Tom Tom the piper's son

Duration: 115 mi

Genre: Educational

Year Published: 1969

Creator: K. Jacobs

Format: 16mm

Color: Color & B&W

Sound: silent

Description: Jacobs examines a film from the silent era using freeze frame, slow and reverse motion, superimpositions, masks, wipes, color, flicker effects and other techniques to offer a brilliant lesson in perception and perception-training. He shows us what to look for in the 1905 version of Tom Tom the piper's son [made by Billy Bitzer]. He selects for us those aspects of the film intriguing to him by isolating and magnifying details and by distending important moments. Those elements towards which he directs our concentration - formal elements for the most part - tend to draw our attention away from the narrative. When he projects the original film, once again at the end of his re-working it, he is allowing us the pleasure of viewing it with our newly trained eyes. At the same time, he is heightening our awareness of how much we have just learned about visual perception. , animated. a little gruesome tale about a tom thumb tricking humans and being eaten by animals. voices by Hans Conried and June Foray.

Complete Record: Jacobs examines a film from the silent era using freeze frame, slow and reverse motion, superimpositions, masks, wipes, color, flicker effects and other techniques to offer a brilliant lesson in perception and perception-training. He shows us what to look for in the 1905 version of Tom Tom the piper's son [made by Billy Bitzer]. He selects for us those aspects of the film intriguing to him by isolating and magnifying details and by distending important moments. Those elements towards which he directs our concentration - formal elements for the most part - tend to draw our attention away from the narrative. When he projects the original film, once again at the end of his re-working it, he is allowing us the pleasure of viewing it with our newly trained eyes. At the same time, he is heightening our awareness of how much we have just learned about visual perception. , animated. a little gruesome tale about a tom thumb tricking humans and being eaten by animals. voices by Hans Conried and June Foray.NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.