Elf with 16 Faces created by George Pal for Animation
name: label: maker; producer
content: Pal, George
label: user
content: Walter Lantz Productions
label: maker
content: Pal, George
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This elf puppet without a face was created by George Pal and used in early animation. Elf costume is red and brown. There is an accompanying wooden box contains 16 faces, two eyes, and one pair of hands.
label: Description (Brief)
content: George Pal was one of the pioneers of stop-frame puppet animation, a painstaking process achieved by moving figures and shooting each change on a single frame of motion picture film in a series of progressive steps. At each frame shot, the head, arms, and legs of a character were changed according to the motions needed. This creates the illusion of fluid motion when the film is viewed at normal speed. Pal was also the first producer-director to combine animated puppets with human actors.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Pal was contracted by Paramount Studios in 1940 to produce a series of short-subject puppet cartoons which he had created in Europe, called Puppetoons. The Puppetoons adressed a wide variety of subject matters, such as fairy tales and jazz themes. George Pal was also popular for his work in feature films and had won eight Academy Awards.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: California, Los Angeles
topic: label: general subject association
content: Motion Pictures
label: Subject
content: Animation
label: Subject
content: Puppetry
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content: Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
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content: Movie Collection
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Elisabeth Pal
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1983.0361.11
label: accession number
content: 1983.0361
label: catalog number
content: 1983.0361.11
objectType: label: Object Name
content: figure set, animation (22) w/ box
label: Object Name
content: puppet
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content: rubber (overall material)
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content: vinyl (overall material)
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content: fabric (overall material)
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content: wood (overall material)
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content: wax (overall material)