South African adventure comedy Khumba to release on DVD
South African movie Khumba, the 3D, computer animated adventure comedy will be available on DVD in English, isiZulu and Afrikaans from 03 March 2014
February 19th, 2014
South African movie Khumba, the 3D, computer animated adventure comedy will be available on DVD in English, isiZulu and Afrikaans from 03 March 2014. It occupies the number 1 position at the South African box office when it released theatrically. It will be the first time that Zulu kids can watch an animated feature in their own language since Disney released a Zulu version of The Lion King 20 years ago. It has been translated into over 20 foreign languages.
The DVD are extra features like the trailer, the music video The Real Me by well-known South African musician Loyiso Bala, antecedently unreleased out takes called ‘Acting Out’, a character evolution, which depicts the personality of each of the animal characters, 'The Karoo - A World of Difference', and at last a glimpse into the growth of Nora the sheep voiced by Catherine Tate in 'Nora, a great partnership'.
The English version features the voices of Liam Neeson, Jake T Austin, Anna Sophia Robb, Laurence Fishburne and Steve Buscemi, among others; when the Afrikaans actors who voiced some of the characters include Bettie Kemp, Hannes Brümmer, Rika Sennett, Francois Stemmet, Lochner de Kock.
Phenakistoscope (1831) A phenakistoscope disc by Eadweard Muybridge (1893).The phenakistoscope was an early animation device. It was invented in 1831 simultaneously by the Belgian Joseph Plateau and the Austrian Simon von Stampfer. It consists of a disk with a series of images, drawn on radii evenly spaced around the center of the disk. Slots are cut out of the disk on the same radii as the drawings, but at a different distance from the center. The device would be placed in front of a mirror and spun. As the phenakistoscope is spun, a viewer would look through the slots at the reflection of the drawings which would only become visible when a slot passes by the viewer's eye. This created the illusion of animation.
