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Between 1944 and 1950, he co-created ten films, including the award-winning Cadet Rousselle, and developed his skills at animating articulated, painted, metal cut-outs. [3] In 1948, Dunning traveled to Paris and spent a year working for UNESCO under the mentorship of the Czech animator Berthold Bartosch and furthering his experiments with ...
Animated puppets illustrate the old French satirical song about Cadet Rousselle, ostentatious, affected, the clown of the period between the French Revolution and the military order of Napoleon. Cadet Rousselle falls down a ladder, trips on battlements, even his dogs will not obey him.
But it was his work on Grim Pastures (1944), Three Blind Mice (1945) and especially Cadet Rouselle (1947) – with its use of articulated, painted, metal cut-outs – that marked him as an individual talent.
Cadet Rousselle: Directed by George Dunning.
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- Short, Animation
- George Dunning
- 1947-09-03
Cadet Rousselle (1947) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
1947 Directed by George Dunning. Colourful puppets illustrate the old French song about Cadet Rousselle, who falls down a ladder, who trips on battlements, and whose dogs will not obey him. The animated figures carry our hero through his predicaments with colour and verve. Crew. Details. Genres. Releases. Director. George Dunning. Producer.
Director: George Dunning. Producer: James Beveridge. Animation: Colin Low, George Dunning. Music: Maurice Blackburn, Le lyrique. Production Company: National Film Board of Canada.
