Scene Analysis: The Teddy Bear

MES 140
Scene analysis from The Teddy’ Bears

The short film ‘Teddy’ Bears set in 1907, has features where you can clearly see Edwin S. Porter mixed solid techniques with different materials. It has an admirable sequence of stop-motion scenes that is as enjoyable to watch as it is impressive in its technique. The film can be considered part fairy tale, as well as part violent political satire and a puppet animation.
In the beginning, the plot adapts the famous and very popular fairy tale of Goldilocks and the Three Bears. It contains some sequences that were considered as political criticism also known as propaganda. For example, it was thought that there was a relationship between the film and the President at the time Theodore “Teddy” Roosevelt.
One element in this mixture of fairy tale and

It was not so rich in shots since scenes were long and in most cases in the same environment. The camera movement is static; it doesn’t go anywhere but shows different sets as the outside of the bear house, the inside and the road where the chase began. Being said that the camera didn’t move, movements such as pan, tilt, crane or tracking were absent in this short film.
This film’s point of interest is the mixture of genres and types of narratives that are included in such a short film. This is not really common today since films have become more complex and follow different alignments and respecting genres and rules. Probably all the events that look different from this short film might be due to the technological limitations of that era.
The short film did not have a lot of space for storytelling or narrating the story, therefore, it was a good idea to rely on the audience to understand its narrative.
Many people see this movie as an adaptation of a fairy tale, but politic adepts try to find the connection with Roosevelt’s imperialism. This creates a debate about the main point of the