Some painstaking work must have gone into putting this film together. Still, it winds up having a very playful air. And while you can't see any live human person, there's a feeling of someone being there, someone playing the music. The magic of stop-motion animation.
Made by Carmen D'Avino, who discovered filmmaking as a teenager in the Depression and was a painter as well.
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It's a very impressive little film that looks as if it could have taken years to put together. The wikipedia description of Carmen D'Avino's life and experience is somewhat astonishing - from trading an old rifle for his first movie camera to art school in New York then an assignment as a combat photographer in ww2 where he filmed the Normandy Invasion and the Liberation of Paris. He stayed in Paris, studied art under the GI Bill, met his wife and accompanied her to India where she was the tutor for the son of the French ambassador. Meanwhile, being no slouch, D'Avino continued to work there - that's where the amazing pallette shown in this film originated. It just goes on from there.
Very nice find and extremely entertaining. I'm still smiling.
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