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Commercial from 1938 for the new Philips Symphonic Series radios.  Directed by George Pál who also directed the 1960 version of The Time Machine, among other features you may recognize.   The Philips Broadcast features Sam Browne and Evelyn Dall with Bert Ambrose’s orchestra.

I can imagine this being something the old LTV would play during the intro sequence or as an incidental bit of animation that doesn’t play all the way through.  But I have to give props to the creators of this stop motion piece because it’s hard enough to imagine the things Nick Park and Tim Burton and those guys do these days, but  to do fairly fluid stop motion without the aid of all the fancy tools we have today (computers and I’m sure there’ve been some non-computer gadgets invented since 1938 to aid im stop motion production).. this has to be the equivalent of a 5 minute long Superbowl commercial in 1938 standards.  Enjoy this blast from the far past.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUrqrbk1aeg

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUrqrbk1aeg[/youtube]

BTW: Thanks to YouTube commentor “raymond18” for introducing me to a new animation term: puppetoon invented/pioneered by George Pál.  Essentially, stop motion using rigid figures, not posable ones.

More information at IMDB’s page, NNDB’s page and GeorgePal.com.

Tags: 1938, Bert Ambrose, commercial, Evelyn Dall, french, George Pál, György Marincsák, Julius György Märczincsák, philips, puppetoon, radio, Sam Browne, stop motion

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