The Story of Time
1951 | 10m | English
Popularity: 0.2 (history)
| Director: | Michael Stainer-Hutchins, Gerard Holdsworth |
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| Writer: | Michael Stainer-Hutchins |
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| Mankind's numerous ways of measuring the passage of time through history are depicted through stop-motion animation, from ancient sundials to simple mechanical devices, up through complex modern timepieces. | |
| Release Date: | Jun 06, 1951 |
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| Director: | Michael Stainer-Hutchins, Gerard Holdsworth |
| Writer: | Michael Stainer-Hutchins |
| Genres: | Animation, Documentary |
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| Production Companies | Signal Films, Cornell Film Company |
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Revenue: $0
Budget: $0 |
| Updates |
Updated: Jan 26, 2026 Entered: Jul 12, 2024 |
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| Name | Job |
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| Michael Stainer-Hutchins | Writer, Director |
| Gerard Holdsworth | Director |
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Rolex commissioned this ten minute film that shows us just how mankind has learned to measure time. From the ancient Egyptians through a variety of sundials, egg-timers and then to more precision instruments this ends up, fittingly enough, with one of their wrist watches. The mixtures of stop-motion ... and real-time animation styles works well and in telling us all about light, shadows and timepieces it also showcases some fine examples of the intricacies of their artistry too. Elegant hieroglyphs; delicate cuckoo clocks with automated characters, perfectly engraved pieces of jewellery and some fairly substantial constructions to house them all feature. The score is a little soporific, but this is still quite a cleverly crafted piece of cinema.