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Film by the remarkable Russian animator Yuriy Borisovich Norshteyn (Russian: Ю́рий Бори́сович Норште́йн), or alternately: Yuri Norstein or Yuri Norshtein (born September 15, 1941). He is an award-winning Russian animator best known for his animated shorts, Hedgehog in the Fog and Tale of Tales. Most of his films were made by the same small team - his wife the artist Francesca Yarbusova, his cameraman the late Alexander Zhukovsky, and the late composer M. Meyerovich.
Wikipedia: biography
The visuals and voice overs combine to make the ad a lot of fun to watch.
Agency: KASPEN Prague
Creative director: Lester Tullett
Art Director: Jaime Mandelbaum
Copywriter: Emiliano Trierveiler
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Inventive, wittily creative, and animated with a physical humor that transcends language and time.
According to The Motion Brigades:
Between 1965 and 1967, Czechoslovakian animator Bretislav Pojar made a series of six shorts called Hey Mister, Let's Play. The mostly stop-motion cartoons star two bears—one smart, the other not so much. Pojar made five more episodes featuring the same bears in the early-1970s, this time calling it Who Threw That, Gentlemen?.
This video is the first short—"Potkali se u Kolina" ("How They Met At Kolin")—which introduces the characters. The cartoon is over forty years old yet it looks as fresh and vital as any cartoon being produced today. How did they ever manage to create something with so much charm and appeal? It's not an easy thing to accomplish, and director Pojar and designer Miroslav Stepanek make it all look so effortless. The animation of the characters is particularly fun to watch with stylized movement and graphic inventiveness abound.
Shortly before leaving Disney, Tim Burton developed a friendship with Vincent Price during the creation of this film.
Burton later described the experience as life-shaping.
Vincent Price narrates Tim Burton's poem. Animated with a combination of stop motion and 2D.
Vincent: IMDB
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Madame Tutli Putli is included in the following DVD:
A Collection of 2007 Academy Award: Nominated Short Films
The film won a 2008 Documentary Emmy.
Thanks to Jayne McKay for recommending the film to me.
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