| The Hand (1965) - Jiri Trnka - Part 1 - 532 sec
The Hand (1965) - Jiri Trnka - Part 1
Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbTX_PKfojg
The last, and most polemic, movie from Trnka. A brilliant animation that confronts totalitarianism and had been banned for decades for Czech government.
It must be seen.
Auteur : mfalavigna
Tags: The Hand Ruka Jirí Trnka czech short movie
 | | The Merry Circus - Jiri Trnka - Part 1 - 359 sec
Awesome paper cutout stop-motion animation by the legendary Jiri Trnka.
Auteur : stabbey
Tags:Jiri Trnka Merry Circus stop-motion animaiton paper cutouts awesome
| | Documentary on Jiri Trnka : PART 1 - 378 sec
Many people consider Jirí Trnka the greatest puppet animator the world has ever seen. This Czech master directed some of the most acclaimed animated films ever made. He continues to astound audiences, particularly those not familiar with his work. In 1966, four years before his death, Newsday lauded him as "second to Chaplin as a film artist because his work inaugurated a new stage in a medium long dominated by Disney."
"Jiri Trnka -- Walt Disney Of The East!"
This was the heading of an article written by an English journalist after he saw Trnka's wide screen puppet feature film The Midsummer Night's Dream at the Cannes Film Festival in 1959. He exaggerated in many ways, as there were many differences between the two great artists. The least of which is that Disney focused his work on the children or family audience, while Trnka addressed most of his films to the adult audience. He arrived to the first post-war Cannes Festival in 1946 with his three cartoons (his filmmaking career had only begun on May 29, 1945, when a group of young animators asked the famous book illustrator to become their boss!) Despite the fact that his fairytale cartoon The Robbers and the Animalswon the festival, another film that was entered, The Present,was of more importance to Trnka's work. The Present(written by J. Brdecka) was a cartoon for adults -- a satire with Trnka's very own individual art design and a non-Disney way of storytelling. This film was completely misunderstood until Stephen Bosustow congratulated Trnka on it three years later. If you compare The Presentwith UPA's productions you know why! It was a visible step that divided post-war animation into two groups: the productions of big studios (classics) and films that were modern expressions, created in form and content by strong, individual personalities.
Auteur : TheMotionBrigades
Tags:jiri trnka cybernetic grandma kratky film archangel praha czech stop motion gabriel svankmajer klimt fimfarum quay
| | Old Czech Legends : by Jiri Trnka - 588 sec
After exhausting work on a long puppet film, Bajaja, Trnka gathered his creative strength for another ambitious enterprise, to transpose into the form of a puppet movie the "Legends of Old Bohemia," a collection of narratives about the oldest period of Czech history, in which history is mixed with mythology. It was not a simple task and doubts appeared from the very beginning. However, Trnka was convinced that puppets were most suitable for expressing the magic as well as the solemnity of old stories and myths. From the book by Alois Jirásek, who had shaped these legends according to old chronicles and records (the book was published in 1894), he selected six stories: the arrival of First Father (Patriarch) Czech in the territory of contemporary Bohemia; the legend about the strong Bivoj; the legend of Prłemysl the Ploughman, founder of the royal dynasty of Prłemyslites reigning in Bohemia until the 15th century; the story of the Young Women's War; about Horymír who stood up to defend the farmers' labor; and the legend of the Lucko War which is won by Cestmír, a hero of the people. Trnka did not restrict himself exclusively to Jirásek's conception; while planning the screenplay, he took into consideration the most recent archaeological research which helped him interpret the probable material and cultural conditions of life in those days. However, Jirásek's text, together with the archaeological research, was, for Trnka, merely a foundation on which he built a structure according to his own imagination and invention.
From the point of view of Trnka's creative career, Old Czech Legends represents a fundamental metamorphosis in his work. This change was manifested most expressively in the puppets themselves. In comparison with Spalícłek, The Emperor's Nightingale, and Bajaja, whose common trait was fragility and charm, the puppets in the Legends are monumentally dramatic and tragic, more individualized; their countenance expresses their character, the inner essence of the represented person. Another radical innovation was the breaking of unity between the music and the picture because, in this film, Trnka's puppets speak for the first time. Václav Trojan's music does not lose its importance but it is incorporated into the overall sound design including dialogue and sound effects.
