Anyone one of those toys is work a small fortune now a days! That was some impressive early stop animation. Everything about it was a great look at our past, from production values, the child's costume and the sets. Thanks for posting this rare gem.
Arthur Melbourne-Cooper was one of the great unsung pioneers of the early film industry. To do stop-go animation within a dozen years of the invention of moving pictures is nothing short of amazing.
This needs to be on one of those wonderful BFI box sets; maybe one about the birth of cinema. The animation is amazingly detailed and complex in contrast with the very basic and theatrical live action material with its incredibly long takes. I guess editing was still in its infancy. Amazing to look back over 100 years.
The opening shot is of a street in St Albans, Hertfordshire, where Arthur Melbourne Cooper lived and worked. As for the rest, that's pretty like St Albans nowadays after the pubs and clubs shut on a Friday or Saturday night.
This really made me laugh, but in the way its creators probably intended, rather than in a snobbish "isn't it primitive way". Actually, for its era, its superb and so watchable. Its like toy story 87 years early. Twee and yet violent at the same time. It even has a cameo from Paul Whitehouse - bloody brilliant!
Although slow, the live action was interesting for its period look and feel, but once the animation started the film became rivetting. Such a passion for the intricate and painstaking ! and so abundantly rewarded by such a wonderful result ! There is just a bit of the Little Nemo comic strip and a foretaste of Toy Story, Toyland films and cartoons to come. And to think hardly anyone knows it exists in the big media scheme of things. What a shame after so much work making such a wonderous film.
This is the best stop-motion animation I've seen. It's so complex and it obviosly requires plenty of skill and synchronization. I'd never seen one in which so much was going on at the same time. Brilliant. It's funny and pretty violent at the same time, I must say!
Earliest stop action animation I have seen. Very bizarre and violent. A fight going on almost all the time. Very Complicated animation with dozens of things moving. I've seen a couple of thos toys on Antiques Roadshow.
Yikes, a fine piece of early film and extensive animation to be sure. Too bad all those toys, which do some strange things to each other at times, befell such an unfortunate fate.
Love the way the toys just keep coming and going, a continual unfurling of purposeless meandering motion. Never seen anything quite like it. I don't expect to be visually stimulated to the same degree when I finally drag myself off to The Hobbit.
Удивительно. Это так похоже на меня. Я тоже маленькая в детстве когда ложилась спать, - всегда думала о том что игрушки в комнате ночью оживают. Но я смотрела в детстве мультики про игрушки в игрушечных магазинах. А этот эксклюзив вижу в первые.
Oddly fevered, like the sort of nightmare one had as a child in the far off days of Measles and scarlet fever...the Dutch dolls were eerie, and the ending...well! put it this way, Victorian/Edwardian children were not given ''cute'' toys like today's kids are..very interesting film.Those toys would be worth a small fortune today!
What kind of toy store operates out of a barber shop? OR is it the other way around? Either way, why would it require a "Private Room for Ladies?" And the mother is played by a man. So much weirdness going on... Was that child abducted?
Now you mention it the mother does look rather manly, & face covered up most of time. It seems strange though why they would do that if true. Good though, particularly the animation.
C' est une représentation de l'idéologie capitaliste et du combat que se mènent les produits concurrents, du désarroi et du kao qui règne sur la planète et du sentiment de peur, de tristesse et du désespoir que l'on vit tous à l'intérieur.
Anyone one of those toys is work a small fortune now a days!
That was some impressive early stop animation. Everything about it was a great look at our past, from production values, the child's costume and the sets.
Thanks for posting this rare gem.
Just amazing, the amount of effort and ingenuity put on this makes it a masterpiece of its time in due right. Thanks for uploading it here.
Arthur Melbourne-Cooper was one of the great unsung pioneers of the early film industry. To do stop-go animation within a dozen years of the invention of moving pictures is nothing short of amazing.
112 years ago.Very impressive!
What a masterpiece!
This is so beautiful!! I love how simple and wonderful things used to be in the past... Thanks for sharing 😍😍
This needs to be on one of those wonderful BFI box sets; maybe one about the birth of cinema.
The animation is amazingly detailed and complex in contrast with the very basic and theatrical live action material with its incredibly long takes. I guess editing was still in its infancy.
Amazing to look back over 100 years.
This dream sequence is basically Paprika parade of 1908. Absolutely amazing.
The opening shot is of a street in St Albans, Hertfordshire, where Arthur Melbourne Cooper lived and worked. As for the rest, that's pretty like St Albans nowadays after the pubs and clubs shut on a Friday or Saturday night.
This really made me laugh, but in the way its creators probably intended, rather than in a snobbish "isn't it primitive way". Actually, for its era, its superb and so watchable. Its like toy story 87 years early. Twee and yet violent at the same time. It even has a cameo from Paul Whitehouse - bloody brilliant!
...and at the end they all die in a car crash! No wonder the little boy cries. Needs a 15 certificate I feel
yes the paul whithouse comment i thought the exact same thing!!!
@@hanndonfield91 who is paul whithouse and where is he?
The horse throwing his rider and then sitting on him was hilarious. The ending was tragic-that would have woken me up too!
Imagine trying to explain everything going on at once during the dream sequence to a blind person.
