Weird screen test of “colormation”, dating to some time around (I’m guessing by content) the early 1960s 1962. David Pescovitz of Boing Boing writes, “The technique, similar in look to rotoscoping, appears to involve a combination of live actors, high-contrast cinematography, and hand-drawn backgrounds and foregrounds.”
A quick Google search turns up a bit more context. Cartoon Brew put together a few interesting details surrounding this weird find back in September.
The clip is credited to Leon H. Maurer, who has quite an impressive resume, and is apparently related to Norman Maurer (comic book artist, film director, Moe Howard’s son-in-law), who used a similar process (called “Cinemagic�) in his 1960 feature film, The Angry Red Planet. In 1955 Leon started Illustrated Films, Inc. (with Norman) and they co-invented Artiscope, a “full animation-by-automation� system (per Leon’s resume, “Realistic character animation without artists - world’s first practical “real-time motion capture� system�).
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