Film Record: Fantasy in Toyland

Still image from Fantasy In Toyland in Movie Makers, Dec. 1947, 513.

Date produced: 1947

Filmmaker(s):

Charles H. Benjamin

Languages:

English

Length:

400 ft

Format:

16mm

Colour:

Kodachrome

Sound Notes:

Silent

Awards/Recognition:

ACL Ten Best 1947 - Honorable Mention General Class

Description:

"Using animated puppets and hand painted water color backgrounds, Charles H. Benjamin, in Fantasy in Toyland, takes a curious dog through the horrors usually reserved for white knights, to save a fabulous female canine in distress. The story is old but the treatment is new. The puppets were manipulated from below stage level and filmed frame by frame with a remotely controlled camera. The star of the piece meets cows, dragons and various beasts made of pine cones and other strange raw materials. The film ends on the accepted romantic note." Movie Makers, Dec. 1947, 536-537.

Resources:

Benjamin discusses making puppet films in "No Strings Attached" (Movie Makers, Oct. 1948, 394-395, 417-418). The article presents images of Benjamin's "puppet stage" production set up.

Subjects:

• Animals
•      Pets
•           Dogs
• Nature

Genre:

• Comedy
• Romance

Form:

• Animation

Screenings:

• Screened by the Brooklyn Amateur Cine Club in 1948 and 1950: Brooklyn, N.Y.

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