| 词条 | Draft:Paul's Animatograph Works |
| 释义 |
The Paul’s Animatograph Works was the cinematographic studio and the production company of Robert W. Paul, located in Muswell Hill in north London. It produced and sold all over the world such splendid fantasies as The Magic Sword (1901), An Extraordinary Cab Accident (1903) or The ? Motorist (1906). Most of them were collaborations between R.W. Paul, who was an enthusiast inventor for using the latest technology to experiment with film, and Walter R. Booth, who was a stage magician and illusionist.[1] Trick filmsBetween 1899 and 1906, Paul's Animatograph Works made 'trick films', which were short films that used special effects. Some of these effects were quite innovative despite the limited technology of the time. They might resemble to the work of Georges Méliès, even having pioneered some of the effects that Méliès would make his own years later. The earliest film of the tandem Paul-Booth is Upside Down, or The Human Flies (1899), which reverses both the set and the camera halfway to create the impression that its characters are walking on the ceiling. This same technique was also used 70 years later in Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey due to its effectiveness. Later on in 1901, their “trick films” reached the peak of their ambition, playing with blending jump-cuts and stop-motion animation used in the same sequence. An example of that is Undressing Extraordinary (1901), which with a single shot, the performer goes through costumes changes by stopping and starting filming dozens of times. That is why the performer had to perfectly know his position from take to take so that the movements didn’t seem to be changed. Similar jump-cut techniques appear in The Waif and the Wizard (1901), which had transitions from scene to scene as well by incorporating a spinning umbrella. At the same time, they experimented with superimposition, such as in Cheese Mites (1901) where two images are printed alongside, or whereas plays with the scales, so that a restaurant diner sees a family of tiny people emerging from a piece of cheese. Another example is The Countryman and the Cinematograph (1901), printing the two images at the perfect time. But techniques even more complex than these ones can be seen in The Haunted Curiosity Shop (1901), which disguises multiple shots by making jump-cuts, superimpositions and other optical trickeries. Or whereas Artistic Creation (1901), as it shows an artist's painting of a woman coming to life. But their most ambitious project was The Magic Sword (1901), which was told in multiple scenes showing a great amount of Paul’s and Booth’s camera trickery, for instance emerging giant ogres or witches taking off on broomsticks. Another example is Is Spiritualism A Fraud? (1906), which tries to integrate the trickery into a story by creating an illusion. Nevertheless, The '?' Motorist (1906) is considered to be Paul and Booth’s masterpiece, in which a speeding motorist escapes from a policeman and round the rings of Saturn before returning to Earth. Paul and Booth continued to collaborate for the next five years, though seemingly without the same level of experimentation. Surviving filmography
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