A skeleton dances so joyously and frantically that he -- she? not being a forensic anatomist, I can't be sure -- comes apart and reassembles in this Lumiere trick film.
It's a pretty good trick film and I am not quite sure of how they managed this particular short subject. At first I thought it was a marionette, but when the skeleton falls to pieces and the individual bones start to dance, it seems unlikely -- it would require a team of puppeteers. Stop motion? It might be armature work given the black background, but given the motion that seems unlikely. So that uncertainty makes the film even more interesting.
It's a pretty good trick film and I am not quite sure of how they managed this particular short subject. At first I thought it was a marionette, but when the skeleton falls to pieces and the individual bones start to dance, it seems unlikely -- it would require a team of puppeteers. Stop motion? It might be armature work given the black background, but given the motion that seems unlikely. So that uncertainty makes the film even more interesting.