Sunday, December 29, 2013

Louisa May Alcott's ORCHARD HOUSE

Louisa May Alcott's ORCHARD HOUSE
Home of the Alcotts & Little Women

Part 1


Part 2

Thursday, December 19, 2013

Animation by Schwizgebel & Te Wei

The Man Without a Shadow (2004)
Georges Schwizgebel



Feeling from Mountain and Water (1988) Shan shui qing
Te Wei


More at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Schwizgebel
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Te_Wei

Tuesday, December 17, 2013

Filmmaker Ladislas Starevich

Ladislas Starevich with his daughter Irene

Starevich with his puppets

Vladislav Starevich (Russian: Владисла́в Алекса́ндрович Старе́вич, Polish: Władysław Starewicz; August 8, 1882 – February 26, 1965), was a Russian and French stop-motion animator notable as the author of the first puppet-animated film (i.e. The Beautiful Lukanida (1912)). He also used insects and other animals as protagonists of his films. (His name can also be spelled Starevitch, Starewich and Starewitch.)

"The Insects' Christmas" by filmmaker Ladislaw Starewizc (1913) is one of the earliest examples of stop-motion animation. Music by Tom Peters.


Fétiche Prestidigitateur - The Ringmaster (1934)


An excerpt from Le Roman de Renard - The Tale of the Fox (1930-1939)


More on the work of Ladislas Starevich at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ladislas_Starevich

Saturday, December 7, 2013

Much Ado About Nothing

The 2011 Globe's version of Much Ado About Nothing

Act I


Act II, Scene I


Act II, Scene II-III


Act III, Scenes I-II


Act III, Scenes III-V


Act IV


Act V, Scene I


Act V, Scene II-End


For more see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Much_Ado_About_Nothing