Black piano used by George Pal in the 1947 animated film Date with Duke. This film is a humorous short featuring Duke Ellington performing and in conversation about jazz style with a number of Puppetoon characters.
George Pal was one of the pioneers of stop-frame animation, a painstaking process achieved by moving figures and shooting each change on a single frame of film in a series of progressive steps. For each frame shot, the head, arms, and legs of the figures were changed according to the motions needed to create the illusion of movement.
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