Joe Alterio’s blog on illustration, comix, design, animation, and other bouts of total awesomeness.
Starewicz’ “The Mascot”
What a looker!
This amazing film is the 1933 animated film by Ladislas Starewicz, his opus, entited The Mascot. Perhaps best known for his 1912 film The Cameraman’s Revenge, The Mascot seems astoundingly unknown for the quality of work contained; if not an aficianado, at least I consider myself well-versed in early 20th century animation, and I had never seen it until a day ago. Regardless, it’s wonderful, and is evocative of the time when animation and narrative was created not with perfect CGI, but with whatever worked in a pinch – even trash. Judging from the rocky economic times ahead for all of us, we’d do well to take the lesson that one doesn’t need much to make amazing art.
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