Pal, George Walter Lantz Production

Description

Black piano used by George Pal in the 1947 animated film Date with Duke. This film is a humorous short featuring Duke Ellington performing and in conversation about jazz style with a number of Puppetoon characters.George Pal was one of the pioneers of stop-frame animation, a painstaking process achieved by moving figures and shooting each change on a single frame of film in a series of progressive steps. For each frame shot, the head, arms, and legs of the figures were changed according to the motions needed to create the illusion of movement.Currently not on view

Record Contributed By

National Museum of American History

Record Harvested From

Smithsonian Institution