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No Strings Attached ,.v. Making a broom is an intricate operation for tiny Hansel. In a downtown New York motion picture studio, more than a score of inanimate actors are putting on a slow motion per formance of "Hansel and Gretel" that would do credit to human showfolk. They will be seen on the screen sometime next spring. The "stars" are singing, dancing, acting dolls which have ad vanced beyond the roles of ordinary puppets or marionettes. They are mechanically and electrically operated. It took their creator, Michael Myerberg, 15 years to develop them. They cost upward of $2500 each. The little figures are versatile. Their armatures, or skeletons, duplicate very closely the movements of human beings. Their limbs can be locked in any position. They're moved by animators on magnetized stages and photographed one frame at a time. Approximately 117,000 single photographs will make up the 78 minute film. For closeups, the heads are operated electronically. Twelve separate calibrated dials enable the operator to move the face automatically in any one of thousands of expressions.^ John Paul, director 6f Hansel aid Gretel, Has 'STAPV IN THK MAKING star* of th? film. / umm Ch*?nist Isidor Rosenblatt grinds up on* of j?lly components of whldi Mfvn o? tii* figure's life-like skin. * Mold maker Byron Baer removes a cat from the mold. The animal will be seen in "Hoisel and Gretel." At home, hungry Hansel fingers the Ditcher of milk at Gretel looks on. \v Hansel and Gretel ore in the skeleton stages Larry Johnson, left, prepares a plastic skull ' (or mounting. Model maker Al Abram owitz, right, assembles a figure which will be Gretel. In background, workers are busy at a lathe and drill press. It't 0 busy studio, ot Herb Schaeffer check* camera fo cus and animator Danny Diamond positions Grotol. Animation director Nathalie Schulz keeps "score" on production (hoot. ThU WmV'i PICTURE SHOW by AP Strfl Phu^S.. Rob?r1 Kfjlw
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