Comments on: DOLLS Become ACTORS (Dec, 1939) http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2009/04/20/dolls-become-actors/ Yesterday's tomorrow, today. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:01:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 By: McTodd http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2009/04/20/dolls-become-actors/comment-page-1/#comment-1100684 McTodd Mon, 02 Jan 2012 14:54:53 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/?p=7635#comment-1100684 Ladislaw Starewicz was a great pioneer of stopmotion animation, and he certainly advanced the art, but he was by no means the first, not by many years. Georges Melies (who else?) apparently made the first stopmotion animated film in 1897 when he made an advertisement using animated alphabet-blocks to spell the advertiser's name. And in 1898, James Stuart Blackton (more famous for his early miniature effects work when he depicted the Battle of Manila Bay in a paddling pool) made The Humpty Dumpty Circus, regarded as the first stopmotion animated film to tell a story. Ladislaw Starewicz was a great pioneer of stopmotion animation, and he certainly advanced the art, but he was by no means the first, not by many years. Georges Melies (who else?) apparently made the first stopmotion animated film in 1897 when he made an advertisement using animated alphabet-blocks to spell the advertiser’s name. And in 1898, James Stuart Blackton (more famous for his early miniature effects work when he depicted the Battle of Manila Bay in a paddling pool) made The Humpty Dumpty Circus, regarded as the first stopmotion animated film to tell a story.

]]> By: Charlie http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2009/04/20/dolls-become-actors/comment-page-1/#comment-1067488 Charlie Wed, 22 Apr 2009 13:24:15 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/?p=7635#comment-1067488 William, actually the first issue after the name change was 6-1938: http://blog.modernmechanix.com/issue/?magname=MechanixIllustrated&magdate=6-1938 William, actually the first issue after the name change was 6-1938: http://blog.modernmechanix.com.....ate=6-1938

]]> By: William Deering http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2009/04/20/dolls-become-actors/comment-page-1/#comment-1067486 William Deering Wed, 22 Apr 2009 13:09:24 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/?p=7635#comment-1067486 Note this is a name transition issue from Modern Mechanix to Mechanix Illustrated. At the bottom of pages 56 - 57: "Mechanix Illustrated - December, 1939 formerly Modern Mechanix". Note this is a name transition issue from Modern Mechanix to Mechanix Illustrated. At the bottom of pages 56 – 57: “Mechanix Illustrated – December, 1939 formerly Modern Mechanix”.

]]> By: Firebrand38 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2009/04/20/dolls-become-actors/comment-page-1/#comment-1067481 Firebrand38 Wed, 22 Apr 2009 03:10:48 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/?p=7635#comment-1067481 Not exactly..... Not exactly…..

]]> By: jayessell http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2009/04/20/dolls-become-actors/comment-page-1/#comment-1067479 jayessell Wed, 22 Apr 2009 01:55:51 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/?p=7635#comment-1067479 Puppetoons! Puppetoons!

]]> By: Rick Auricchio http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2009/04/20/dolls-become-actors/comment-page-1/#comment-1067474 Rick Auricchio Wed, 22 Apr 2009 00:20:16 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/?p=7635#comment-1067474 If it weren't for Starewicz, we'd never have had "Mr. Bill." If it weren’t for Starewicz, we’d never have had “Mr. Bill.”

]]> By: Eli http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2009/04/20/dolls-become-actors/comment-page-1/#comment-1067463 Eli Tue, 21 Apr 2009 15:02:52 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/?p=7635#comment-1067463 Stop-motion animation (which I'm assuming is what the article is talking about; I'd love to know why the writer thought a three-paragraph summary of a fairy tale was more interesting to his readers than anything at all about the filming technique he was purportedly writing about) was most certainly *not* an idea developed by the Diehls in 1939. The earliest stop-motion film was "The Cameraman's Revenge" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIC0Sb6pLvI), filmed in 1912 by Ladislaw Starewicz. Also, the claim that "the cost is less" is rather unlikely. Stop-motion animation (which I’m assuming is what the article is talking about; I’d love to know why the writer thought a three-paragraph summary of a fairy tale was more interesting to his readers than anything at all about the filming technique he was purportedly writing about) was most certainly *not* an idea developed by the Diehls in 1939. The earliest stop-motion film was “The Cameraman’s Revenge” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIC0Sb6pLvI), filmed in 1912 by Ladislaw Starewicz.

Also, the claim that “the cost is less” is rather unlikely.

]]> By: Firebrand38 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2009/04/20/dolls-become-actors/comment-page-1/#comment-1067462 Firebrand38 Tue, 21 Apr 2009 14:12:08 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/?p=7635#comment-1067462 Here is a clip on YouTube in the original German http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHSlvkrTb74 Here is a clip on YouTube in the original German http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHSlvkrTb74

]]> By: Firebrand38 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2009/04/20/dolls-become-actors/comment-page-1/#comment-1067458 Firebrand38 Tue, 21 Apr 2009 12:34:09 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/?p=7635#comment-1067458 The Diehl Brothers http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046300/ The Diehl Brothers

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046300/

]]> By: StanFlouride http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2009/04/20/dolls-become-actors/comment-page-1/#comment-1067456 StanFlouride Tue, 21 Apr 2009 11:38:56 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/?p=7635#comment-1067456 No mention of the animators' names! No mention of the animators’ names!

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