‹ Les Trois Inventeurs › excerpt - Complete film available English-subbed on DVD

A 1-minute sample of the 13-minute short film by Michel Ocelot, completed in 1979. The complete film, in a much clearer, more recent transfer and with English subtitles, is available on the French DVD 'Les Trésors cachés de Michel Ocelot,' which is region 2 and PAL and can be imported from online shops such as Fnac or the French Amazon. This sample was found at the production company's page http://www.aaaproduction.fr/aaa_filmCMA.php?CP_id=30

This is Ocelot's first proper film (his first professional work being the 'Gédéon' TV series broadcast in 1976) and it exhibits what I find most appealing about his art: since at least the 1960s, prettiness in animation has been associated with conformity, with the Disney tradition, while to be considered individualistic, one has to be grotesque, like Looney Tunes, Jan Švankmajer, Tim Burton and so on. Just because this tradition has always been the "other," less famous one, people don't recognise it as being a tradition just like the Disney one. Ocelot's films like 'Les Trois Inventeurs' and 'Azur et Asmar' are individual and alternative /because/ they are so pretty, not despite it. They belong to another tradition, much less prominent today, which includes Lotte Reiniger, Jiří Trnka, Be-PaPas and some of the staff surrounding 'Princess Tutu.'

For stills from other parts of the film, see http://www.awn.com/mag/issue1.11/articles/ballester.eng1.11.html http://www-viz.tamu.edu/faculty/ergun/teaching/motioncapture/project/ocelot.html and http://www.top-parents.fr/test/video-dvd-et-blu-ray-famille-enfants/les-treso...

'Les Trois Inventeurs' is © 1980 aaa production.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Animation
• clockpunk
• cut-out
• cutout
• difference
• engine
• doily
• doilies
• fairy
• tale
• hot
• air
• balloon
• lace
• Michel
• Ocelot
• paper
• silhouette
• steampunk

[inphanta]

That was amazing. The detail on that balloon was astounding. Please post a longer version.

[Turtleheart]

@inphanta This sample is just what aaa have provided on their Web site for years; I only uploaded it here to get it noticed more. If you like it you can buy the DVD (under £11 including delivery to the UK, a lot less than what I paid when it was a new release) which has this and many other films and making-ofs with full English subtitles and remastered so you'll be able to perceive much more detail on that balloon and everything else.

[fromShire]

ou on peu telecharger ce miracle??

[Turtleheart]

@fromShire Téléchargement Je ne sais pas, mais on peut acheter le DVD «Les Trésors cachés de Michel Ocelot » sur Amazon ou la Fnac. Il a ce film et de nombreux autres.

[MushroomMai]

How beautiful... the intricacy is amazing.

It's all made from paper? My that's fabulous. :)

Im a huge fan of Reiniger (she's one of my hero's)... and I think this animation has deffinately got to be right up there with her animations.

Beautiful<3

[Turtleheart]

@MushroomMai Paper and card, and the card characters were backed in places with metal as another commenter has already mentioned so that they adhered to the magnetic plate behind the background and didn't fall completely out of place so easily.

[marinaayra]

one of the most beautiful things I have ever seen

[sadunkal]

And now to think he also said that he used magnets and iron to animate this more efficiently. And that he glued tiny amounts of iron to the papers if I remember correctly...

[MultiFRM]

Excellente animation!

[DianaPaez713]

@marinaayra

seriously.

[nevermint1]

to barbarzyństwo, oglądać TAKIE wspaniałości w tak słabej rozdzielczości..

[MediaFilter]

Wow I love the way he rows with the wings!

[syleriam]

Thank you very much for posting this, it's just amazing and extremely beautiful

[pyraflame]

so precious!