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1928 In Animation
Events in 1928 in animation. Events February * February 13: The Laurel & Hardy short film '' Flying Elephants'' is released. It has a short animated sequence with a flying elephant, animated by Walter Lantz. September * September 1: Paul Terry's '' Farmer Alfalfa'' cartoon '' Dinner Time'' is an early attempt to synchronize animation with sound. November * November 18: Walt Disney's '' Steamboat Willie'' is released, one of the first cartoons with a synchronized soundtrack. It marks the debuts of Mickey, and Minnie Mouse. It also launches the long-running film series ''Mickey Mouse''. November 18 will later be officially declared as the chaacters' birthday. Films released * 5 January – ''Short Circuit'' (United States) * 8 January – ''The Smoke Scream'' (United States) * 14 January – ''Pig Styles'' (United States) * 22 January – ''Draggin' th' Dragon'' (United States) * 28 January – ''Shadow Theory'' (United States) * 5 February – ''The Oily Bird'' ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laurel & Hardy
Laurel and Hardy were a British-American comedy duo act during the early Classical Hollywood era of American cinema, consisting of Englishman Stan Laurel (1890–1965) and American Oliver Hardy (1892–1957). Starting their career as a duo in the silent film era, they later successfully transitioned to "talkies". From the late 1920s to the mid-1950s, they were internationally famous for their slapstick comedy, with Laurel playing the clumsy, childlike friend to Hardy's pompous bully. Their signature theme song, known as "The Cuckoo Song", "Ku-Ku", or "The Dance of the Cuckoos" (by Hollywood composer T. Marvin Hatley) was heard over their films' opening credits, and became as emblematic of them as their bowler hats. Prior to emerging as a team, both had well-established film careers. Laurel had acted in over 50 films, and worked as a writer and director, while Hardy was in more than 250 productions. Both had appeared in ''The Lucky Dog'' (1921), but were not teamed at the time. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bright Lights (1928 Film)
''Bright Lights'' is a 1928 silent cartoon short by the Walt Disney Studio and Winkler Productions featuring Oswald the Lucky Rabbit. It is among the few short films of the series Walt Disney himself worked on before leaving that same year. Overview Previously in 1927, Oswald had an oval face, a chubbier waist, and pants with a single suspender. By 1928, he is given a makeover with a rounder head, slimmer waist, and shorts. Despite this change, the rabbit's 1927 appearance remained on the title cards until ''High Up''. His shorts would be his only outfit until 1930. Plot A show composed of a concert, Broadway, and circus acts is taking place at a theater in the city. One of the stars of the show is a lady cat dancer, for whom Oswald develops sudden affection upon seeing a poster. The show's admission is 50 cents. Unfortunately for Oswald, his pockets are empty. Oswald notices a stage entrance where performers and certain officials can enter the theater without paying admission. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dom (film)
''Dom'' (Polish for ''House'') is a 1958 Polish short film directed by Walerian Borowczyk and Jan Lenica. The short combines live action with various animation techniques, such as stop motion, cut-out animation and pixilation. Plot A woman (played by Borowczyk's wife Ligia Branice) has a series of surreal, dream-like hallucinations and encounters within the confines of a lonely apartment building. Some of these bizarre occurrences include various abstract objects appearing in a room, two men engaging in fencing and martial arts, a man entering and leaving a room repeatedly, and a living wig destroying several items on a table. The film ends with the woman passionately kissing a male mannequin's face before it crumbles to pieces. Awards ''Dom'' was nominated to the 1959 BAFTA Film Award, in the category "Best Animated Film", but lost to ''The Violinist''. See also * List of avant-garde films of the 1950s This is a list of avant-garde and experimental films released in the 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jan Lenica
