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Comment on Picture of the Week #62: The Diehl Puppets by albert Maly-Motta
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Sun, 22 Dec 2019 20:53:41 +0000
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Hello-
It is most interesting to see images of the Diehl Brothers puppets. He had a studio in Gräfelfing next to Munich, and as a young puppeteer I visited Ferdinand Diehl at home and at the studio which had been turned into a photo studio for postcard production.
He showed me the replacement system for the faces and some experiments he had done with jointed armatures. He had used wire armatures for most of his work since he considered ball & socket joints too heavy and too complicated.
He did not use any pointers or surface gauges which might account for the sometimes less than smooth animation in his movies. I also believe they were all shot on twos.
He also told me that he had lost most of the negatives of his older films. they were nitrate and he was forbidden to store them near his home because of the fire hazard. No money to make new negatives and so he threw all the rolls into a lake near Munich.
He is a tragic figure in film history. His work is mostly forgotten now, and yet he was a true pioneer only to be compared to Starevitch.
His animation skills can be seen on YouTube in the strange post war film “marionettes”.
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Tue, 03 Sep 2019 16:28:15 +0000
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amazing.
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Comment on 1966KleinQuitesvousPollyMagoo by alec
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Tue, 03 Sep 2019 16:27:16 +0000
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Comment on 1969-Mocky_Solo by alec
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Tue, 03 Sep 2019 16:25:25 +0000
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exelent.
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It is most interesting to see images of the Diehl Brothers puppets. He had a studio in Gräfelfing next to Munich, and as a young puppeteer I visited Ferdinand Diehl at home and at the studio which had been turned into a photo studio for postcard production.
He showed me the replacement system for the faces and some experiments he had done with jointed armatures. He had used wire armatures for most of his work since he considered ball & socket joints too heavy and too complicated.
He did not use any pointers or surface gauges which might account for the sometimes less than smooth animation in his movies. I also believe they were all shot on twos.
He also told me that he had lost most of the negatives of his older films. they were nitrate and he was forbidden to store them near his home because of the fire hazard. No money to make new negatives and so he threw all the rolls into a lake near Munich.
He is a tragic figure in film history. His work is mostly forgotten now, and yet he was a true pioneer only to be compared to Starevitch.
His animation skills can be seen on YouTube in the strange post war film “marionettes”.
This is a mixture of stopmotion and marionettes. the marionettes were from the Munich Marionette theater and were sculpted by Walter Oberholzer. The narrator is stop motion and bears a striking resemblance to the actor Hans Clarin who did his voice. The film warns against political seducers and loudmouths like Mussolini and Hitler and it has more actuality now than ever in the age of Trump and Johnson.
Please show us some more of the Diehl puppets if possible!
Albert Maly-Motta
Director
Bad toelz marionette theater
Germany