# animate! › Films › Museum of Stolen Souls by Chris Elliott › all › synopses › direction & collaboration › full production credits › film stills › tools & processes › format & distribution › background material

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Discovery terms: 1990s animation, model animation, photographic animation, 2d animation, colonialism, museums, cultural dispossession, missionaries, experimental short film, filmmaker

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**Museum of Stolen Souls** a film by Chris Elliott

1993, 6 min 56 sec

![Museum of Stolen Souls, still](https://animate.org.uk/stillslarge/museumofstolensouls01.jpg)

### animate! synopsis

Face it, the objects have lives. From missionary madness to museum piece, the ‘history’ of rainforest peoples goes under the lens. Time to give it back…

### short synopsis

Christian Evangelism has had, and still has, much involvement in the ‘history making’ of rainforest cultures.

**Museum of Stolen Souls** uses 2-D, model and photo animation to depict ruthless missionary activity, past and present, and to raise questions of how and why objects came to be removed from their cultural sources.

### key credits

**director**
Chris Elliott

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**actor**
Mark Ashby

**dubbing mixer**
Peter Brooks

### Chris Elliott

### a film by Chris Elliott

### direction

**director**
Chris Elliott

### cast in picture

**actor**
Mark Ashby

### voice-over

### sound personnel

**dubbing mixer**
Peter Brooks

### production personnel

**technical support**
Gerald Conn

### support

**special thanks**
Technicolor

**primary funding**
Arts Council of Englan/Channel Four Animate! award

© Chris Elliott 1993

[![Museum of Stolen Souls, still](https://animate.org.uk/stillslarge/museumofstolensouls01.jpg)](https://animate.org.uk/stillsfull/museumofstolensouls01.jpg)

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[![Museum of Stolen Souls, still](https://animate.org.uk/stillslarge/museumofstolensouls02.jpg)](https://animate.org.uk/stillsfull/museumofstolensouls02.jpg)

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### technical

#### process summary

**Museum of Stolen Souls** uses 2-D, model and photo animation to depict ruthless missionary activity.

### master copy format

**colour or black & white**
colour

### video distribution format

**video format**
BetaSP

**screen aspect ratio**
4:3

**video standard**
PAL

**sound type**

### distributor

LUX
[info@lux.org.uk](mailto:info@lux.org.uk)
+44 (0)20 7503 3980
[www.lux.org.uk](http://www.lux.org.uk/)

**Museum of Stolen Souls** film, stills and other materials © Chris Elliott 1993