The Devils Ball (1933)
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- Опубліковано 4 жов 2024
- I present the 1933 surrealist film by Ladislaw Starewicz (1892-1965) titled The Devil's Ball, transferred from my very own 16mm print using my Eiki Telecine. The Eiki has a special diffusion plate that eliminates the 'hot spot' of the projector, and the spooky sound is pulled right from the optical track. I have traditionally shown this film at Halloween with friends, and now I present it to all of you on those there UA-cams. Enjoy! Muuoooaha-ha-ha!!! 😵
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Wow the animators at Disney who did the “Night on Bald Mountain” sequence in Fantasia clearly drew some inspiration from this
I think a lot of animators drew some inspiration from this. Super cool!
Thanks, Fran!
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From what I found out about Starewicz, he was, in fact, offered a chance by Disney Studios to come and work for them, but he actually turned them down because he wanted to stay independent, and maintain control over his work. I think it took him about at least a year or two to film The Mascot---it's still pretty amazing to watch, even decades later.
I get the feeling Tim Burton may have seen this at some time. Reeallly great, thanks and happy hallows Fran.
It definitely has a Burtonesque look to it, especially some of the characters, that's for sure
Leave it to Fran for the truly fascinating, amusing and timely posts!
I would love to be able to see the reaction it got from the crowd back in 1933
I first saw an excerpt of this on Night Flight on the USA Channel back in the 80's but it wasn't until decades later when I got the opportunity to see it in its entirety. I wish I could have seen this as a kid; I would have loved it. No matter how advanced computer animation gets it will never be better than this old stop motion animation. It's the flaws that give it an otherworldly quality.
Masterful and wonderfully bizarre & playful - this artist (and his team) probably was a workaholic - the depth of commitment, the sheer time required to complete this, is amazing.
Note to others: don't watch this after drinking a bunch of Nyquil, then go to sleep. You'll be questioning your sanity for days.
That said, this is probably one of the greatest, if not interesting, stop-motion efforts I've ever seen!
LOL ! True !!
Now I’ll be able to say I watched The Devil’s Balls with Fran Blanche on Halloween. Sadly that’s the high point of my day lol
I think it deserves a Danny Elfman soundtrack
Someone needs to edit it with one now!!!!!!!
also sequences of dialogue - a soundscape - voices actors
We are honoured, lovely film, thank you for taking the time to process it and share.
Best regards John, from the UK.
This film is part of a somewhat longer Starewicz film entitled "Mascot", which I purchased on DVD collection entitled "The Camerman's Revenge & Other Fantastic Tales", which includes that and other Starewicz works. Still cool that you have this excerpt on actual motion picture film, though.
Thanks! That dvd collective title very much rings a bell; gotta go dig thru my too many dvd’s to see if i already have that collection, as that title sounds VERY familiar! Big B&W classic horror film fan here
The song he plays for the lady at 9:50 is “Plaisir d’amour” for anyone who may be wondering. It’s a really beautiful piece of music.
Plaisir d'amour ne dure qu'on moment
(The joys of love are but a moment long)
Chagrin d'amour dure toute la vie
(The pain of love endures the whole life long)
I had to look up if Elvis' "Can't Help Falling in Love" was from an older tune. Turns out is is. :)
Oh the nightmares we shall haveth this evening.
Hyper cool, thank you for sharing this, Fran!
Thanks for this great reminder that edginess has always existed. The people of that era were anything but tame or innocent. Hieronymus Bosch, Jean Cocteau, and now meet Ladislaw Starewicz! Whoever made this pathos laden horror must be interesting.
In an era before the instant playback of digital cameras, managing that many stop motion models must have been an amazing challenge. I suspect they hand animated the whole thing and used each frame as an overlay on the camera's viewfinder to keep track of everything that is moving so they all stay in sync.
And shout out to the dude who I presume is in an open relationship with the lady getting fresh with the monkey. He likes to watch and the Devil tries to stoke his jealousy so the guy just stabs him in the most casual manner possible. He doesn't even look back. I'm not sure what's with the coin though, looks like some pretty hard D/S or proto vore play.
Sometime around 1988-1990 I saw this film by accident on USA up all night after a normal NYC Saturday night. Luckily there was a vhs tape in the machine ready to go. So we taped it and showed it to everyone we knew. Thanks for this. I adore this film. It's so hard to do such good stop-motion animation, esp. back then with the huge lights you needed and all.
