Peludópolis was an 80-minute animated film by Argentine director Quirino Cristiani. Released in 1931, it was the first animated feature film with sound.
Unfortunately, all copies of the finished film were lost in a fire, so the film is best known from this making-of featurette. If you get this post by email, you might need to follow this link to YouTube to see the video.
The film was made by a novel paper cut-out process.
The characters and background elements were drawn with white paint on black paper. The paper cutouts were then laid out, and shot with a reversal process.
Peludópolis on Wikipedia
2 comments:
Interesting way of achieving the final line art. It´s a pitty the film is lost. Maybe some day it will be rediscovered on a dusty attic.
I mentioned Oliver Postgate's animation in an older comment. Some of it involved paper cutouts, and I'm reminded of it again; only this seems more sophisticated! Makes you wonder why they didn't go with established (I assume) transparent cels, and what might have been if this method took off.
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