Summary

INSPIRATION (INSPIRACE)

Source Archive Films by Getty Images
Title: INSPIRATION (INSPIRACE)
File Number: AFP-135AQ 16mm (Beginning of film missing.)
Color: B W
Type: Educational
Year: 1949
Description: B W 1949 A fragment of a beautiful animated puppet film bu the great Czech animator Karel Zeman. The camera zooms in on a drop of dew on a leaf, and reveals a fantasy universe within. The characters look like glass figurines everything is translucent and delicate-looking. Fish swim among water plants bubbles rise to the surface and metamorphose into a figure skater, who glides around among icicles and swans a dandelion seed turns into another ice skater three horses pull a chariot across the ice. At the end it is all revealed to be a fantasy of a man looking out a window on a rainy day.
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