Hah - I'm playing for a Halloween party tomorrow evening and one of the tunes on the set is "At The Devil's Ball", a song by Irving Berlin from 1913!
Surprisingly well done and the mind boggles as to how and where this would have been viewed back in the day! It occurred to me that Metropolis was shot only 4 years earlier, relying on stop motion too. I was initially expecting a piece on the notorious Demon Core!
Metropolis was awesome.
@@aural_escape Next to look at is Things To Come, 1936, I believe.
@@aural_escape I stand corrected! I just read that previously missing footage of Metropolis was found and a longer version released. The only version I saw was the one with Moroder’s soundtrack - it would be interesting to see the the original cut.
@@dennisg4196 Yeah! Loved that movie - helluva cast, too.
Some of the sceens are complex, this must have ages to film.
Thanks for sharing this gem.
This is insanely good! Some very talented artists worked on this.
Way cool edgy stop motion! And an excellent conversion, too! Keep us guessing as always. Thanks! Stu
Amazingly sophisticated animation, especially for that era.
That was amazing. Thanks very much Fran
1:12🤣 I don't know why that was so funny
Truly terrifying Fran, 1933 the devils ball, Monsieur Starewicz seen it all, and recorded it frame by frame. Thankyou for sharing this
CGI could Never Recreate the macabre and touchable, 3-dimensional appeal this has. And this was done painstakingly by hand! Stop motion animators still use these same techniques, albeit the camera technology and associated technologies have improved drastically
Classic Video..Good Find for Halloween ....
Amazing Fran! Thanks for converting and sharing that mix of art, technology and creativity!! That is COOL!
Thank you for making sure this doesn't get lost. Neat little film.
The same year as King Kong! Funny to think Ray Harryhausen would be a teenager when all this was hitting cinemas.
Thank you, Fran.
Enjoyed very much, Thanks!
Special effects are Amazing for 1933
Anyone who doesn't like stop motion has terrible taste.
Thank you for sharing. So nice.
This is the oldest stop motion I have ever seen. I'm amazed they were able to create this with 1933's technology. Very clever.
There are older ones. Starevicz made REVENGE OF THE KINOMATIC CAMERAMAN in 1912. And Emile Cohl made THE AUTOMATIC MOVING COMPANY in 1910.
@@RayPointerChannel Interesting.
They created King Kong with stop-motion around the same time!
I just love that stop-motion animation. Only some rotoscope could have made it any better (at the time).
Some of it looked smooth enough to be 'scoped, like the closeup when the short paper characters were walking up the stairs and between the taller creatures' legs. But yes, most of it did have that stop and start motion to it. And that adds to its character.
Kudos Fran for sharing this with us!
Rotoscope can only be used with drawn animation as a whole, although following live action reference footage and matching the positioning is possible. But for the most part, this was not done. Stop Motion is far more intricate in that the positioning has to be realized in sequence. It is the degree of incremental spacing for each exposure combined with the planed timing of the actions that produces the illusion of smooth action.
A lot of stop animation from this period was very sinister and creepy. This one is right up there with some of the more twisted ones.
Thanks for sharing.
“ Almost 90 years later and there is almost no blood, sweat & tears left in artistic creativity in Hollywood.”
I wonder if they used some puppets as well as stop motion, I'm sure some things had motion blur on them
Kind of, but it was all shot single frame. The paper demons zooming around at the start were in motion during the slow frame exposure. The motion created separately for each frame is why the movement seems so erratic, but it really works well in this context. The technique might have been suggested by the very slow film of the time, which would have required slow shutter speeds.
What a delightful and charming old animation. So great to see stuff like this being preserved for future generations. I love old stop-motion films but this was a new one to me, so huge thanks Fran for showing this :)
6:48 I swear the devil's ear wiggle there seemed adorable to me, forgive me for saying this but I honestly found that cute
WOW!!! Thank you!
Amazing CGI!
Wow I never knew who this was!
I had a VHS tape with a bunch of trippy stuff on it. Mostly recorded off of Night Flight and New Wave Theater.
This was one of many things that was missing any kind of credits because it was taped after it started. And the program material following taped over the last few seconds of the animation. As was my habit at the time to keep a stable picture.
