The Four Poster (1952 film)

The Four Poster is a 1952 American comedy-drama film directed by Irving Reis and starring Rex Harrison and Lilli Palmer.^[1] It is an adaptation of Jan de Hartog's 1951 play The Fourposter.

The Four Poster
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Irving Reis
Screenplay by	Jan de Hartog Allan Scott
Based on	The Fourposter by Jan de Hartog
Produced by	Stanley Kramer
Starring	Rex Harrison Lilli Palmer
Cinematography	Hal Mohr
Edited by	Henry Batista
Music by	Dimitri Tiomkin
Production company	The Stanley Kramer Company
Distributed by	Columbia Pictures
Release date	October 8, 1952 (1952-10-08)
Running time	103 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

While it is a live-action film, The Four Poster features animation by the studio United Productions of America (UPA). The animation was directed by John Hubley, and was his last project before leaving UPA and founding his independent studio Storyboard, Inc.^[2]

In Yugoslavia, The Four Poster's animation became one of the key influences on the foundation of the Zagreb School of Animated Films. Director Dušan Vukotić had come across an article about UPA's films in Graphis at an English bookstore in Zagreb. Around the same time, The Four Poster arrived in the country in "a batch of American feature films sent for possible sale to Yugoslavia", according to researcher Ronald Holloway. Vukotić and others studied the film's animation, which also gave them a greater understanding of the still images in Graphis. As a result, the team began to explore design-focused limited animation at Zagreb Film.^[3]