Disguise artist

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Movie
German title Disguise artist
Original title Canary Row
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1950
length 7 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
Rod
Director Friz Freleng
script Tedd Pierce
production Edward Selzer
music Carl Stalling
cut Treg Brown
synchronization

Disguise Artist (Original Title: Canary Row ) is an American short film from 1950. Directed by Friz Freleng , the story is by Tedd Pierce . It's a Looney Tunes film that revolves around Sylvester and Tweety .

action

Sylvester searches for a victim from a high-rise building with binoculars. He finds Tweety, who is sitting in his cage in a neighboring house and is also watching him with binoculars. He storms into this house, but is immediately thrown out again - cats are not allowed there. So he climbs up to Tweety on the drainpipe, but is beaten out of the window by Granny. He then crawls up the drain pipe, but Tweety throws a bowling ball into the pipe. Next, Sylvester disguises himself as a monkey and invades the apartment, but is recognized and thrown out again. When he hears that Granny would like to have her things carried out of the house, he steps in as the porter and runs away with the covered cage. When he opens the cage, Granny is sitting in it and knocks him off again. Then he lets himself be thrown upwards with a seesaw and a weight and catches Tweety in this way. But he lands on the seesaw again, throwing the weight up, which then falls on his head. Next he wants to swing himself from his starting point into the apartment on a rope, but ends up on the wall next to the window. Finally he tries to run over on the tram line. Tweety and Granny drive a tram and electrify it several times.

production

Disguise artist is the sixth short film with Tweety and New Year's Eve (after So einüßer Piepmatz , I Taw a Putty Tat , Böse olle Kiezekatze , Home Tweet Home and All in, please ) and the first of them with Granny.

Tweety sings the songs Tweety Bird in the opening credits and When Irish Eyes Are Smiling (written by Ernest Ball , text by Chauncey Olcott and George Graff ) shortly afterwards.

Disguise artist had its world premiere on October 7, 1950 in the USA. The film was also released in Germany. It was produced and distributed by Warner Bros.

reception

Award

For the 1950 Academy Awards , Disguise Artist was nominated in the Best Animated Short Film category. However, producer Edward Selzer withdrew the film so that it was not officially nominated. Even so, Edward Selzer won the Oscar in this category for the film Thick Air , which also belongs to the Looney Tunes .

Aftermath

Disguise artist was employed in psycholinguistics from 1982 . David McNeill and Elena Levy used the film to investigate the gestures that subjects use when telling stories. To this end, they wanted to show the test subjects a short, episodic and easy-to-understand film that is also suitable for children. In addition, there should be a lot of movement and little language in the film. The subjects were then asked to tell another person about one of the episodes. This not only provided them with a template to tell the story, but also received a reference to which they could refer their attempts at interpretation. Disguise Artists was the film they used most often for this purpose. This approach, also using disguise artists , has been adopted by several researchers and extended to other areas, such as studies of child development, sign languages or autism .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gijs Grob: Canary Row. In: Dr. Grob's Animation Review. Retrieved March 16, 2019 .
  2. ↑ 101. The Disguise Artist (Canary Row). In: Fernsehserien.de . Retrieved March 16, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Results. In: Awardsdatabase.Oscars.org. Retrieved March 16, 2019 .
  4. ↑ The 22nd Academy Awards | 1950. In: Oscars.org. Retrieved March 16, 2019 .
  5. ^ David McNeill: Gesture & Thought . The University of Chicago Press, Chicago 2005, ISBN 0-226-51462-5 , Appendix, pp. 259–261 ( online at Archive.org [accessed March 16, 2019]).
  6. ↑ Laiah Factor, Lisa Gershkoff-Stowe, Julie D. Anderson: The Emerging Gesture-speech relationship in Preschoolers Who Do and Do Not Stutter. In: SemanticScholar.org. Retrieved on March 16, 2019 ( procedure section on page 4).
  7. ^ Vadim Kimmelman: Information Structure in Sign Languages: Evidence from Russian Sign Language and Sign Language of the Netherlands . Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-1-5015-1686-3 ( limited preview in the Google book search [accessed on March 16, 2019]).
  8. ↑ Laura B. Silverman, Inge-Marie Eigsti, Loisa Bennetto: I tawt i taw a puddy tat: Gestures in canary row narrations by high-functioning youth with autism spectrum disorder . In: Autism Research . April 1, 2017, doi : 10.1002 / aur.1785 (English).