IN THE LAND OF WHIZ (1929) is one of various toyland-like adventures.
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Jumping ahead to the eve of the Great Depression, we find ourselves in the fantastic world of Chip the Wooden Man. O'Brien's work is revisited later in this program. These two cavemen are rivals, and Steve throws The Duke into a pot of boiling water! Theophilus Ivoryhead, the "unassuming hero" as an intertitle introduces him, eventually wins the love of Araminta - but I'd better not spoil the rest of the plot for potential viewers! The film features an almost stunningly similar precursor to KING KONG, "Wild Willie," who serves as the antagonist and is also the 'Missing Link' of the film's title. Miss Araminta Rockface, the protagonist, is called on by local cavemen The Duke and Stonejaw Steve. Willis O'Brien animates superb, lifelike figures in this film which is part of a prehistoric-themed series he produced in the mid-to-late 1910s. Our third feature is THE DINOSAUR AND THE MISSING LINK (1917), a Conquest Pictures production distributed by Thomas Edison. And to think I throw them away after I swat them. Starewicz uses actual preserved insects as subjects in this film. Husband and wife betray each other and yet they remain together at the end of the film with a bottle of wine to bind them! This dramatic telling of a lecherous couple, the Beetles, has a humorous edge in that a grasshopper cameraman provides the climax by showing his secretly-captured, incriminating film at a cinema where the Beetles are in attendance. In that same year, famed animator Ladislaw Starewicz produced our second film, THE REVENGE OF THE KINEMATOGRAPH CAMERAMAN (1912). THE AUTOMATIC MOVING COMPANY is a short yet charming film depicting actual furniture unloading from a moving truck and arranging itself in a second-floor apartment without the aid of a human moving crew. Bossetti worked at the Gaumont Studios during an earlier period in which Cohl produced a film with the same theme, Le Mobilier fidele (1910) now only viewable at the Cinematheque Gaumont-Actualites.Īnimation historian and author Donald Crafton makes the important distinction between the two films in his book Emile Cohl, Caricature, and Film (Princeton Press, 1992) and suggests that Bossetti must have had the pleasure of watching Cohl at work during the Gaumont period and experimented with furniture in an earlier 1911 film as well. Wrongly attributed to Emile Cohl since the 1970s, this film was in fact produced by Bossetti for the Pathe company two months after Cohl left the studio. It can be argued that these works, in turn, are true film feats compared to the commonplace animation of today.įirst in the show is THE AUTOMATIC MOVING COMPANY (1912), a film by Romeo Bossetti. It demonstrates the level of talent possessed by several filmmakers of the 1910s, 1920s, and 1930s who were able to produce visually stunning films using three-dimensional objects without the aid of computers. This DVD collection is an exploration of early stop-motion animated films, and should serve as a great introduction to a most interesting aspect of animation history.
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Thalaivasal Vijay and Fathima Babu do the characters of Moosahajyar and Fathima.I'm proud to announce Cartoons On Film's STOP MOTION MATINEE, a new release produced in conjunction with Inkwell Images, Inc. ‘Matinee’, the debut directorial venture of the still photographer Aneesh Upasana, stars Maqbool Salman as Najeeb, Mythili as Savitri, and new face Mythili Krishna as Sainaba. The eventful life that follows plots the rest of the movie. She too reaches Chennai in search of a job.Īlthough both of them belong to diverse situations and have distinct goals the two are forced to face certain truths which results in serious consequences in their life. There he meets Savitri who belongs to a poor family in Palaghat. At a particular situation, Najeeb has to flee his village and reached Chennai in search of a job. Despite being educated, Najeeb is jobless and has no means of earnings for himself.
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He is the son of Moosahajyar, who is a planter, and Fathima. Najeeb belongs to an orthodox Muslim family in the district of Malappuram.
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He is the son of Moosahajyar, who is a plante.