The shooting gallery

Duration: 6

Year Published: 1970

Creator: produced by Krátký film ; production, Zdenek Bumba ; devised, developed, designed, directed, Miroslav Stěpánek.

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Credits: Štěpánek, Miroslav, direction.; Bumba, Zdenek, production.; Malík, Vladimír, camera/lighting.; Kolafa, Jiří, music.; Kavalierová, Jitke, editing.; Procházková, Stána, animation.; Krátký film.; Sim Productions, Inc.

Description: Pacific Film Archive collection; non-circulating. Access by appt. only. CBPF.; Camera, Vladimír Malík ; animation, Stána Procházková ; editing, Jitke Kavalierová ; music, Jiří Kolafa.; Mechanical figures at a shooting gallery are set in motion or stopped when a soldier fires at them. A dancing couple breaks away and floats into space only to be brought back by the soldier's rifle and forced into mechanical obedience once more. Set to calliope music, without narration, provides an allegory on repressed freedom and destroyed love.; Exhibited at the Sixth International Tournée of Animation, 1971.; PFA 1604-01-14268. CONDITION NOTE: Last inspected: 2009 As red as Print A. CONDITION NOTE: Last checked: 2010/07/ 12 Color totally pink.

Metadata Source:BERKELEY ART MUSEUM AND PACIFIC FILM ARCHIVE