April 8, 2008
Cute Boy Gets A Haircut In Stopmotion
Back before everyone had computers and video cameras, creative film students used techniques of stop motion animation with 16mm film. My generation of film students grew up with Ray Harryhausen monster movies from the 1950's and introduced the psychedelic technique of "claymation" to stoner teens smoking pot or dropping acid in the 1970's.
I even remember being in grade school and watching alot of movies provided by the Film Board of Canada that used a lot of stop motion. (why don't we have a Film Board like that in the States?) One in particular was called Neighbours from 1952. In it, two neighbors fought over a flower and one gets killed in the end. (And they showed it to us in grade school...) Dan Aykroyd (Canadian) and John Belushi apparently grew up with it, too, because the re-created the same movie into a full length feature. ("Neighbors" 1981 was Belushi's last movie.)
This little video was done much the same way the original "Neighbours" was done, but with modern video equipment. And did I mention two cute guys, too?
Posted by lavenderlounge at 12:03 PM
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