The stories in Old Czech Legends combine to form a total composition. The majestic arrival of Patriarch Czech is followed by the struggle of Bivoj with a wild boar; the epic about Prłemysl has lyrical passages, the Young Women's War a capricious, almost erotic mood. The dramatic narrative about Horymír is remarkable for its crowd scenes and its conclusion in which Horymír jumps over the Moldau River. The most remarkable is probably the last episode of the Legends, the narrative about the cowardly Duke Neklan, who must be replaced in the war by a people's hero, Cestmír. The characterization of Neklan pushes the puppet movie to its farthest limits in expressing psychological attitudes. In his monograph about Trnka, Jaroslav Boček describes it as an extraordinary study of cowardice which we can only rarely find even in a movie with human actors. The second part of the story—Cestmír's battle with the Lukanians—is remarkable from another point of view. Trnka used from 70 to 100 puppets in battle scenes. Control of such a multitude of inanimate actors was, from the artistic and technical standpoint, an unusually demanding task, unthinkable in a puppet movie until then. Moreover, Trnka found, jointly with his animators, the precise shade of dramatic mood and rhythm, so that the movements of the crowd were harmonious.
The Legends occupy an important place in Trnka's extensive work. Trnka discovered here a new style of puppet movie, characterized by a transition from lyricism to drama and by the depiction of an individualized, psychologically conditioned hero. That this new style had the potential for further development was demonstrated by Trnka's subsequent puppet movies The Good Soldier Svejk and The Dream of the Night of St. John.
Auteur : TheMotionBrigades
Tags:jiri trnka midsummer nights old czech legends kratky film praha svankmajer servais lenica quay pospisilova karel zeman
| | The Cybernetic Grandma : by Jiri Trnka : PART 1/3 - 610 sec
Part one of "The Cybernetic Grandma" Made in 1962 by Jiri Trnka.
Jiří Trnka (24 February 1912, Plzeň - 30 December 1969, Prague) was a Czech puppet maker, illustrator, motion-picture animator and film director, renowned for his stop motion puppet animations.
He graduated from the Prague School of Arts and Crafts. He created a puppet theater in 1936. This group was dissolved when World War II began, and he instead designed stage sets and illustrated books for children throughout the war.
After the end of the war, Trnka established an animation unit at the Prague film studio. Trnka soon became internationally recognized as the world's greatest puppet animator in the traditional Czech method, and he won several film festival awards. One animator called him "the Walt Disney of the East".
He won an award at the Cannes Festival in 1946, just one year after he began working in film. His films were mostly made for an adult audience. Beginning in 1948, the communist Czech government began to subsidize his work, although this did not seem to affect the message or style of his work. He also created animated cartoons. He wrote the scripts for most of his own films. He died of heart trouble in 1969.
Trnka's sci-fi "The Cybernetic Grandma" was a vision of the future in which machines and robots try to substitute themselves into the most beautiful human relationships. A cybernetic robot is supposed to substitute for the loving grandmother of a little girl. The wise grandmother, however, comes back and the girl finds the warmth of her grandmother's loving arms again.
Auteur : TheMotionBrigades
Tags:jiri trnka cybernetic grandma kratky film praha czech stop motion animation svankmajer klimt fimfarum quay
| | Dva Mrazici : PART 1 : by Jiri Trnka and Bretislav Pojar - 399 sec
Part one of "Two Little Frosts". A puppet film based on a Slovakian Fairy tale. A pair of frosts make a bet on which of them will bite a farmer most severely." Directed by Jirí Trnka, 1953.
Auteur : TheMotionBrigades
Tags:Dva Mrazici jiri trnka bretislav pojar kratky film praha jan werich fimfarum barta svankamjer quay tim burton
| | Documentary on Jiri Trnka : PART 2 - 318 sec
Part two of a documentary on Jiri Trnka
Many people consider Jirí Trnka the greatest puppet animator the world has ever seen. This Czech master directed some of the most acclaimed animated films ever made. He continues to astound audiences, particularly those not familiar with his work. In 1966, four years before his death, Newsday lauded him as "second to Chaplin as a film artist because his work inaugurated a new stage in a medium long dominated by Disney."
"Jiri Trnka -- Walt Disney Of The East!"
