Animated film using the Pinboard / 8’30 ’’
Music by Modest Moussorgsky arranged by Nikolaï RimskyKorsakoff.
Distribution Cinédoc - Paris Films Coop

Trained as an engraver, Alexandre Alexeïeff, with the help of his wife Claire Parker, invented a new tool for animation films: the pinscreen. The images are produced by the shadows of thousands of pins lit from the side which, pushed out of a white screen, provide the multiple grey tones, shapes, blur and contours. Each image is then photographed. Une nuit sur le Mont Chauve (Night on bold mountain) is the first of five films that Alexeïeff made using this technique which he called "animated engravings".

Born in 1901 in Kazan, Russia.
Died in 1982 in Paris, France.