Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR
About What's happening. (Eugene, OR) 1982-1993 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 27, 1987)
Arnie the Dinosaur reviews the Academy Award winning animation of George Pal in The Puppetoon Movie. NEW! Visit our Salad Case Featuring a variety of fresh, delicious salads daily! Sweet Rolls every Saturday and Sunday! Mon.-Fri. 6:30-5:30 • Sat. 8-5 • Sun. 9-3 795 West 8th — 342-4390 Corner of 8th & Monroe NOW OPEN IN EUGENE! Arsons 9 LADIES' DISCOUNT APPAREL ( I FOR ALL OF YOUR BACK TO SCHOOL I CLOTHING NEEDS V 4 $ t EVERYTHING' IN THE STORE $8 ■ AND LESS ■ • Dresses • Blouses • Pants • Skirts • Sweaters • Coordinates V Corner of 18th Ave. & Willamette St. EUGENE • 343-9907 _HOURS: Mon thru Fri 10-8, Sat 10-6 & Sun 12-5 | | 1485 MOHAWK (NEAR BI-MART) SPFLP, 747-3807 | ■CINEMA Review: The Puppetoon Movie, Czech Animation Unique double bill at Festival by Lois Wadsworth The Puppetoon Movie featuring the work of George Pal and recent Czech animation by Jiri Barta The Puppetoon Movie is the compilation of nine full length shorts and segments from ten other featurettes Hungarian-born animator George Pal created be tween 1937-1947. Forced by necessity to develop his own animation techniques in pre-war Europe, George Pal, who went on to produce live-action films like The Wir of the Worlds, Houdini, The Naked Jungle, The Time Machine, The Wonderful Hbrld of the Brothers Grimm and The Seven Faces of Doctor Lao, began his filmmaking career by making commercials. “In Hungary and most Euro pean countries at that time, you had commercials in the movies. They were looking for different ways to film commercials. And we knew of animated films. We had the American cartoons, Felix the Cat, Oswald the Rab bit, and I tried to copy them as much as I could for commercial purposes. / had to find out how you draw animated cartoons, because there were no books on it, nothing. Fortunately I met a Hungarian, George Feld, who had come back from Holly wood, and he was an editor. And he told me how cartoons were made.” Not only did Pal have to learn the process of film animation from the ground up, but he had to con tend with an unstable political climate as well. He wanted to work in Germany but couldn’t stay because of the Nazis. His next stop was Prague, where he de signed his own animation camera. With his wife he made films out of a hotel room in Paris; they moved eventually to Holland, where he coined the term "Pup petoons” for his creations. Pal’s European-made commercial films from that period include The Philips Broadcast 1938, Philip's Cavalcade, The Sleeping Beauty, and South Sea Sweethearts. By 1941 George Pal was making movies in Hollywood where he set up a studio to create his “color cartoons in three dimensions.” Us ing hand-carved wooden puppets with a series of heads for a com plete range of facial expressions, flexible arms, and a series of legs for walking, Pal and his associates made over 40 musical shorts (each about six to eight minutes long). Tulips Shall Grow (which shows the Nazi invasion of Holland), ■ PHOTO CONTEST Join the Eugene Celebration in capturing Oregon’s unique “Faces and Places” on the camera. Enter a photo in either the "Faces” or “Places” category. Pick up entry form and rules at any Dot Dotson’s store, the Eugene Celebration office, or at What’s Happening. r i DEADLINE: September 11, 5 pm [Turtu %a8ee ec — 87fw GRAND PRIZE: Nikon Action Touch Camera FIRST PRIZE (in each category): $50 Dot Dotson gift certificate SECOND PRIZE (in each category): $25 Dot Dotson gift certificate HONORABLE MENTIONS: Exhibited at the Eugene Celebration Car Care with a Conscience Audi • BMW Porsche ’Volkswagen Alfa Romeo European Automotive Specialists 687-0040 1975 W /tt Avenue Eugene. Oregon 9/402 Hours 8am to 5 30 p m ra mill n n hine Automotive Workmanship John Henry and the Inky Poo, and Tubby the Tuba were Academy Award nominess. The other Para mount films included in The Puppetoon Movie are Together in the Weather and Jasper in a Jam, 1946, which features the jazz of bandleader Charlie Barnett and singer Peggy Lee. Czechoslovakian animator Jiri Barta's hour long film fantasy, The Pied Piper, and two shorter pieces, Ballad of the Greenwood and The Extinct of W)rld Gloves gives us a taste for the kind of work going on at Trnka Studios. In The Pied Piper, exquisite hand-carved wooden puppets are superimposed on architecturally fabulous sets. Barta’s storytelling is stylish and modern. There is no need for translation; the “spoken” words are gibberish, a universal language never more creatively employed. The themes are darker than American cutesy-pie cartoons—greed, ambition, violence all have their role in The Pied Piper—as they do in life. The Grimm brothers recognized that many of the stories they collected included such dark undercurrents, but American animators like Walt Disney and whoever decided American kiddies shouldn’t be ex posed to such ideas, established an idea-less American cartoon in dustry that has led over time to such insipidities as the Care Bears. Barta’s pictures are hip tales, not morality plays. The early genius of George Pal and the current works of Jiri Barta make a double bill not to be missed. NNO O.86 WEA Grand Opening SALE unisex activewear 877 E. 13th St. next to U of 0 Bookstore campus 342-6375 noteworthy ================== m ! | l ,T ■ “Noteworthy, you take my breath away! 199 | •LOCATED* AFIFTHPEARL # SHOPS FIFTH AND PEARL k
