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In a companion book to the movie,
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a step-by-step guide to "The Prince of Egypt's"
groundbreaking animated sequences.

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young son Rameses in her water garden, discovers a basket floating on the Nile.

SUZANNE CHESSLER

Special to The Jewish News

C

urious about the technology
and artistry of animation
that make the heroic won-
ders of The

Prince of Egypt

seem so com-
pelling?
Read Charles
Solomon's The Prince

ofEg)pt: A New
Vision in Animation

($45), published this
month by Harry N.
Abrams Inc. The
book, filled with hun-
dreds of full-color
illustrations, takes
readers step by step
through the making
of the film and shows
how each scene was
constructed.

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"I've been writing about animation
for a long time, but I've never done a
book on one specific film before," says
Solomon, whose earlier projects include

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Enchanted Drawings: The History of
Animation (1989) and The Disney That
Never Was (1995).

"Animation is
essentially a medium
of caricature, observ-
ing human or animal
movement and exag-
gerating it. The carica-
turing on this film is
more subtle, dealing
with emotional situa-
tions that are very
intense. It required a
lot of innovative work
and sensitivity to the
audience.
Solomon, an
nternationally
known historian
and animation cric-

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