Friday, June 26, 2009

1957 - TOCCOTA FOR TOY TRAINS by Ray and Charles Eames

15 minutes with a lot of charm. Furniture designers Charles and Ray Eames made this film in 1957 with toy train set collections. The film is photographed from the point of view of the trains and has some remarkable shots of the moving trains. Elmer Bernstein who usually wrote big bombastic scores for movies like The Ten Commandments and many John Wayne westerns composed the music for a small instrumental ensemble.

This is the kind of film that shows what talent and hard work can produce, getting those toy trains to move took a hell of a lot of effort. It's extremely hard to pull off this type of fluff. Puts the Pixar and Disney stuff to shame.

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