As a lover of all things animated, it was a total joy to discover the 1962 Karel Zeman directorial effort
The Fabulous Baron Munchausen. Hailing from Czechoslovakia, this highly off-the-wall motion picture beautifully merges live-action and hand-drawn animation in a fluid manner decades before the likes of
Who Framed Roger Rabbit? fine-tuned American cinema's approach to this same technique. Though nearly sixty years old at this point, many modern-day movies could stand to take more than a few cues from
The Fabulous Baron Munchausen in terms of both merging animation and live-action seamlessly as well as how to take advantage of the stylized opportunities afforded by the medium of animation.
