{"id":1847,"date":"2015-12-23T14:11:10","date_gmt":"2015-12-23T17:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.generaleccentric.net\/?p=1847"},"modified":"2015-12-23T14:14:01","modified_gmt":"2015-12-23T17:14:01","slug":"christopher-chapman-1927-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.generaleccentric.net\/?p=1847","title":{"rendered":"Christopher Chapman, 1927-2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1848\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1848\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.generaleccentric.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/DSCN4552.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[1847]\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1848\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1848\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.generaleccentric.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/DSCN4552-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Christopher Chapman\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.generaleccentric.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/DSCN4552-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blog.generaleccentric.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/DSCN4552-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.generaleccentric.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/DSCN4552.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1848\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">He had a unique doorstop at his front door.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I was sorry to read in the Globe and Mail of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/news\/national\/christopher-chapman-oscar-winner-invented-brady-bunch-effect\/article27056899\/\">the recent passing of Oscar-award-winning Christopher Chapman<\/a>. He was\u00a0an acolyte of Eric Aldwinckle, and I met him and his wife Glen at his Uxbridge home about ten years ago when researching <a href=\"http:\/\/ericaldwinckle.info\/\">a book on Eric<\/a>. Christopher was a brilliant innovator who mastered the technique\u00a0of choreographing multiple moving images in one large movie frame. He won his Oscar with the short film at Expo &#8217;67: &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rt-5tAWJxvU\">A Place To Stand<\/a>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>He was a gentleman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was sorry to read in the Globe and Mail of the recent passing of Oscar-award-winning Christopher Chapman. He was\u00a0an acolyte of Eric Aldwinckle, and I met him and his wife Glen at his Uxbridge home about ten years ago when researching a book on Eric. Christopher was a brilliant innovator who mastered the technique\u00a0of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.generaleccentric.net\/?p=1847\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Christopher Chapman, 1927-2015<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[102,14],"tags":[19],"class_list":["post-1847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","category-photography-design","tag-eric-aldwinckle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.generaleccentric.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.generaleccentric.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.generaleccentric.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.generaleccentric.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.generaleccentric.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1847"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.generaleccentric.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1851,"href":"https:\/\/blog.generaleccentric.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1847\/revisions\/1851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.generaleccentric.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.generaleccentric.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.generaleccentric.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}