Sisters Valentina & Zinaida Brumberg were pioneers in Soviet animation from 1920s-70s. In 1951 they adapted Gogol’s fable THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS, using a rotoscope technique Eclair, a story of a Blacksmith, the Devil, & the Czarina’s slippers. Now with subtitles! www.youtube.com/watch?v=YN2U... - ThreadSky

nannina.bsky.social • 66 days ago

Sisters Valentina & Zinaida Brumberg were pioneers in Soviet animation from 1920s-70s. In 1951 they adapted Gogol’s fable THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS, using a rotoscope technique Eclair, a story of a Blacksmith, the Devil, & the Czarina’s slippers. Now with subtitles! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YN2UVfW8H2k

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nannina.bsky.social•66 days ago

Lotte Reiniger & the Royal Mail remind you to mail your Christmas cards & packages early, otherwise an overworked Santa will go on strike, like he did in 1951. Reiniger did commercial work throughout her long career, with several charming ones for the GPO https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xY7YQ6zyawA

nannina.bsky.social•64 days ago

Starting as a collaborator of Norman Mclaren in the 1940s, Canadian animator Evelyn Lambart was on her own by 1974 using the lovely, strange stop motion cut outs you see in her THE STORY OF CHRISTMAS, giving it both a medieval & strikingly modern quality. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSQszQGJ0UI

nannina.bsky.social•63 days ago

In honor of the Solstice here is a 1936 Soviet cartoon about the Sun being swallowed by a big fish. Olga Khodataeva began her career working with the Brumberg sisters & in many ways hers ran parallel to theirs, making shorts based on Russian & indigenous folktales. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CG8fnw1ZNcU

nannina.bsky.social•62 days ago

I know I have posted two Hermina Tyrlova films already, but they're so darn charming (pun not intended but immediately embraced). In 1968 her little blue wooly guy from THE SNOWMAN returned, this time to get THE CHRISTMAS TREE… the tree has other ideas. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQAxhaCnk5c

nannina.bsky.social•62 days ago

Most of the shorts I've posted have been pretty obscure, but today's is a veritable classic (especially in the UK), that said most people don't realize that it was directed by Dianne Jackson, so here is the lovely THE SNOWMAN (1982). https://youtu.be/yx48m4ge8kc?si=M9absDtUE79kVg2O

nannina.bsky.social•60 days ago

Finishing on Christmas Eve with THE STAR OF BETHLEHEM, animated by the great Lotte Reiniger, but she handed the directing reins to her longtime producer, Vivian Milroy. A gorgeous, charming, surprisingly adventurous retelling of the Nativity, my favorite. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9k7c-MbCl7M

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