FILM: The Old Man and The Sea, Animated on Glass

[Ryan Goble]

I knew about this adaptation as it won an Oscar for Best Animated Short in 1999 but was reminded of it yesterday when Brain Pickings highlighted it. From their site...


What Russian finger-painting has to do with iconic literature and the Oscars.

58 years ago today, Ernest Hemingway received a Pulitzer Prize for The Old Man and the Sea, the iconic novella that catapulted him into international celebrity status. To commemorate the occasion, we’re turning to this exquisite animated adaptation of the book by Russian animator Aleksandr Petrov. Composed of over 29,000 images Petrov and his son Dimitri painted in a unique pastels-on-glass technique over the course of two years, it received the 2000 Academy Award for Animated Short Film and went on to garner wide acclaim across the international awards circuit.

The film is also available on DVD, as well as on YouTube in two parts with the original Russian narration.

Read more: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2011/05/04/the-old-man-and-t...