Inspiration (1949 film)

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{{Infobox film

| name = Inspirace

| image =

| caption =

| director = Karel Zeman

| producer =

| writer = Karel Zeman

| starring = Karel Zeman

| music = Zdeněk Liška

| cinematography = Antonín Horák

| editing = Zdeněk Stehlík

| distributor =

| released = {{Film date|1949|01|1|df=yes}}

| runtime = 10 minutes

| country = Czechoslovakia

| language = Czech

| budget =

}}

Inspiration ({{langx|cs|Inspirace}}) is a 1949 Czechoslovak animated{{Cite book|last=Holman|first=Loyd Bruce|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0WELAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Inspiration%22|title=Puppet Animation in the Cinema: History and Technique|date=1975|publisher=A. S. Barnes|pages=58, 85|isbn=978-0-498-01385-0|language=en}} short film directed by Karel Zeman.{{citation|author=Karel Zeman Museum|title=Filmography|work=MuzeumKarlaZemana.cz|url=http://muzeumkarlazemana.cz/en/filmography/filmography|accessdate=3 February 2015|archive-date=2 February 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150202184303/http://www.muzeumkarlazemana.cz/en/filmography/filmography|url-status=dead}} It is a wordless stop-motion film made using glass figurines. The characters in the film are stock characters from Italian commedia dell'arte.{{citation|title=Adventures of Sindbad the Sailor|date=8 November 2011|publisher=WorldCat|isbn=9781590174661|oclc=71626640}}

Plot synopsis

An unnamed man, implied to be an artist, is looking at a drop of water by his window. In it, he sees the clown Pierrot being spurned by his beloved Columbine, who is riding in a horse-drawn carriage.

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