{"id":11151,"date":"2016-06-14T20:00:53","date_gmt":"2016-06-15T01:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=11151"},"modified":"2016-06-10T10:55:47","modified_gmt":"2016-06-10T15:55:47","slug":"the-secret-adventures-of-tom-thumb-1993-dave-borthwick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/11151","title":{"rendered":"The Secret Adventures of Tom Thumb (1993, Dave Borthwick)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Happy to come across this again &#8211; haven&#8217;t seen it since the VHS days.  Awesome, hour-long stop-motion with live actors interacting with the miniature creations, which must&#8217;ve been difficult.  Dark sci-fi fairy-tale following tiny Tom, born to normal-sized parents, then abducted away to a torture-lab, adopted by a tiny-people society, and brought on a guerrilla mission with a well-armed little guy.  Death and horror is around every corner, and pretty much everyone is doomed.  The grimy, insect-filled design is marvelous, would be cool to see this in HD someday.<\/p>\n<p><em>Stills cannot convey the majesty:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image16\/thumb2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image16\/thumb3.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Oh no, writer\/director Dave Borthwick died a few years ago, after codirecting a kids&#8217; animated feature.  Dave&#8217;s &#8220;Bolex Brothers&#8221; partner Dave Alex Riddett is a stop-motion cinematographer (<em>Wallace and Gromit<\/em>, <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/10149\">Shaun the Sheep<\/a><\/em>, way back to the Sledgehammer video), and the Bolexes also produced the great short <em>The Saint Inspector<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image16\/thumb4.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image16\/thumb1.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy to come across this again &#8211; haven&#8217;t seen it since the VHS days. Awesome, hour-long stop-motion with live actors interacting with the miniature creations, which must&#8217;ve been difficult. Dark sci-fi fairy-tale following tiny Tom, born to normal-sized parents, then abducted away to a torture-lab, adopted by a tiny-people society, and brought on a guerrilla [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[451,96,1524,318,590],"class_list":["post-11151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1990s","tag-animation","tag-dystopia","tag-insects","tag-stop-motion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11151"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11165,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11151\/revisions\/11165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}