The Twelve Labors of Hercules

June. 21,1910

Rating：

5.9

Genre：

Adventure Fantasy Animation

Keywords：

Short Silent Film Greek Mythology

Trailer Synopsis Cast

A cut-out animation depicting the Twelve Labours of Hercules.

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Reviews

SpuffyWeb

1910/06/21

Sadly Over-hyped

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Micitype

1910/06/22

Pretty Good

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Matialth

1910/06/23

Good concept, poorly executed.

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Bluebell Alcock

1910/06/24

Ok... Let's be honest. It cannot be the best movie but is quite enjoyable. The movie has the potential to develop a great plot for future movies

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boblipton

1910/06/25

When we think of animation, we usually think of animated drawings. There are, however, several different schools and methods. There is the stop-motion modeling done by Willis O'Brien, Harryhausen and Vinton. And there is the jointed silhouette method favored of Lotte Reiniger.Not surprisingly, Emile Cohl worked in all the various animation styles, although in a far more primitive manner than they would become. Here, in this short in which Hercules' Twelve Labors are reproduced, it's by means that are similar to Reiniger's, although the figures are not black silhouettes on a painted background, but jointed figures on a black background.There is none of the sense of intimacy of Reiniger's work, but then, this is still very early days and Cohl was still working in the mode of trick films in which the animation was as much the point of the film as the story.

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