The Penwiper
About The Penwiper
Joseph Sunn's 1926 clay short The Penwiper is a stop-motion piece from the 'Ralph Wolfe's Mud Stuff' series, made in San Francisco.
Cast & crew
More about The Penwiper
Sunn modeled the figures in clay and moved them between exposures. The Public Domain Review groups this short with Green Pastures as the surviving pair from that mud series.
Themes
Look
Stop-motion photography of clay figures.
Preservation
A print survives in the Prelinger collection.
Notes
- It is clay, not a drawn cartoon.
- The series name on the prints is Ralph Wolfe's Mud Stuff.
- Sunn was working in San Francisco, outside the Hollywood cartoon studios.