My high school and college friends spent many nights high or drunk watching such video tapes.
You are a STAR Fran, I swear, this has made my day Lady!! Even though technically I'm celebrating Beltane! Yes there is the other side of the planet. x
Hope your celebrations were blessed with better weather than our VERY wet & windy Samhain festivities here in the UK :)
Thank you for sharing this, Fran!
That is a lot of animation work in 1933 - fantastic. I didn't know optical sound had arrived by then either. Very good Fran - thanks for transferring it and showing to us !
1928
Egads! Imma have nightmares now! I think it was fun and marvelous!
Excellent !
Brilliant! 👏
i dont know where or how you found this absolute treasure, but thank you fran. now to re-watch it with a projector on the wall of an abanndoned building.
Sounds like the old Hal Roach soundtrack music of the time period. Laurel and Hardy and Our gang comedies...
That was a lot of time spent on stop motion animation frames when you think about, what an imagination someone had, a nice treat, thank you for presenting that Fran!
Fantastic.
Wow.....just wow.
Great stuff Fran.
Thank you for sharing this !
Thanks , that was great!
I saw this decades ago very late at night (not sober) when cable was in its infancy. I always wondered about it. Thanks for the presentation.
Night Flight! I never missed a show.
This is simply AWESOME. Thanks Fran :)
I love watching on UA-cam the things we had time to create because we didn't have UA-cam to distract us.
I love voice and tone of the laughter. The rest of it is just trippy cool !👍
Imagine how long this took to make.
Wow, thanks Fran!. Awesome find and just in time lol. I not 100% sure, but in 1933 the films had no sound and each theater had an orchestra pit. Fascinating.
We've come a long ways in 88 years!
The old Central European themes are still so compelling. Perhaps there is a Krampus in the woods still? Thank you for sharing this.
That's wild. Clearly based on a lot of old paintings.
very, very happy voltaire mentioned this film at pensacon. i can see why it affected him and his work so greatly. a 3 minute segment of this originally aired on a block of tv called Fright Night in 1980 for those wondering! i wonder if anyone else has come to see this because of voltaire
WOW! That was disturbing and SO COOL at the same time. Loved it!
Reminded me a bit of Tool and Zappa
what a lovely treat, fran!
This is rad.
Thank you very much¡¡ I havent seen this anywhere, saludos y de nuevo gracias
I am watching this Halloween night and to paraphrase Orson (incidentally five years later), this is Fran's own internet version of dressing up in a sheet and jumping out of a bush and and saying Boo! Well done and thank you for sharing with us.
Thank you for sharing this, Fran. What a gem of a film. Brilliant.
thanks for the treat.
I should dub a TOOL song to this. Runtime just right for Fear Innoculum.
Ahem, check out the Brothers Quay…
Amazing cartoon ......i believe they're model of figures they shot this frame by frame ......24 frames a second .....
Thanks, Fran. You're the best!
Wild..
That Devil's laugh is crazy!
Got him stabbed too.
I never thought that I would find an opportunity to use the phrase "tumescent proboscis."
This looks as good as a 1960s stop motion, wow
Reminds me of the three inaugural balls during the evening of January 20, 2017
Thanks for this. Be well. How cool.
I bet Ray Harryhausen watched this.
Happy Halloween!
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My eyes! What the hell was that!!?? Definitely having nightmares tonight!
reminds me of that crazy Cuphead game. And it's just as creepy haha!
I saw this on a Weird Cartoons video cassette back in late 80s. Great to see it again! Hail Satan!
Well, I haven't seen that in a while.
uuhhhh... 😲 Without CG - awesome!! 🎃👍👍
I may have seen snippets of this during *Night Flight* in the 1980s.
A cool bit of stop motion..The Nightmare Before The Nightmare Before Christmas?
Thank you, Fran!
Scary!!!! ***gigglesnorts***
That's wonderful, thanks for sharing
This is so creepy... But I love it!
Thanks so much for sharing Fran!!!
Wow I never saw this before!
Very creepy.....I LOVE IT
THANKS, FRAN & HAPPY HALLOWEEN...IT WAS CERTAINLY A TREAT!👹👻💀
Wow, that was a find. Thank you for sharing it.
Absolutely fantastic a joy to watch.
This new Tool video is AWESOME!
Very strange, really enjoyed it.
muchas arigato fran!