Book Illustrations 2: Trnka
... death & the emperor, from "The Nightingale"Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tales / by H. C. Anderson; illustrated by Jiri Trnka London : Spring Books, 1961
(This one figures in a book I copped as a long-ago b-day present from my Grandfather)
... Titania! A character sketch, for Trnka's stop-motion adaptation of:
A Midsummer Night's Dream / William Shakespeare ; with pictures from the film by Jiri Trnka Praha : Artia, 1960
A sad story: I bought a 16mm print of this one - technicolour, and in wide-screen scope - at a deceased estate auction for $21. I delegated some friends to collect it (the auction was interstate, you understand) & they grabbed the wrong reels - a Russian ballet film of the same title.
Stills can be found at the Kratky Film website...
... and some clips can be found on this site, and at youtube.Labels: animation, czech cinema, jiri trnka, library, old books
posted by jim knox at 8/16/2007 11:17:00 pm
1 Comments:
hi i was looking for jiri trnka's illustrations on the internet. I'm so glad to have found some links on your blog. I have a book which has some more of his stuff. which I will upload on my blog. and if you're interested please have a look. and do forward any other interesting information about him. cheers!
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