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Author Vries, Tjitte de, author

Title "They thought it was a marvel" : Arthur Melbourne-Cooper (1874-1961), pioneer of puppet animation / by Tjitte de Vries and Ati Mul
Published [Amsterdam] : Amsterdam University Press, ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (576 pages) : illustrations
Contents Preface; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part One: "Preparing Something Wonderful"; Ch 1. A Want of Sanctuaries; Ch 2. Everything to Its Own Order; Ch 3. Stubborn and Ineradicable; Ch 4. Making Miracles Possible; Ch 5. An Imaginative Pioneer; Notes on Part One; Part Two: "Picture by Picture Movement by Movement"; 36 Animation Pictures by Arthur Melbourne-Cooper; How to Use the Filmography; Ch 6. 28 Animation Pictures and Two Inserts; Ch 7. The Langford Period 1925-1940 Eight Cinema Advertisements; Ch 8. Possibles and (Im)probables; Notes on Part Two -- Filmography
Summary In a world obsessed with 'firsts', this fascinating book with its accompanying DVD analyses the stop-motion films made by the British pioneer filmmaker Arthur Melbourne-Cooper, arguably the maker of the first ever animation
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 553-563), filmography and indexes
Notes English
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Subject Melbourne-Cooper, Arthur, 1874-1961.
Melbourne-Cooper, Arthur, 1874-1961
Motion picture producers and directors -- Great Britain
Animated films -- History and criticism.
PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- Direction & Production.
Animated films
Motion picture producers and directors
Great Britain
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Mul, Ati
LC no. 2010442188
ISBN 9789048507825
9048507820
1282591886
9781282591882
9786612591884
6612591889