Ersatz (Surogat) - Zagreb Film (1961)
‘tells the story of a tourist on a beach who inflates an entire village’
When I begin watching this cartoon my immediate thought is, I hate the ‘end credits’ at the beginning. I am about one minute and ten seconds in and I still have not seen a sign of a cartoon yet.
The good thing I can say about it is the music is quite nicely chosen. It adds to the humour of it and overall just seems very chilled out. The concept of being able to inflate whatever you want out of little blocks is really fun, makes me think of what I’d do with such ability. The cartoon seems very childish when you look as I watch it, seeing the breast size on the lady and paying attention to the whole storyline, I begin to think it’s aimed more on adults?
Jiri Trnka Ruka The Hand
When I watched this cartoon I can’t say anything else but that I am really creeped out by it. I can’t even see past the interesting animation or the story I just can’t get over the CREEPY HAND! I think it’s a metaphor of the communist dictatorship controlling/manipulating the artists to create what they want them to create… or nothing at all. In the cartoon ‘the hand’ destroys the pots the little artist created, it’s not letting him even open the window without barging in and destroying his little plant.
It’s really hard to compare the two cartoons because the first one, as I said earlier, seems really childish with no deeper meaning. Where this one is very meaningful. It’s sending a strong message to the people. The audio in the first cartoon is very comforting and friendly where’s the second one it adds to the creepiness of the hand. Another thing I wanted to comment on is the animations themselves. It seems to me like they’re both stopmotion but first one being hand drawn and the second one seems like they have built the set for it. But that way they made it easy to incorporate the hand into it.
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