Vincent (1982 film)

• Vincent Price: narrator

Vincent is about a six -minute short film by American director Tim Burton. The film was made in 1982 and has been rotated to the stop-motion technique. In the English original is the text of the film, which only consists of verses, spoken by Vincent Price.

Action

The seven year old Vincent Malloy distributes its time not like the other children play outdoors. He isolated himself at home, where he paints and books like those of Edgar Allan Poe reads. Vincent gives herself to macabre daydreams to be, for example, the illusion of the famous by roles in horror films actor Vincent Price (or one of the played by it figures). Finally, he believes to be a depressed artist who has lost his lover. At the end of Vincent is tormented in the dark and believes himself dead, pays homage to Poe's poem The Raven.

Formation

After graduating in 1979, Tim Burton began to work at Walt Disney Productions. There, however, he did not feel well, because his style very different from that of the other animation artists employed there different and his works have not been used. When he finally put forward the idea of ​​Vincent, a story by a self-written poem, Walt Disney Productions inquired of Vincent Price, whether this would assume the narrator 's voice. As Price agreed, Walt Disney Productions made ​​possible the production of the film.

The film was realized with 2D and puppet animation techniques. As a leading animator Stephen Chiodo acted.

Awards

At the Ottawa International Animation Festival 1984, the film won the Audience Award.