{"id":254,"date":"2020-03-06T21:16:36","date_gmt":"2020-03-06T21:16:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/100\/?p=254"},"modified":"2020-03-06T21:16:36","modified_gmt":"2020-03-06T21:16:36","slug":"the-wooden-athelete-1912","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/100\/2020\/03\/06\/the-wooden-athelete-1912\/","title":{"rendered":"The Wooden Athelete (1912)"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Wooden Athelete<\/em> is a stop motion animation from 1912, depicting various acrobatic events in a small puppet circus, and I found this five-minute long cartoon, directed by Arthur Melbourne Cooper, almost entirely delightful.<\/p>\n

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Though the puppets are fairly simplistic, and the sets almost non-existent, there’s a real joy in every scene of this, and some pretty good jokes, too. I loved it.<\/p>\n

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Notes<\/strong><\/p>\n

1.<\/strong> I watched this on the BFI player<\/a> once again.<\/em><\/p>\n

2.<\/strong> The whole thing is strangely risque, too, as the presence of clothing on some of the audience members at the beginning suggest this entire circus perform their routines 100% nude.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Film Information<\/strong><\/p>\n

Title:<\/strong> The Wooden Athelete<\/em>
\nDirector: Arthur Melbourne Cooper<\/em>
\nYear:<\/strong> 1912<\/em>
\nDuration:<\/strong> 5 minutes<\/em>
\nWatch:<\/strong> BFI player<\/a>; youtube<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Wooden Athelete is a stop motion animation from 1912, depicting various acrobatic events in a small puppet circus, and I found this five-minute long cartoon, directed by Arthur Melbourne Cooper, almost entirely delightful. Though the puppets are fairly simplistic, and the sets almost non-existent, there’s a real joy in every scene of this, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[137,10,135,138,136,36,139],"class_list":["post-254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-this-film-is-more-than-100-years-old","tag-137","tag-animation","tag-arthur-melbourne-cooper","tag-circuses","tag-puppets","tag-stop-motion","tag-the-wooden-athelete"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":257,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254\/revisions\/257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}