The Lumière Brothers (1897)
A skeleton dances joyously, often collapsing into a heap of bones and quickly putting itself back together.
The Merry Skeleton
A skeleton dances joyously, often collapsing into a heap of bones and quickly putting itself back together.
SO impressive considering when it was made. Thanks for showing it.
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No problem at all! Thanks for watching!
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I’m glad someone had the presence of mind to preserve it so we have the privilege to see it now, over a 100 years later.
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Me too. Very enjoyable to see the painstaking work of filmmakers from the begone past. Thanks for watching:)
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This impresses me more than any thing modern because of what they had to work with…and it’s still cool.
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Agreed. I love this early stuff. It seems as though it was cut a bit short, but I’m not sure.
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I did get that feeling also.
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They may have just been playing around and experimenting. It was the only time they had done stop-motion
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What an exciting time that must have been for movie makers of all kinds. The sky was the limit…they even played with sound also…some people did.
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It would have been. Agai, I was born to the wrong generation. I suppose digital allows more people access to production, but not quite in the same way.
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No and CGI sometimes doesn’t look right…not like the real thing…that would be harder to do but a big payoff
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Totally agree with you. With CGI and computer animation it’s sometimes hard to tell what you’re even looking at.
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I don’t mind if CGI is used as…uh scenery…or to dress up something but not as the main thing.
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