Word: edelmann
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
YELLOW SUBMARINE is an elaborate cartoon adventure starring the Beatles in animated form. Although Animator Heinz Edelmann brings off a series of visual puns, the overall result tends to drag at times...
YELLOW SUBMARINE is an eclectically animated voyage to Pepperland, starring four cartoon Beatles. The score is mostly familiar, and the film decidedly too long, but Animator Heinz Edelmann works a few droll visual puns and some distracting graphic legerdemain...
YELLOW SUBMARINE is an eclectically animated voyage to Pepperland starring four cartoon Beatles. The score is mostly familiar, and the film decidedly too long, but Animator Heinz Edelmann works a few droll visual puns and some distracting graphic legerdemain...
...Edelmann took considerable trouble with his principal characters-studying the Beatles' film, A Hard Day's Night, to get their characteristic walks, and watching an old newsreel of Hitler as a model for some of the movements of the Chief Blue Meanie. Edelmann's out right inventions came from everywhere -including the unconscious. He thinks he may have got the idea of the shark-stomached Snapping Turtle Turks because of a Turk he knew who once forced an indigestible Turkish meal on him. He considers the Flying Glove an apt symbol of evil, since "gloves are worn...
...certainly cannot be hung on a wall or stood in an alcove. But it is gay, handsome, inventive, and it is at least as much fun to look at as most of the work in contemporary galleries. As for its authors, they are inspired by their own success. Edelmann is now thinking about animating J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings trilogy, with its enchanted landscapes, gnomes and elves. "Animation is an extension of painting, because it adds the element of time," he says. "The future of animation is as limitless as the imagination...