The Devils Ball (1933)
Added 2021-10-29 21:54:00 +0000 UTCI present the 1933 surrealist film by Ladislaw Starewicz (1892-1965) titled The Devil's Ball, transferred from my very own 16mm print using my Eiki 5 Blade Shutter Telecine. The Eiki has a special diffusion plate that eliminates the 'hot spot' of the projector, and the spooky sound is pulled right from the optical track. Enjoy! Muuoooaha-ha-ha!!! 😵
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That was wonderful. Thanks for sharing it, Fran!
SonOfSofaman
2021-10-31 17:05:41 +0000 UTCBrilliant animation for the time, thank you for helping to preserve if for the future.
Dr Andy Hill
2021-10-31 12:49:36 +0000 UTCThanks, friend. Absolutely wonderful and weird.
RustedDucksDesign
2021-10-31 03:14:37 +0000 UTCThat was fabulous.
Jeffrey R. Broido
2021-10-30 21:43:13 +0000 UTCMasterpiece of it's time!
2021-10-30 19:04:41 +0000 UTCMore like his inspiration I suspect!
Ymir the Frost Giant
2021-10-30 15:55:17 +0000 UTCAwesome. We often forget how the pioneers of film-making used all kinds of inventive methods to make the magic happen.
veritanuda
2021-10-30 09:01:04 +0000 UTCThat was amazingly good stop motion, especially on characters wearing loose clothing. Nothing, absolutely nothing moved in a weird or unnatural way.
2021-10-30 05:12:28 +0000 UTCThanks Fran! Loved it. 😃
Joacim Wennerberg
2021-10-30 04:36:50 +0000 UTCWas this Tim Burton's nightmare?
Matt Wietlispach
2021-10-30 00:48:36 +0000 UTCAmazing CGA -- I mean animation/stop action! That thing the tough-guy in the Andy-cap hat pulled out of the monkey looked like a CD ROM (in 1933)! The facial expressions of the woman listening to the guitar player were really well done, especially the tears that came out of her. Mind boggling to imagine how difficult it must have been to stop-action the band playing. That was a treat, Fran!
Peter Knazko
2021-10-29 22:57:14 +0000 UTCIncredible and not only for when it was made. It's not just stop motion either as there's definitely motion blur in many sequences.
David Peaker
2021-10-29 22:40:59 +0000 UTCIncredible, thanks Fran for you hard work! Such sophisticated animation for such an early period. I don't think I;ve ever seen balloons used like that before - or since. Here's one for you. Nothing to do with Halloween, but another vintage film, recently rendered into full colour. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y12G0EOuZcM I think this is the missing evolutionary link between the original Flash Gordon and Star Trek. Strong hints of both can be seen in it. If the style of animation seems familiar, first note the producer's name Roberta Leigh. Now go to one of the episodes of Torchy the Battery Boy in this Youtuber's other vids, such as https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1uvcaCPnqY You'll see the same producer's name, and the director is... Gerry Anderson. Long, long before Thunderbirds!
Ymir the Frost Giant
2021-10-29 22:28:15 +0000 UTCDisturbing and yet fascinating at the same time. This must have taken hundreds of hours of painstaking work in stop-motion, incredible!
Stefano Landi
2021-10-29 22:00:20 +0000 UTC
