Animator and filmmaker Karel Zeman (1910-89) is a little-known figure in the U.S., even among animation and fantasy fans. But “A Ship With Painted Sails: The Fabulous Animation of Karel Zeman!” a ...

A former marketing man for a shoe company, Karel Zeman took a job for an animation studio and went on to create not only several of the most influential Czech films of all time, but become arguably ...

Eastern Europe's answer to Ray Harryhausen gets his documentary due. By THR Staff FILM ADVENTURER KAREL ZEMAN Still - H 2015 ...

Tickets for Museum of the Moving Image’s screening are $12 ($9 senior citizens and students / $6 children 3–12) and free for Museum members at the Film Lover level and above. Advance tickets are ...

The Criterion Collection, a prestigious US film distributor, recently launched a collection of digitally restored films by the pioneering Czech animator Karel Zeman.

When we think of Czech cinema, we typically recall the new-wave films of the 1960s, including such Oscar winners as “The Shop on Main Street” (1965) and “Closely Watched Trains” (1966), as well as the ...

Seventy-year-old filmmaker Karel Zeman recapitulated his thirty years of work in the field of animated and trick films. The film Karel Zeman for Children includes excerpts from Baron Prášil, The Tale ...

The National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea, will explore the history of animation from the 1920s to the 1940s in an exhibition that starts Friday.

Karel Zeman was a brilliant pioneer of special effects in film. Despite his artistic talent, his parents insisted he study business. At the age of 17, he went to Aix-en-Provence in the south of France ...