Jan Lenica (4 January 1928, Poznań, Poland – 5 October 2001, Berlin) was a Polish graphic designer and cartoonist. A graduate of the Architecture Department of Warsaw Polytechnic, Lenica became a poster illustrator and a collaborator on the early animation films of Walerian Borowczyk. From 1963 – 1986 he lived and worked in France, while from 1987 he lived and worked in Berlin. He was a professor of graphic, poster, animated cartoon for many years at German high schools and the first professor of the animation class at the University of Kassel, Germany, in 1979. He used Cutout animation, cut-out stop motion animation in his numerous films, which included two feature film, features: ''Adam 2'' (1968) and ''Ubu et la grande gidouille'' (1976, but released in France only in 1979). Major awards *1960 - Nominated for a BAFTA Film Award for ''Dom (film), Dom''. Shared with Polish Walerian Borowczyk *1961 - Toulouse-Lautrec Grand Prix, Versailles (France) *1961 - Golden Dragon for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Gallopin' Gaucho
''The Gallopin' Gaucho'' is the second short film featuring Mickey Mouse to be produced, following ''Plane Crazy'' and preceding ''Steamboat Willie''. The Disney studios completed the silent version in August 1928, but did not release it in order to work on ''Steamboat Willie''. It was released, with sound, after ''Steamboat Willie''. Both Mickey and Minnie Mouse had already made their initial debuts with the test screening of ''Plane Crazy'' on May 15, 1928. However that film had also failed to catch the attention of distributors when first produced as a silent film. ''The Gallopin' Gaucho'' was a second attempt at success by co-directors Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks. The latter also served as the sole animator for it. As the title implies, the short was intended as a parody of Douglas Fairbanks's ''The Gaucho'', a film first released on November 21, 1927. Following the original film, the events of the short take place in the Pampas of Argentina with Mickey cast as the ''gaucho'' o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Animal Olympic Games
is a Japanese animation film from 1928. It was directed and animated by Yasuji Murata for Yokohama Cinema Shōkai. Plot At the Olympic Games of animals, the most diverse species of animals compete in the sporting disciplines. Monkeys do gymnastics on the horizontal bar, bears and hippos swim and kangaroos and pigs fight against each other. In the 800 m run, a duck wins against a bulldog, a hippopotamus and a camel. A polar bear enters the pole vault and the pigs try to gain an advantage in the hurdles with balloons, but crash. Production and Release The film was inspired by the 1928 Summer Olympics The 1928 Summer Olympics ( nl, Olympische Zomerspelen 1928), officially known as the Games of the IX Olympiad ( nl, Spelen van de IXe Olympiade) and commonly known as Amsterdam 1928, was an international multi-sport event that was celebrated from ... in Amsterdam, and was made in Yasuji Murata's film studio, Yokohama Cinema Shōkai. Murata himself was director and responsibl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dinner Time (cartoon)
''Dinner Time'' (1928) is an American animation, animated short subject produced by Amadee J. Van Beuren, directed by Paul Terry (cartoonist), Paul Terry, co-directed by John Foster (cartoonist), John Foster, and produced at Van Beuren Studios. Josiah Zuro arranged and conducted the "synchronized" music score. The film is part of a series entitled ''Aesop's Fables (film series), Aesop's Fables'' and features the Terry creation Farmer Al Falfa who works as a butcher, fending off a group of pesky dogs. ''Dinner Time'' was one of the first publicly shown sound-on-film cartoons. It premiered at the Strand Theater New York City in August 1928 (according to the August 22 edition ''Film Daily'') and released by Pathé Exchange on October 14, 1928, a month before Walt Disney's sound cartoon, ''Steamboat Willie''. ''Dinner Time'' was not successful with audiences and Disney's film would be widely touted as the first synchronized sound cartoon. Max Fleischer, Max and Dave Fleischer release ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ghosts Before Breakfast
''Ghosts Before Breakfast'' (german: Vormittagsspuk) is a 1928 German dadaist animated short film directed by Hans Richter. It utilizes stop motion for some of its effects and live action for others. The film does not present a coherent narrative, and includes a number of seemingly arbitrary images. The original accompanying score composed by Paul Hindemith for a player piano is regarded as lost. New audio tracks have been created by artists such as The Real Tuesday Weld. British composer Ian Gardiner, who has written many scores for cinema and television, created a score for the film in 2006 (premiered by the Liverpool group Ensemble 10/10, directed by Clark Rundell). The UK ensemble Counterpoise (violin, trumpet, saxophone, piano) premiered American composer Jean Hasse's score in 2008, touring the UK - it can be seen on YouTube. Cast In alphabetical order * Werner Graeff * Walter Gronostay * Paul Hindemith * Darius Milhaud * Madeleine Milhaud Madeleine Milhaud Milhaud ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tall Timber (1928 Film)
