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"Ghosts Before Breakfast (Vormittagsspuk, 1928) is said to have initially been a sound film but the Nazi attempt to destroy all copies as "degenerate art" has left us only a silent version. This short film functions even without the sound it once had, & likely the only thing lost was a musical score.
Using stop motion techniques we see the rapid motions of a clock, flying hats settling like a flock of birds in the bushes, a neck tie that refuses to stay tied, windows opening & closing as they elect, hoses coiling & uncoiling themselves & spraying the flying hats, & other inanimate objects becoming animated for their own benefit. Pistols multiply like mammals, dancing about & cocking their triggers. A great many men hide behind a slim pole. Broken dishes put themselves together. A seed grows into a small bush in a short time. Men fight & march or crawl about & chase the flying hats. Body parts fly loose. In the end the hats find heads to their liking & the clock strikes twelve. All this in six minutes, it has a Lewis Carolly sort of feel to it & is a marvellous bit of animation, & perhaps the best of his early short films. It comes off quite lighthearted, comical enough to evoke laughter. Yet Germany had so recently brought about a violent world war & was swiftly headed for another, the imbedded doomful allegory of Ghosts Before Breakfast is not difficult to deduce."
(Text from www.weirdwildrealm.com)
"Ghosts Before Breakfast (Vormittagsspuk, 1928) is said to have initially been a sound film but the Nazi attempt to destroy all copies as "degenerate art" has left us only a silent version. This short film functions even without the sound it once had, & likely the only thing lost was a musical score.
Using stop motion techniques we see the rapid motions of a clock, flying hats settling like a flock of birds in the bushes, a neck tie that refuses to stay tied, windows opening & closing as they elect, hoses coiling & uncoiling themselves & spraying the flying hats, & other inanimate objects becoming animated for their own benefit. Pistols multiply like mammals, dancing about & cocking their triggers. A great many men hide behind a slim pole. Broken dishes put themselves together. A seed grows into a small bush in a short time. Men fight & march or crawl about & chase the flying hats. Body parts fly loose. In the end the hats find heads to their liking & the clock strikes twelve. All this in six minutes, it has a Lewis Carolly sort of feel to it & is a marvellous bit of animation, & perhaps the best of his early short films. It comes off quite lighthearted, comical enough to evoke laughter. Yet Germany had so recently brought about a violent world war & was swiftly headed for another, the imbedded doomful allegory of Ghosts Before Breakfast is not difficult to deduce."
(Text from www.weirdwildrealm.com)