Silhouette Fantasies

American Animation (1900s-1940s) (262 items)
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Silhouette Fantasies was an early animated short series by the Bray Animation studio in collaboration with the famous illustrator Charles Allan Gilbert (Mainly known for his famous picture All is Vanity) , it was one of the earliest animated series animated using a shadow puppet style technique where instead of drawing a character shadow puppets would be cut out and manipulated to portray the stories (A surviving example of this film technique would be The Original Film (1922) from the Tony Sarg series) though it also incorporated selective amounts of live action segments and animation, Created in a dedicated studio in 5th avenue the building was modified heavily so that strong shadows would be easy to produce for filming the mixed media series with the produced shorts mainly being centered on myths and adventure stories.