Puppetoons

Puppetoons

George Pal's Puppetoons were a series of animated puppet films made in Europe in the 1930s and in the U.S. in the 1940s. They are memorable for their use of "replacement" animation - using a new hand-carved wooden puppet for each frame of film (or cycling them), rather than moving a single puppet, as is the case with most stop-motion puppet animation.

The series began when Pal made an advertising film using "dancing" cigarettes in 1932, which led to a series of theatrical advertising shorts for Philips Radio in the Netherlands. This was followed by a series for Horlicks Malted Milk in England. These shorts are notable for their remarkable art deco design (much of it supervised by art director Joop Geesink), often reducing characters to simple geometric shapes. The outstanding replacement animation in these shorts has never been equaled. A typical Puppetoon required 9,000 individually carved and machined wooden figures or parts.

Pal came to the U.S. in 1940, and produced dozens of Puppetoons for Paramount Pictures, several of which received Academy Award nominations, including "Jasper and the Haunted House", "Jasper in a Jam", "Tubby the Tuba", and " [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038657/ John Henry and the Inky-Poo] ."

In 1956, the Puppetoons as well as most of Paramount's shorts, were sold to television distributor U.M.&M. T.V. Corp.. National Telefilm Associates bought out U.M.&M. and continued to syndicate them in the 1950s and 1960s as "Madcap Models." Unfortunately, a number of these shorts featured a black boy named Jasper and are rarely shown on television due to racial stereotyping concerns.

Pal also used the Puppetoon name, if not the technique, in several of his feature films, including "The Great Rupert", "Tom Thumb" and "The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm".

External links

* [http://www.awn.com/heaven_and_hell/PAL/GP2.htm The George Pal Puppetoon Site]


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