UID:
kobvindex_ZLB14093104
Format:
16 Min.
Content:
Puppet animation made to be shown in the Standard Oil exhibit at the at the 1939 New York World's Fair. Narration was delivered "live" that would match the pre-recorded narration in the film, so that the stage narrator would ask a question answered by the screen narrator, and vice versa.
Content:
Losey's first film, "Pete Roleum and His Cousins." Having supervised the production of educational montage films prior to 1938, he gathered Helen Van Dongen (later to edit Robert Flaherty's classic "Louisiana Story"), co-writer Kenneth White, and composers Hanns Eisler & Oscar Levant, and fashioned a propaganda piece for the petroleum industry, enacted via fascinating rubber puppets animated by Charles Bowers. Taking a year to complete, the film was shown at the 1939 World's Fair, and originally employed a set of rear speakers meant to imitate a "heckler" that conversed with the film's characters. The archived film, shot in Technicolor and lacking any formal titles, is in surprisingly good shape, and contains both the recorded narration by Hiram Sherman, and the echoey "heckler" track. (KQEK)
Note:
Fassung der Cinémathèque Quebecoise
In:
Charley Bowers : un génie à redécouvrir ; [DVD Video], Paris, [ca. 2003], (2003)
Language:
English
Keywords:
Mineralölindustrie
;
Werbefilm
;
Geschichte 1939
;
DVD-Video
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DVD-Video
Author information:
Losey, Joseph
Author information:
Eisler, Hanns
Author information:
Durant, Helen
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