Le Petit Cirque et autres contes
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Le Petit Cirque et autres contes (The Little Circus and Other Tales) is a 1994
French
package film. It is 50 minutes long and contains the following seven short films for young children and their families from the Folimage
studio:
1994 in film
1994 was a significant year in film.The top grosser worldwide was The Lion King, which to date stands as the highest-grossing traditionally-animated film of all time...
French
Cinema of France
The Cinema of France comprises the art of film and creative movies made within the nation of France or by French filmmakers abroad.France is the birthplace of cinema and was responsible for many of its early significant contributions. Several important cinematic movements, including the Nouvelle...
package film. It is 50 minutes long and contains the following seven short films for young children and their families from the Folimage
Folimage
Folimage is a French animation studio, based in Bourg-lès-Valence, Drôme, France. The studio produce animation films for cinema and TV . The company has created an animation school, La Poudrière, also in Valence...
studio:
- Au clair de la lune, a stop motionStop motionStop motion is an animation technique to make a physically manipulated object appear to move on its own. The object is moved in small increments between individually photographed frames, creating the illusion of movement when the series of frames is played as a continuous sequence...
animation by Pascal Le Nôtre - Le Petit Cirque de toutes les couleurs, a stop motion animation by Jacques-Rémy Girerd
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mation by Laurent Pouvaret - Le Prince des joyauxTales of the NightTales of the Night is a 1992 French silhouette animation television special written and directed by Michel Ocelot. It aired on Canal+ in France, ZDF in Germany and Channel 4 in the United Kingdom...
, a silhouette animationSilhouette animationSilhouette animation is animation in which the characters are only visible as black silhouettes. This is usually accomplished by backlighting articulated cardboard cut-outs, though other methods exist...
by Michel OcelotMichel OcelotMichel Ocelot is a French writer, character designer, storyboard artist and director of animated films and television programs and a former president of the International Animated Film Association... - Le Wall, a clay animationClay animationClay animation or claymation is one of many forms of stop motion animation. Each animated piece, either character or background, is "deformable"—made of a malleable substance, usually Plasticine clay....
by Jean-Loup Felicioli - Paroles en l'air, a traditional animationTraditional animationTraditional animation, is an animation technique where each frame is drawn by hand...
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by Sylvain Vincendeau - Le Moine et le poissonThe Monk and the FishThe Monk and the Fish is a 1994 animated short film made by Michaël Dudok de Wit at the studio Folimage. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Animated Short Film at the 67th Academy Awards and Best Short Animated Film at the 48th British Academy Film Awards...
, a traditional animationTraditional animationTraditional animation, is an animation technique where each frame is drawn by hand...
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by Michaël Dudok de WitMichaël Dudok De WitMichael Dudok de Wit is an animator, director and illustrator. In 1978, he graduated from the West Surrey College of Art with his first film The Interview. After working for a year in Barcelona, he settled in London where he directs and animates award-winning commercials for television and cinema...