This was the heading of an article written by an English journalist after he saw Trnka's wide screen puppet feature film The Midsummer Night's Dream at the Cannes Film Festival in 1959. He exaggerated in many ways, as there were many differences between the two great artists. The least of which is that Disney focused his work on the children or family audience, while Trnka addressed most of his films to the adult audience. He arrived to the first post-war Cannes Festival in 1946 with his three cartoons (his filmmaking career had only begun on May 29, 1945, when a group of young animators asked the famous book illustrator to become their boss!) Despite the fact that his fairytale cartoon The Robbers and the Animalswon the festival, another film that was entered, The Present,was of more importance to Trnka's work. The Present(written by J. Brdecka) was a cartoon for adults -- a satire with Trnka's very own individual art design and a non-Disney way of storytelling. This film was completely misunderstood until Stephen Bosustow congratulated Trnka on it three years later. If you compare The Presentwith UPA's productions you know why! It was a visible step that divided post-war animation into two groups: the productions of big studios (classics) and films that were modern expressions, created in form and content by strong, individual personalities.
Auteur : TheMotionBrigades
Tags:jiri trnka cybernetic grandma kratky film archangel praha czech stop motion gabriel svankmajer klimt fimfarum quay
| | The Cybernetic Grandma : by Jiri Trnka : PART 2/3 - 584 sec
Part two of "The Cybernetic Grandma" Made in 1962 by Jiri Trnka.
Jiří Trnka (24 February 1912, Plzeň - 30 December 1969, Prague) was a Czech puppet maker, illustrator, motion-picture animator and film director, renowned for his stop motion puppet animations.
He graduated from the Prague School of Arts and Crafts. He created a puppet theater in 1936. This group was dissolved when World War II began, and he instead designed stage sets and illustrated books for children throughout the war.
After the end of the war, Trnka established an animation unit at the Prague film studio. Trnka soon became internationally recognized as the world's greatest puppet animator in the traditional Czech method, and he won several film festival awards. One animator called him "the Walt Disney of the East".
He won an award at the Cannes Festival in 1946, just one year after he began working in film. His films were mostly made for an adult audience. Beginning in 1948, the communist Czech government began to subsidize his work, although this did not seem to affect the message or style of his work. He also created animated cartoons. He wrote the scripts for most of his own films. He died of heart trouble in 1969.
Trnka's sci-fi "The Cybernetic Grandma" was a vision of the future in which machines and robots try to substitute themselves into the most beautiful human relationships. A cybernetic robot is supposed to substitute for the loving grandmother of a little girl. The wise grandmother, however, comes back and the girl finds the warmth of her grandmother's loving arms again.
Auteur : TheMotionBrigades
Tags:jiri trnka cybernetic grandma kratky film praha czech stop motion animation svankmajer klimt fimfarum quay
| | The Hand (1965) - Jiri Trnka - Part 2 - 536 sec
The Hand (1965) - Jiri Trnka - Part 2
Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xf5sakekBqI
Auteur : mfalavigna
Tags: The Hand Ruka Jirí Trnka czech short movie
| | Archangel Gabriel : by Jiri Trnka : PART 1 - 605 sec
Made in 1964, this is part one of Jiri Trnka's "Archangel Gabriel and Ms Goose"
A joyful puppet film based on a story from Boccaccio's Decameron. It is a story of a philandering monk and a beautiful but dull lady who surrenders only to archangel Gabriel. A story full of medieval humour which takes place in a bizarre atmosphere of medieval Venice. The puppets used in the picture are some of the most beautiful by Jiri Trnka.
Auteur : TheMotionBrigades
Tags:jiri trnka cybernetic grandma kratky film archangel praha czech stop motion gabriel svankmajer klimt fimfarum quay
| | Jiri Trnka - The Merry Circus - Part 2 - 309 sec
The second half of The Merry Circus, a beautiful cutout animation by Jiri Trnka
Auteur : stabbey
Tags:Jiri Trnka Merry Circus stop-motion animaiton paper cutouts awesome
| | Archangel Gabriel : by Jiri Trnka : PART 3 - 550 sec
Made in 1964, this is part three of Jiri Trnka's "Archangel Gabriel and Ms Goose"
A joyful puppet film based on a story from Boccaccio's Decameron. It is a story of a philandering monk and a beautiful but dull lady who surrenders only to archangel Gabriel. A story full of medieval humour which takes place in a bizarre atmosphere of medieval Venice. The puppets used in the picture are some of the most beautiful by Jiri Trnka.
Auteur : TheMotionBrigades
Tags:jiri trnka cybernetic grandma kratky film archangel praha czech stop motion gabriel svankmajer klimt fimfarum quay
| | Dva Mrazici : PART 2 : by Jiri Trnka and Bretislav Pojar - 348 sec
Part two of "Two Little Frosts". A puppet film based on a Slovakian Fairy tale. A pair of frosts make a bet on which of them will bite a farmer most severely." Directed by Jirí Trnka, 1953.
