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The Four Poster (1952 film)
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'The Four Poster' is a 1952 American comedy-drama film directed by Irving Reis and starring Rex Harrison and Lilli Palmer.Bock & Bergfelder p.356 It is an adaptation of Jan de Hartog's 1951 play 'The Fourposter'.
While it is a live-action film, 'The Four Poster' features animation by the studio United Productions of America (UPA). The animation was directed by John Hubley, and was his last project before leaving UPA and founding his independent studio Storyboard, Inc.
In Yugoslavia, 'The Four Poster's animation became one of the key influences on the foundation of the Zagreb School of Animated Films. Director Duan Vukoti had come across an article about UPA's films in 'Graphis' at an English bookstore in Zagreb. Around the same time, 'The Four Poster' arrived in the country in "a batch of American feature films sent for possible sale to Yugoslavia", according to researcher Ronald Holloway. Vukoti and others studied the film's animation, which also gave them a greater understanding of the still images in 'Graphis'. As a result, the team began to explore design-focused limited animation at Zagreb Film.
Plot
Cast
* Rex Harrison as John Edwards
* Lilli Palmer as Abby Edwards
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'Bibliography'
* Bock, Hans-Michael & Bergfelder, Tim. 'The Concise CineGraph. Encyclopedia of German Cinema'. Berghahn Books, 2009.
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