Flying Puppets / Wonder Bread
Xeni introduces us to the amazing flying machines of Carl Rankin -- they're made from unusual materials, like drinking straws, tape, thread, even restaurant take-out boxes. The "Jules Verne" looks more like a clipper ship than a radio-controlled model plane. Next, you've seen claymation, but -- dough-mation? "Behold the Wonder," a short film by Ben Rodkin.
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gets stuck at 38 seconds for me. pretty amazing looking machine he has made there though.
Those are some pretty sweet planes, but what's the inspiration for the name "Flying Puppets"? It's good branding, but by that logic you could call RC cars "Rolling Puppets."
It goes past pretty quick, but does the stop-motion bread creature put BBTV on its screen? That'd give that screen more nutritional value than an entire loaf of Wonder Bread.
I always hated the fact that you'd spend lots of money and time building an RC plane, and then it would crash once, and basically that was it.