Auteur : TheMotionBrigades
Tags:jiri barta jan werich kratky film archangel two frosts praha czech stop motion gabriel svankmajer klimt fimfarum quay
| | Waxing Trnka - 264 sec
way too funny
Auteur : tklaproductions
Tags: waxing trnka
| | Trnka - 113 sec
bse
Auteur : alanflorit
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| | Muj Den - Matyas trnka - 197 sec
Kratky animovany film pro VOSVH
Auteur : drevonos
Tags: muj den vosvh matyas trnka
| | The Cybernetic Grandma : by Jiri Trnka : PART 3/3 - 537 sec
Part three of "The Cybernetic Grandma" Made in 1962 by Jiri Trnka.
Jiří Trnka (24 February 1912, Plzeň - 30 December 1969, Prague) was a Czech puppet maker, illustrator, motion-picture animator and film director, renowned for his stop motion puppet animations.
He graduated from the Prague School of Arts and Crafts. He created a puppet theater in 1936. This group was dissolved when World War II began, and he instead designed stage sets and illustrated books for children throughout the war.
After the end of the war, Trnka established an animation unit at the Prague film studio. Trnka soon became internationally recognized as the world's greatest puppet animator in the traditional Czech method, and he won several film festival awards. One animator called him "the Walt Disney of the East".
He won an award at the Cannes Festival in 1946, just one year after he began working in film. His films were mostly made for an adult audience. Beginning in 1948, the communist Czech government began to subsidize his work, although this did not seem to affect the message or style of his work. He also created animated cartoons. He wrote the scripts for most of his own films. He died of heart trouble in 1969.
Trnka's sci-fi "The Cybernetic Grandma" was a vision of the future in which machines and robots try to substitute themselves into the most beautiful human relationships. A cybernetic robot is supposed to substitute for the loving grandmother of a little girl. The wise grandmother, however, comes back and the girl finds the warmth of her grandmother's loving arms again.
Auteur : TheMotionBrigades
Tags:jiri trnka cybernetic grandma kratky film praha czech stop motion animation svankmajer klimt fimfarum quay
| | Hymna - Ondřej Trnka Praha - 138 sec
Czech State song. Upload Kočičák. MŇÁU
Auteur : blackpantertube
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| | The Midsummer Nights Dream : by Jiri Trnka - 589 sec
The first puppet kinescope in the world. It is based on the famous poetic comedy by William Shakespeare. Three worlds meet in this story: the noble world of three Athens couples, a common popular world of tradesmen amateur theatre and a fairy-tale happiness of magic creatures as elves and nymphs. The film is considered the most remarkable Trnka's work and a milestone in the history of animation.
Awards: The highest prize of the technical committee - Cannes 1959, Honourable medal - Venice 1959, First prize for the best film - Bucharest 1960, Second prize - Montevideo 1960, First prize - "Golden Mercury" - for music - Valencia 1962
The celebrated Czech animator Jiri Trnka started work on a non‐verbal CinemaScope puppet version (Czechoslovakia, 1958). Shakespeare's dialogue was cut out completely, except for the occasional few words of plot explanation. In place of dialogue Trnka relied on visual richness and inventiveness to convey character. Puck, for example, shows his impish humour in the way he transforms himself into little animals from time to time; and Oberon's moods are implied by a succession of costume changes. A twist not found in Shakespeare is that in the final scene, when the artisans are performing their play before Theseus and the court, Puck uses magic to transform their acting from silly to sublime for a few brief moments.
Auteur : TheMotionBrigades
Tags:jiri trnka midsummer nights dream kratky film praha svankmajer servais lenica quay pospisilova karel zeman
| | Archangel Gabriel : by Jiri Trnka : PART 2 - 602 sec
Made in 1964, this is part two of Jiri Trnka's "Archangel Gabriel and Ms Goose"
A joyful puppet film based on a story from Boccaccio's Decameron. It is a story of a philandering monk and a beautiful but dull lady who surrenders only to archangel Gabriel. A story full of medieval humour which takes place in a bizarre atmosphere of medieval Venice. The puppets used in the picture are some of the most beautiful by Jiri Trnka.
Auteur : TheMotionBrigades
Tags:jiri trnka cybernetic grandma kratky film archangel praha czech stop motion gabriel svankmajer klimt fimfarum quay
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