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- TriviaIn 1950 the Fleischer's decided to update the film with modern (1950) airplanes and diesel trains to replace the old 1923 versions. Budget was so low that no soundtrack was added to keep the film modern looking.
Back in 1928 when sound was being added to 35mm film, part pf the picture area had to be given up for the soundtrack. So when the Fleischer's modernized the planes and trains they used sound stock footage and you can see the optical soundtrack to the side of the picture in these inserts.
Most surviving prints are the 1950 update.
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While Evolution is Max Fleischer's live-action look at nature, at least part of it is clay-animated, courtesy of Willis O'Brien
This is perhaps one of the most unusual of Max Fleischer's films since-with the exception of some clay stop-motion animation involving dinosaurs-it's almost entirety live-action. As I implied, Max and his brother Dave don't usually do live-action unless there's some drawn animation mixed with it but this is mostly a documentary about the beginning of Earth and the civilizations that resulted from there as we see various formations and animals doing what comes naturally to them being depicted. The exception I just cited were not from Max and Dave but from Willis O'Brien-the man famous for his work on the original The Lost World and the original King Kong-that was taken from his own live-action/animated film The Ghost of Slumber Mountain. What Max does here is what Walt Disney did later in his career with his True-Life Adventure films: Provide narration over various landscapes and the animals inhabiting them. In summary, Evolution was quite a fascinating filmed look at nature during the silent movie era.
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- tavm
- Sep 14, 2020
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