Let's get into the IMDb's Top 250 !
...What, it's impossible?
How sad.
I hate the fact that people have to search like crazy to find this gem of animation, they should discover it by looking at things like the IMDb's Top 250 or something similar.
Heck, forget about the TOP 250 - let's shoot for IMDB's "Animation Top 10" list (which you will see if you click on the "Animation" link on this film's page.
A film needs to have at least 200 votes to be included there. As we're at 52 right now, this is a bit of a stretch... but probably a more attainable goal than getting 1200 "regular voters" to vote on it, which is what's required to get into the Top 250 (and who knows what a "regular voter" is. In my experience, people who vote on rarely-seen films like this are not "regular voters" because they spend more time LOOKING for films than actually seeing them).
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Eh I was joking about getting in the top 250, it's totally impossible. I'm just complaining that movies like this are way too unknown and I wonder how people could find them (While searching about insects on google, I discovered Starewicz then this movie)...
shareI discovered Starewicz while researching animation before and after the Mickey revolution in a book called "Before Mickey" written by Donald Crafton. His work is incredible. Have you purchased his DVD THE CAMERAMAN'S REVENGE AND OTHER TALES? It's good, but severely lacking in special features. He's the king of his field.
I've been completely obsessed with Starewicz since I was a teenager, and this is the one film that has eluded me. It drives me crazy that I've not been able to find it anywhere. Where can I find it? Where did you guys see it?
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I managed to see Tale of the Fox too (and a great deal of his other works). What Winsor McQay is for character animation, thus influencing Disney, Starewitch is for stop-motion animation. His works are the best. I discovered his name on Wiki while searching for stop-motion animation.
Together with the Czech school (Trnka, Tyrlova, Pojar, Seko, Barta, Svankmajer), the Brothers Quay and some Russian artists they produced some of the best stop-motion works from Eastern Europe.
Not that the works of Harryhausen or Caprino are bad
How true. I absolutely adore Eastern Europe stop-motion. It's sad how it is difficult to find these movies.
shareLook out also for K.Kawamoto's work which are amazing
he is a disciple of Jiri Trnka and combines lyricism with Japanese tradition of Noh and bunraku theatre.
On par with the Czechs and Starewitch
Check out "The Cat Who Walked by Herself" also (it's up on Google Video).
I finally got a chance to see this film, and was actually a bit disappointed. It's good, but the storyline is rather simplistic and the animation often felt a bit rushed. Overall, I much preferred his shorter film "Fétiche en voyage de noce" (1936) which was on the same DVD.
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Just got to see TALE OF THE FOX at a museum exhibition about the history of animation last November---it was nice sitting there watching it with 3 other adults. I had already seen part of it online,but got to watch to the other half. Took me 4 hours to see everything in the exhibition, since they had practically everything from the very first known attempts at animation up to the latest experimental digital game. Will definitely be looking for that one---already got the got THE CAMERAMAN'S REVENGE AND OTHER TALES----like them all,but the one that really got me hooked was THE MASCOT, which is must-see viewing.
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