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Mask of the Red Death (1969 film)
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Wikipedia article
'Mask of the Red Death' is a 1969 animated short film by Pavao talter (also main animator and main artist) and Branko Ranitovi for Zagreb Film. It is an adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's The Masque of the Red Death.
Development
The short film is notable for its use of texturized animation, which is difficult to execute convincingly. The authors themselves describe it as a mix of collage technique and "animated paintings".[https://books.google.hr/books?id=G5dQAAAAMAAJ&q=masque+of+the+red+death+stalter&dq=masque+of+the+red+death+stalter&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjVt4yJ-ObtAhUP6qQKHex9BiYQ6AEwCXoECAkQAg Art in Movement: New Directions in John Halas, Roger Manvell, Hastings House, 1970], pp. 176 The movie was two years in production.[https://books.google.hr/books?id=5aEsAAAAMAAJ&q=mask+of+the+red+death+stalter&dq=mask+of+the+red+death+stalter&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjoyOnHgeftAhVO2aQKHXbnATk4FBDoATADegQIARAC Journal of the University Film Association University Film Association, 1970], pp. 48; '"and animator Pavlao Stalter , whose masterpiece Masque of the Red Death was two years in production , attended the Chicago fete and then began a film screening lecture tour of various American universities."'
Reception
Film critic and historian Giannalberto Bendazzi cited it as an example of a movie which would make people genuinely afraid. He praised the painting abilities of talter and described the movie as the one which invokes both admiration and disturbance.[https://books.google.hr/books?id=_0-fDwAAQBAJ&pg=PP42&dq=masque+of+the+red+death+stalter&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjVt4yJ-ObtAhUP6qQKHex9BiYQ6AEwAHoECAMQAg#v=onepage&q=masque%20of%20the%20red%20death%20stalter&f=false Adaptation for Animation: Transforming Literature Frame by Frame, By Hannes Ral] Some cite it as a potential influence for Terry Gilliam's Monty Python and the Holy Grail, specifically the plague ridden landscape.[https://books.google.hr/books?id=DX0xBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA77&dq=masque+of+the+red+death+stalter&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjVt4yJ-ObtAhUP6qQKHex9BiYQ6AEwAXoECAYQAg#v=onepage&q=masque%20of%20the%20red%20death%20stalter&f=false A Book about the Film Monty Python and the Holy Grail: All the References ..., By Darl Larsen], pp. 77 Film critic Ralph Stephenson described it as "perhaps the most impressive translation of Poe's ghostly world into the cartoon medium".[https://books.google.hr/books?id=DJ1QAAAAMAAJ&q=mask+of+the+red+death+stalter&dq=mask+of+the+red+death+stalter&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjS8a6xgOftAhVJPuwKHVT-BUs4ChDoATAEegQIBBAC The Animated Film, Ralph Stephenson, Tantivy Press, 1973 ]
Due to its innovations in the use of background by mixing painting textures, collage and drawings,[https://books.google.hr/books?id=n40YAAAAIAAJ&q=mask+of+the+red+death+stalter&dq=mask+of+the+red+death+stalter&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjoyOnHgeftAhVO2aQKHXbnATk4FBDoATAAegQIAhAC David Sohn's Film Notes on Selected Short Films, David A. Sohn, Pflaum, 1975], pp. 65 it was included in the anthology 'Art in Movement'. It is regarded as among 10 best Croatian animated short films by Croatian film critics.
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