Never Like the First Time! V

Length: 75′

Pioneers and first silent animated shorts with live music accompaniment (Andrej Goričar, piano)

All films with dialogue are subtitled in Slovenian and English.

Optical Magic Discs, Thematically Ordered

Directed by: Simon von Stampfer, Thomas Renoldner
Short synopsis:

23 phenakistiscope animations from 1833, foreseeing the (animated) film genres of the coming century.

Vues pour praxinoscope

Directed by: Emile Reynaud
Short synopsis:

In 1876, Émile Reynaud invented praxinoscope, a device in which slits become mirrors; an optical theatre, a film strip made with gelatine and manipulated by hand. The holes between images indicate perforation.

Photo (c) CITIA

Nemogoče slačenje / Going to Bed with Difficulties / Deshabillage impossible

Directed by: Georges Méliès
Short synopsis:

A man takes off his clothes in preparation for bed, only for new clothes to spontaneously generate, leading to comical consternation.

Photo (c) CNC

Privid / Fantasmagorie / A Fantasy

Directed by: Émile Cohl
Short synopsis:

A clown with a pointed hat keeps appearing and disappearing, endlessly transforming. On his journey, he meets a woman with a plumed hat, a man, a horse and an elephant.

Glasbeni pouk / La leçon de musique / The Music Lesson

Directed by: Segundo de Chomón
Short synopsis:

A music teacher gives solfeggio lessons to young women. Their necks get longer to enable the right position of their heads for singing. Paper characters come to life and dance.

Photo (c) CDC CHARENTE

Mali Nemo / Little Nemo

Directed by: Winsor McCay
Short synopsis:

Winsor McCay: The Famous Cartoonist of the N.Y. Herald and His Moving Comics, more commonly known as Little Nemo, is a 1911 silent animated short film by American cartoonist Winsor McCay. One of the earliest animated films, it was McCay's first, and featured characters from McCay's comic strip Little Nemo in Slumberland. Its expressive character animation distinguished the film from the experiments of earlier animators.

La Tuberculose menace tout le monde

Directed by: Jean Comandon, Robert Lortac
Short synopsis:

Lack of hygiene creates a favourable breeding ground for the emergence of tuberculosis. Healthy habits in the sun are part of a healthy lifestyle.

Photo (c) GP

Iz črnilnika: Skakajoči fižolčki / Out of the Inkwell: Jumping Beans

Directed by: Dave Fleischer
Short synopsis:

Koko the Clown plants a jumping bean that becomes a beanstalk. Later, he creates duplicates of himself and attacks his creator.

Trnuljčica / La Belle au bois dormant / Sleeping Beauty

Directed by: Alexandre Alexeïeff
Short synopsis:

This retelling of Sleeping Beauty, recreated through stop motion animation, is centered on lithe Prince Charming, who leaps and bounds through our storybook set. A Gasparcolor film commissioned by a wine company.

Photo (c) NICOLAS

La Loterie Nationale: Qui Perd… Gagne !

Directed by: Paul Grimault
Short synopsis:

Hand-drawn animation commissioned by the French National Lottery.

Žareča ljubezen / Izzó szerelem / Incandescent Love

Directed by: Gyula Macskássy, György Szénásy
Short synopsis:

One of the first animated ads by Gyula Macskássy, using one of the first colour stock techniques, Gasparcolor. It was made for Tungsram, manufacturer of electric light bulbs.

Ideja / L’idée

Directed by: Berthold Bartosch
Short synopsis:

An animated narrative on the theme of humanity's response to ideals, this film traces the story of an artist who sends his abstract ideal out into the world. His artistic conception is rejected and exploited by the ruling powers of business, religion and the military. As the titles make clear, Bartosch's conclusion is that "men live and die for an idea... the idea is immortal. You can persecute it, judge it, forbid it, condemn it to death. But the idea continues to live in the minds of men."

Photo (c) AFCA

Never Like the First Time! V

Length: 75′

Pioneers and first silent animated shorts with live music accompaniment (Andrej Goričar, piano)

All films with dialogue are subtitled in Slovenian and English.

Optical Magic Discs, Thematically Ordered

Directed by: Simon von Stampfer, Thomas Renoldner
Short synopsis:

23 phenakistiscope animations from 1833, foreseeing the (animated) film genres of the coming century.

Vues pour praxinoscope

Directed by: Emile Reynaud
Short synopsis:

In 1876, Émile Reynaud invented praxinoscope, a device in which slits become mirrors; an optical theatre, a film strip made with gelatine and manipulated by hand. The holes between images indicate perforation.

Photo (c) CITIA

Short synopsis:

A man takes off his clothes in preparation for bed, only for new clothes to spontaneously generate, leading to comical consternation.

Photo (c) CNC

Privid / Fantasmagorie / A Fantasy

Directed by: Émile Cohl
Short synopsis:

A clown with a pointed hat keeps appearing and disappearing, endlessly transforming. On his journey, he meets a woman with a plumed hat, a man, a horse and an elephant.

Short synopsis:

A music teacher gives solfeggio lessons to young women. Their necks get longer to enable the right position of their heads for singing. Paper characters come to life and dance.

Photo (c) CDC CHARENTE

Mali Nemo / Little Nemo

Directed by: Winsor McCay
Short synopsis:

Winsor McCay: The Famous Cartoonist of the N.Y. Herald and His Moving Comics, more commonly known as Little Nemo, is a 1911 silent animated short film by American cartoonist Winsor McCay. One of the earliest animated films, it was McCay's first, and featured characters from McCay's comic strip Little Nemo in Slumberland. Its expressive character animation distinguished the film from the experiments of earlier animators.

La Tuberculose menace tout le monde

Directed by: Jean Comandon, Robert Lortac
Short synopsis:

Lack of hygiene creates a favourable breeding ground for the emergence of tuberculosis. Healthy habits in the sun are part of a healthy lifestyle.

Photo (c) GP

Short synopsis:

Koko the Clown plants a jumping bean that becomes a beanstalk. Later, he creates duplicates of himself and attacks his creator.

Short synopsis:

This retelling of Sleeping Beauty, recreated through stop motion animation, is centered on lithe Prince Charming, who leaps and bounds through our storybook set. A Gasparcolor film commissioned by a wine company.

Photo (c) NICOLAS

Short synopsis:

Hand-drawn animation commissioned by the French National Lottery.

Žareča ljubezen / Izzó szerelem / Incandescent Love

Directed by: Gyula Macskássy, György Szénásy
Short synopsis:

One of the first animated ads by Gyula Macskássy, using one of the first colour stock techniques, Gasparcolor. It was made for Tungsram, manufacturer of electric light bulbs.

Ideja / L’idée

Directed by: Berthold Bartosch
Short synopsis:

An animated narrative on the theme of humanity's response to ideals, this film traces the story of an artist who sends his abstract ideal out into the world. His artistic conception is rejected and exploited by the ruling powers of business, religion and the military. As the titles make clear, Bartosch's conclusion is that "men live and die for an idea... the idea is immortal. You can persecute it, judge it, forbid it, condemn it to death. But the idea continues to live in the minds of men."

Photo (c) AFCA