Although slow, the live action was interesting for its period look and feel, but once the animation started the film became rivetting. Such a passion for the intricate and painstaking ! and so abundantly rewarded by such a wonderful result ! There is just a bit of the Little Nemo comic strip and a foretaste of Toy Story, Toyland films and cartoons to come.
And to think hardly anyone knows it exists in the big media scheme of things. What a shame after so much work making such a wonderous film.
This is the best stop-motion animation I've seen.
It's so complex and it obviosly requires plenty of skill and synchronization.
I'd never seen one in which so much was going on at the same time. Brilliant.
It's funny and pretty violent at the same time, I must say!
Love all the toys fighting haha. The monkey and polar bear! The police! The spindly fashion dolls even get caught up! Great humour :))
a timepiece masterpiece. what LOVE!
Earliest stop action animation I have seen. Very bizarre and violent. A fight going on almost all the time. Very Complicated animation with dozens of things moving. I've seen a couple of thos toys on Antiques Roadshow.
That was wonderfully hilarious!
wow, some pretty wild action there. i love the tough guy bear.
Much more entertaining than Christmas of today, very enjoyable.
Really liked the104 year old store front scenes!
A very charming film .
Chucky. Psycho. Carrie. Bride of chucky. Land of mis fit toys on bath salts. There is no shortage of mayhem. Thanks for putting this on!
Amazing, in that time, it was like magic, this was new.
Polar bear attacking a policeman lol!
Yikes, a fine piece of early film and extensive animation to be sure. Too bad all those toys, which do some strange things to each other at times, befell such an unfortunate fate.
so glad i subscribe to this channel
keep digging these gems out plz
simply wonderful
kid's dream.then wonderful toyland appeared.good movie.
4:25 the bear did a suplex to that figurine lol This is like watching Robot Chicken 100 years ago
I remember a film like this but the toys come to life on Christmas when a little girl opens them
I love it so much! Xx
i would say people born around 1908 are in there 120's
Golliwogg makes his own appearance here! 😯
Talk about a scary , creepy dream. I'd awake crying too
The shop next door had 'dry cleaners' on the glass !
Love the way the toys just keep coming and going, a continual unfurling of purposeless meandering motion. Never seen anything quite like it. I don't expect to be visually stimulated to the same degree when I finally drag myself off to The Hobbit.
This should be rated R for violence.
Удивительно. Это так похоже на меня. Я тоже маленькая в детстве когда ложилась спать, - всегда думала о том что игрушки в комнате ночью оживают. Но я смотрела в детстве мультики про игрушки в игрушечных магазинах. А этот эксклюзив вижу в первые.
So interesting. Do you have one of his earliest films, Dolly’s Toys?
This is so funny. Pre-Toy Story??? Like it, thanks
Any influence from Winsor Mac Cay and the Little Nemo?
i loved the tough-guy bear.
2:46, something hits the wall or ??? that picture certainly starts swinging in the breeze....
Wind moved it, the set was open to the light. You'll also see the frills of the blanket move.
Weren't wall plaques used as 'watermarks' to prevent unauthorised duplication?
Pause @ 4:21, 5:30, 5:34, & 5:43.
Given the complexity of the animation, it's a miracle that this only happened four times out of the 5,760 total frames of the animated segment.
The other shop keepers coming out to see what these people are doing with that weird machine in the road...
is it weird that this scares the living shit out of me?
No its kinda creepy in parts. 3:35
They just animated that car running over a dog or something...trippy. 3:35
That bear is a menace to society
"GTA: TOYLAND"
WOW! Great
Oh boy!The "Dolphin's Road Gang" go to town!
this was wild
The kid must have watched Toy Story too many times!
1022 years years ago discovered everything car,etc Super world. ☺️
very complex stop action animation
Oddly fevered, like the sort of nightmare one had as a child in the far off days of Measles and scarlet fever...the Dutch dolls were eerie, and the ending...well! put it this way, Victorian/Edwardian children were not given ''cute'' toys like today's kids are..very interesting film.Those toys would be worth a small fortune today!
Its like they made a film to scare the crap out of kids to not want toys...~( :
3:43 GTA 0.5, circa 1908.
Better than a most of that lego stop motion crap everywhere...
Hilarious but amazing 112 1/2 years old
Gnikcohs, [below] I too thought of ''Little Nemo in Toyland''...
87 years later toy story was out
Those toys must have cost dozens of dollars!
Haha, it's like an early Toy Story!
Poor old teddy and Golly. Couldn't happen today though.....you can't burn G...
4:20
O.k. dry cleaning was invented in1825. (Thought it was a modern process). Live and learn.
La primera Toy Story
Watch this with this song watch?v=qM3arQVkTYU
Combined with this film it's unreal.
toy seller looks like roberto benigni
Pourquoi tant de violence ?
What kind of toy store operates out of a barber shop?
OR is it the other way around?
Either way, why would it require a "Private Room for Ladies?"
And the mother is played by a man.
So much weirdness going on...
Was that child abducted?
Now you mention it the mother does look rather manly, & face covered up most of time. It seems strange though why they would do that if true. Good though, particularly the animation.
no, it's called dreaming.
So much is going on. lol
Toy seller looks like Nicholas Cage.
C' est une représentation de l'idéologie capitaliste et du combat que se mènent les produits concurrents, du désarroi et du kao qui règne sur la planète et du sentiment de peur, de tristesse et du désespoir que l'on vit tous à l'intérieur.
Sorry, clicked on thumb down instead of thumb up!