This experiment was a “prestige advertisement” for Shell Motor Oil. As conventional animation became dominated by Walt Disney, many European filmmakers turned to puppets as an alternative, and Lye enlisted the help of avant-garde friends such as Humphrey Jennings and John Banting to make the amusing puppets. Exploring the still-complex color process, which involved the combination of three separate images, Lye creates such a vivid storm scene that reviewers hailed it as “proof that the color film has entered a new stage.” The music is Holst’s The Planets. - Harvard Film Archive
Genre: Animation
Stars:
Crew: Humphrey Jennings (Color Designer), Len Lye (Director), C.H. David (Writer)
Country: United Kingdom
Language: No Language
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Runtime: 6 minutes
Quality: HD
Released: Oct 01, 1936
IMDb: 4.2
