1959 JIRI TRNKA created his ultimate masterpiece, after the shakespeare comedy – A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM. the puppet animation feature film is in cinemascope and 88 min long. as you can judge yourself in the following images it is the top of his life work, he visualized the pretty complicated story and designed all the characters. the animation as well as the design of a greek inspired phantasy world is beautiful, the wide format used well. in a later post I have some more images…
© KRATKY film praha + jiri trnka
my name is hans bacher, – I work as production designer in the animation film industry. for the last 40 years I lived and worked in duesseldorf, london, paris, los angeles, manila and tokyo. now I am professor for film-design at the nanyang techn. university in singapore.
I saw it on tv when I was little and I found it difficult.
“Prince Bayaya” was easier to follow and is beautiful as well.
Thanks for posting interesting and beautiful things.I follow Your blog every day.
Hi Hans,
Do you know Where can I get a print of MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM?
hi nancy, I don’t like utube, the quality is miserable. the quality of my tape ist much better.
will send you the images. you can get all jiri trnka’s films in japan -
GEREON NEW ANIMATION ANIMATION ( NAA ), the series is called
jiri trnka film works. very expensive