comparison Jiri Trnka Ruka The Hand and Ersatz (Surogat) - Zagreb Film (1961)

I looked at these two films the hand and ersatz and zagreb film.In my opinion both of these films are very stylerlised. They both have sound tracks that echo the mood of the films. They are two different types of animation, the traditional animation works better here than the stop motion animation used for the longer film. This is not as well done and i think the film seems to stutter a bit.I enjoyed how the two films had soundtracks and colours that make you feel the emotions being portrayed, happiness, loneliness etc.I feel that the stop motion film was too long for the story and that this made the viewer (me!) lose interest.It is also interesting how the graphics in the first film are so of their era, all though that this style is coming fashionalble again.The first film all so made me feel like the main character was talking even though he never actually said anything that i could understand it made me believe in the charecter/animation more.I believe if they used this technique in the hand and ersatz it would have made the film 100 times better. .If i had to choose a favourite film out of the two i would defiantly choose the zagreb film as it kept me entertained throughout.It was very fast paced and very inventive in some ways it reminds me of cartoons today such as the rode runner from the looney tunes.I also believe as i am a fan of the Aardman animations the creators of Wallace and Gromit i probably looked at the stop motion with puppets and was straight away comparing it to stuff from Aardman,this is possibly the reason i did not rate it as high as the other one.In conclusion i believe both films were amazing for their time but i would have to give the zagreb film a higher rating as the and ersatz film was very slow paced and lacked excitement witch i believe is the most important thing to think about when making a film as a film is made to entertain people and with out excitement a film/animation will lose the interest of viewers very quickly but on the other hand it could just be the way i think as the the hand and ersatz could entertain people in other ways that don't interest me or entertain me.