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By Paul Sperow is still wet, she sprinkles granular chips of glass (the kind used to decorate greeting cards) on the tiny cut-outs and large BEMEMBER.when.. those hbjr tales used to keep us wide Howmany castlfs car hm? ItV ccaylo lose count in this assortment but all fit pnperiy into scenario. eyed, with dragons and knights going strong. In Neva; Never Land? Everybody lived happily the' script says, -rise fromhis throne. Once, againFrank- avoids using, fingers tokeep from spilling the tiny A stick.

with a pin on its end pushes an arm or leg a fraction where-it was. Clicking the camera 'once more, and bymov-ing each arm or leg' a little more each Frank -soon gets the king where he's going. -The story says that when news "wu wwi ever, after and no one paid vmERE COMMERCIAL firms, IK. Tomottf lu, the htmdmb to sox fonver, (mt klnp taflnit, ieuil Fr.no. and witches are very much alive to Frances and Frank Kallenberg in North Long Beadv -Inspired by ah animated'title he made, for a fellow memherof and Frank file their-stacks of scenes and characters in an end-lesa number- of- envelopes.

An; elaborate marking system is used. Background paintings must cor uacKgrouna paintings muse cor -t toe Long Beach Cinema aubOrespond to the script Ctertain? kings-daughter being kid-; Frank broueht forth two' short a Frank brought forth two' short Pink elephants or nothing compared to this dragon. XaUsnhsrg's hand is ready to make tho dragon cut-out cartoon movies. The first called Toute," featured a horse, with rumbles and-tumbles along toe way. The other-pa-pertoon went 'Under the suspicious title of "Mule Sigarates.

The screen overflowed with Characters and crazy machines -making "sigarates" but there wasn't a speck of tobacco anywhere. The "sigarate" factory was full of mules! Their latest script is thicker than a castle wall. Its called 'Tour Jacks and a Jill. Being a full length feature over 33 min utes long means Frank will dick over 59,000 single pictures on a strip of colored film stretching one-fifth of a mile! naped by a dragon comes out, a reward ofmarriage is promised to toe man who rescues the girl. Three Jacks show-oip, falling all over each other between magic wishes and Jaguar cars, all trying to be firstest with the.

princess. The dragon, meanwhile, has a crush on the princess and while his fire breathing thermostat is on low, the daughter is snatched by. the Jacks. It's a tie between the Jacks for marriage, so the king sets up a new assignment. There is an enchanted castle whose plumbing is loaded with the water of brighter of the Jacks makes it to and from the castle first, with a Jugful rf -the precious sized characters are labeled to use in inarmed scenes, all under the almighty script.

Frank seats himself before his animation machine which he built -just for paper toons. A 16-mm Bolex movie camera is screwed' tightly to a metal framework of 'angled girders about five feet high and four feet wide. Below the coated lens lies the layout board that precious place where the papertoons come to life. An auto battery, at the base of the machine connects to a solonoid switch which punches the camera button when activat-: ed. This relieves Frank of hav-' ing to snap each picture with a finger.

A clumsy finger can jar II? precision Joeys of the camera. THE WAYthe papertoon is made is more unbelievable than tlfe fairy tale used almost. The complete story must be drawn in captions to figure how many pictures have to be taken for eadi sequence. Knowing his film will run through his projector at' 24 pictures per second, Frank watches the dock closely. Not or cause an elbow to shuffle the delicate papertoon placements on the layout "A mistake la made before I can even think about it," says Flank.

"In order to move the character around, I must remember where they were before. Any background movement' (such as the rolling sea) must be waterinaroagie flying machine. He starts back to the king again but being softhearted, he picks UP his other two brothers, who had been waylaid on their way to the castle. -THAT NIGHT, they stop at an Inn, wheyc some finagling takes place with the water, jug while our hero sleeps.The next' day, the king samples a drink from, the "Jug: Phooie! Somebody swapped the water of life for some, dishwater. Our hero grabs the jug and escapes to a far off land for good.

v- The other twp Jacks then come out from hiding with the genuine A script conference: Nonsense con ho serious and is carefully planned before papertoon production- begins. only must he observe how many, watched for-. in with. the number of pictures for each have to con-rider whether the characters are moving fast or slow. Meanwhile, I have to keep in mind what is going on in the story as well as movements a papertoon ter should make in a second, but the logical number of seconds it takes for slow or fast action.

Preparing a scene where the king la seated on his throne, the still a one-man deal. Off1 says motor on the camera. By the time. check all this, its easy for me to forget to snap toe pic-ture." WHEN, IT IS TIME to "roll," the script is at Franks right Suppose a scene being shot is "inside the castle. A cut-out traced -and cut rom7scparate pieces of colored paper.

Patient scissors Cut dozens of marble pillars, mouths, faces, ships, and what all, In sizes from one to five indies. The size, of course; depends on the camera angle. A castle would be five. Inches high in a long shot A mans head in a close-up also would be- five Indies high. Then Frances takes to her paintbrush; With showcard colon, different medieval designs are put on the castles and costume.

While toe paint 1 the king, "for an. island treasure, They go to the island where toe treasure all right, but thats where they meet with some local savages who happen to like Mul-ligan stew. Later, toe herb comes back to background is put on the layout help toe king but of a tight Marble pillan are placed on each famine and of course rights the aide and the king, on his throne wrong about the other Jacks carefully in the center. Ever so swiping the water of life, and carefully the kings robe is placed leaving the dishwater. The hero, CHck! The first the princess and the Kallenbergs frame is taken.

rom what live happily ever after. The end. "You mean we're finished? The KaUenberge relax aftJ ec completing a papertoon. It's bean arduous chore, iu 'J.