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Oddball Films and curator Kat Shuchter bring you Stop-Motion Explosion!, a program of mind-blowing 16mm stop-motion animation from the 1930s to the 1990s. In a world saturated with CGI, Oddball Films opens the vaults to celebrate when historical, fantastical and anthropomorphic creatures were hand-sculpted and manipulated into “life.” This program features stop-motion heavy-hitters Ray Harryhausen, George Pal, Rankin/Bass, Art Clokey, Will Vinton, Jiri Trnka, Hermann and Ferdinand Diehl, and Eliot Noyes Jr., with tons of new finds and a few all-time favorites. Blast off with everybody's favorite green clay boy when Gumby and Pokey go in search of The Small Planets (1957). Claymation master and Oscar winner Will Vinton gives us the breathtaking tale of The Little Prince (1979). Puss in Boots (1940) is a gorgeous puppet animation by the Diehl brothers and funded with Nazi money. Oscar nominated Eliot Noyes Jr. creates a parable of gender equality with little clay creatures in The Fable of He and She (1974). The National Film Board of Canada and Pierre Trudeau sculpt paper into the puppet of a young boy tormented by his parents' bickering and lost in an imaginary world of clowns and robots in Enfantillage (1990). Special effects wizard Ray Harryhausen brings us a cheeky interpretation of Mother Goose Stories (1946). Pinocchio gets a shot at the Hollywood life in Rankin/Bass' Ring-A-Ding-Ding Pinocchio (1960). Czech visionary Jiri Trnka animated one boy's need to ever-increasing speed in Passion (1961). Plus, a 1958 Voting PSA with anthropomorphic donkey and elephant puppets, The Early Bird Gets the Worm (1930s) an amateur rarity, and a snippet of George Pal's Shoe Shine Jasper (1947). Come early to see when A Lunchroom Goes Bananas (1978). It's a night one million minute movements in the making! Date: Friday, October 21st, 2016 at 8:00 pm Venue: Oddball Films, 275 Capp Street San Francisco Admission: $10.00 Limited Seating RSVP to RSVP@oddballfilms.com or (415) 558-8117 Web: http://oddballfilms.blogspot.com Featuring: The Little Prince (Color, 1979) Claymation master Will Vinton takes on the ethereal tale of the intergalactic boy prince in a world entirely made from clay. Vinton coined the term Claymation and won an Academy Award for his short Closed Mondays (1974) and took claymation to new commercial heights with the California Raisins and the Dominos Noid before being edged out of his own company by his deep pocket investors. An Oddball premiere! Puss in Boots (1940, B+W, AKA Der gestiefelte Kater) A stop-motion puppet fairytale made in Nazi Germany by the Diehl Brothers. Gorgeous hand-crafted puppets tell the tale of a little cat who gets all fancied up to bring fame and fortune to his owner. The Diehl Brothers Hermann and Ferdinand (with the help of other brother Paul) ran Germany's most successful puppet animation studio from the 1920s-1970s and are best remembered for The Seven Ravens (1938). This rare and beautiful film was funded by the Ministry of Enlightenment and Propaganda and imported to the US in 1958 with added narration by Encyclopaedia Britannica after the fall of the Third Reich. An Oddball Premiere!