puppetry

Jim Henson and @TheFrankOzJam talk to Russell Harty about The Dark Crystal (1983)

Video | | Paul Greer

Random office conversation today started at the Matrix and went to Dr Who then Star Wars then to the Dark Crystal. That triggered a vague memory of an episode of the Russell Harty Show which I saw go out live where Jim Henson and Frank Oz were interviewed and I was sure that some of the actual creatures from the film came on stage and proper freaked the audience out. Surely I had made this up!

So I searched YouTube and there it was!

The final few moments where the creature smashed through the set and runs at the front row was the thing I remembered the most.

EXCERPTS >|< The Mascot (1933)

| Paul Greer

 

reblogging: okkultmotionpictures:

EXCERPTS >|< The Mascot (1933)

A series of gifs excerpted from The Mascot: a fabulous and surreal stop-motion film by Wladislaw Starewicz, a master animator by 1933.

We invite you to watch the full video HERE

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Una serie di gif estratte da The Mascot: un film surreale in stop-motion di Wladislaw Starewicz, del 1933.

Vi invitiamo a vedere il video originale QUI

EXCERPTS by OKKULT MOTION PICTURES: a collection of gifs excerpted from open source/unknown/rare/controversial moving images. A digital humanities project for the diffusion of open knowledge.

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The Berlin Reunion

Link | | Paul Greer

“Earlier this week, 1.5 million people filled the streets of Berlin, Germany to watch a several-day performance by France’s Royal de Luxe street theatre company titled “The Berlin Reunion“. Part of the celebrations of the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Reunion show featured two massive marionettes, the Big Giant, a deep-sea diver, and his niece, the Little Giantess. The storyline of the performance has the two separated by a wall, thrown up by “land and sea monsters”. The Big Giant has just returned from a long and difficult – but successful – expedition to destroy the wall, and now the two are walking the streets of Berlin, seeking each other after many years apart. I’ll let the photos below tell the rest of the story.“

via Katie West