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Duration: 10:49 minutes Upload Time: 2007-09-02 09:43:56 User: TheMotionBrigades :::: Favorites :::: Top Videos of Day |
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Description: The first puppet kinescope in the world. It is based on the famous poetic comedy by William Shakespeare. Three worlds meet in this story: the noble world of three Athens couples, a common popular world of tradesmen amateur theatre and a fairy-tale happiness of magic creatures as elves and nymphs. The film is considered the most remarkable Trnka's work and a milestone in the history of animation. Awards: The highest prize of the technical committee - Cannes 1959, Honourable medal - Venice 1959, First prize for the best film - Bucharest 1960, Second prize - Montevideo 1960, First prize - "Golden Mercury" - for music - Valencia 1962 The celebrated Czech animator Jiri Trnka started work on a non‐verbal CinemaScope puppet version (Czechoslovakia, 1958). Shakespeare's dialogue was cut out completely, except for the occasional few words of plot explanation. In place of dialogue Trnka relied on visual richness and inventiveness to convey character. Puck, for example, shows his impish humour in the way he transforms himself into little animals from time to time; and Oberon's moods are implied by a succession of costume changes. A twist not found in Shakespeare is that in the final scene, when the artisans are performing their play before Theseus and the court, Puck uses magic to transform their acting from silly to sublime for a few brief moments. |
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