#Bales2023FilmChallenge April 11: Ride a #submarine on #NationalSubmarineDav

Karel Zeman was a Czech film maker who seemingly magically combined live action with #StopMotion #animation. In his Vynález zkázy [A Deadly Invention] (1958), loosely based on #JulesVerne's Face au Drapeau, a professor is kidnapped by a fiendish count who wants to get his hands on a terrible super-weapon. Underwater pursuits commence! Based on the engravings that accompany the Verne story, Zeman came up with fantastic highly stylised in-camera effects that make the sets, actors and props resemble cross-hatched etchings.

That's more than enough words, here's the #trailer https://yewtu.be/watch?v=9ZLfe5xad4U

#film #cinema #Czechoslovakia #KarelZeman #JulesVerne #satire #science #SciFi #adventure #ZdeněkLiška #FilMastodon #CineMastodon @film https://letterboxd.com/12pt9/list/bales2023filmchallenge/

#Bales2023FilmChallenge April 11: Ride a #submarine on #NationalSubmarineDav

Karel Zeman was a Czech film maker who seemingly magically combined live action with #StopMotion #animation. In his Vynález zkázy [A Deadly Invention] (1958), loosely based on #JulesVerne's Face au Drapeau, a professor is kidnapped by a fiendish count who wants to get his hands on a terrible super-weapon. Underwater pursuits commence! Based on the engravings that accompany the Verne story, Zeman came up with fantastic highly stylised in-camera effects that make the sets, actors and props resemble cross-hatched etchings.

That's more than enough words, here's the #trailer https://yewtu.be/watch?v=9ZLfe5xad4U

#film #cinema #Czechoslovakia #KarelZeman #JulesVerne #satire #science #SciFi #adventure #ZdeněkLiška #FilMastodon #CineMastodon @film https://letterboxd.com/12pt9/list/bales2023filmchallenge/

Wer hätte gedacht, dass unsere Zeit noch große Entdeckungen zulässt? Karel Zemans Meisterwerk "Baron Prašil" steht einfach so im @internetarchive ein. Die Handlung: Ein junger Kosmonaut erreicht den Mond und trifft dort auf Cyrano de Bergerac und andere Pioniere der phantastischen Raumfahrt. Baron Münchhausen nimmt ihn sponatan auf eine Spritztour zur Erde mit. Dass ich das noch sehen darf. https://archive.org/details/the-fabulous-baron-munchausen #KarelZeman #BaronPrasil

#KarelZeman films are poetry in pictures!
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These excerpts from a 1980 documentary about Czech animator Karel Zeman show how some of Karel’s special effects were achieved in the movies he made between 1947-1980

[full video + read more: https://buff.ly/3LAKWnn]

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1611722158660526081