Pal, George
Pal, George (1908–80),Oscar‐winner in 1943 for the development of new film animation techniques which, along with Cinerama, he later employed partly in service of the Grimms. Born in Hungary, Pal made his first film—an advertisement showing cigarettes marching in and out of their packages—in 1934. During the next five years, working in Holland, he developed a series of short films which he called Puppetoons. They were cartoon‐style stories told by means of three‐dimensional animation, in which Pal achieved fluency of movement by having a different puppet made for each frame of film. For each eight‐minute Puppetoon, around 6,000 wooden figures had to be individually carved and painted. This system was expensive, but the results it achieved were popular; Pal moved to the USA in 1939, where his Oscar helped him carry on making Puppetoons for another ten years.
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