''Tall Timber'' is a 1928 silent animated short film starring Oswald the Lucky Rabbit and is the 23rd in the series. In terms of production, the film was for many years the last extant Oswald cartoon directed by Walt Disney, until late 2015, when '' Sleigh Bells'', the Oswald cartoon made after ''Tall Timber'', was rediscovered. Plot Oswald is canoeing down a rough river. Upon reaching his destination, which is the lake, Oswald brings out his rifle and decides to go duck hunting. The ducks, however, are quite clever, and Oswald ends up shooting a hole in his boat, thus sinking it. He was unintendedly brought to dry ground by a moose. While walking downhill, Oswald is chased by a boulder. His efforts to outrun the large rock are in vain as it rams him flat against a tree. In an attempt to restore his normal shape, Oswald drops a smaller rock on top of himself. This results in him having a more spherical physique, making it difficult for him to walk. As he goes walking, Oswald s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Fox Chase
''The Fox Chase'' is an Oswald the Lucky Rabbit short released on June 25, 1928. Synopsis A comic running-of-the-fox with Oswald atop a reluctant horse against a smarter-than-usual fox. Story Oswald is in a fox chase competition, with other participants and several dogs. The fox teases the dogs and the competition owner blows a horn (instrument), horn for everyone to be prepared, the owner of the competition throws a gun as a way of saying that the competition has started. Everyone runs forward and Oswald and Horace are left behind while Horace is jumping in the same corner and throws Oswald up and makes him go down on tail like a playground slide instead of running. Horace is stubborn and doesn't want to move on just to make fun of Oswald while the poor rabbit gets hurt. Oswald even so tries two times to mount the horse jumping on his back but Horace prevents it and he gets up higher. Oswald also tries to put a ladder behind Horace, but it doesn't work. Oswald tries to tie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poor Papa
''Poor Papa'' is a 1927 animated short subject film, produced and directed by Walt Disney. The cartoon is the first produced Oswald cartoon, featuring Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, a character that Disney and Ub Iwerks created for Universal Pictures and Charles B. Mintz. Oswald would later serve as the basis for the Mickey Mouse film series. This was the first Oswald short made but the twenty-first Oswald short to be released. Plot Oswald paces nervously outside a room where his wife is giving birth. A succession of storks fly over the house and drop numerous babies down the chimney. The doctor exits the birthing room, congratulates Oswald and begins to count a large number on his fingers. Oswald stops him and rushes into the room to see his wife in bed with more than 30 babies. On Saturday night, Oswald washes the children in a barrel and, tying them together, runs the string of them through a wringer and hangs them up to dry. A number of children are playing outside the house. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oh What A Knight
''Oh What a Knight'' is an American animated short film directed by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks and released in 1928 by Universal Pictures. The film features Oswald the Lucky Rabbit trying to save his girlfriend Ortensia from her strict father, Pete, using unusual fighting skills, including him using his own shadow. This short cartoon shows Oswald's distinct personality, inspired by Douglas Fairbanks, for his courageous and adventurous attitude."Oswald Comes Home" (DVD). (2007). '' Walt Disney Treasures: The Adventures of Oswald The Lucky Rabbit'' (Disc 1). Buena Vista Home Entertainment, Inc. Plot In the Middle Ages, Oswald, a minstrel, rides his horse while singing and playing a concertina. He reaches a stone tower in which Pete is keeping his daughter Ortensia captive. He scales the tower and he kisses Ortensia. Pete appears carrying a spear. Oswald grabs a sword and they fight. Pete breaks through a wall and gets stuck, allowing Oswald to free Ortensia from the large ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
