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@animation-appreciation-education
Hello everyone - thought I’d check in just to see if this blog is still kickin’ - and it is, somewhat! My apologies again for kinda pulling a Harry and the Hendersons with it, my interests (and time) are elsewhere now. I’m glad people are still enjoying the posts and films. I posted some random stuff from my drafts, why not. Thanks for all your interest and support over the years! I appreciated (and still do appreciate) it!
Снежная королева (The Snow Queen) 1957 Soviet Union Lev Atamanov
animated gals - Lily Alice in Wonderland
Jul. 26th, 1951 USA Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske
filed under: USA, 1950s
animated gals - The Lake Goddess 孔雀公主 / Kong que gong zhu (The Peacock Princess)
1963 China Jin Xi
filed under: China, 1960s, supernatural
Handling Ships
25 in x of animated feature film history Release: 1945 Country: UK Directors: Alan Crick, John Halas
“Handling Ships is the first feature length animated film in British history. Made by Halas and Batchelor (an animation company), the 70-minute stop-motion film was created at the request of the British Admiralty as a training aid for new navigators joining the Royal Navy.
After independent careers in animation, Joy Batchelor and Hungarian immigrant John Halas began working together in 1938, and founded Halas and Batchelor in 1940 to create war information and propaganda films. They were also married.
Approximately 70 films were created for the Ministry of Information, the War Office, and the Admiralty over the course of World War II; most of these were shorts intended to improve morale or spur on increased contributions to the war effort, such as Dustbin Parade (about recycling) and Filling the Gap (about gardening.) Halas and Batchelor also created a series of anti-fascist cartoons intended for viewing in the Middle East; starring an Arab boy named Abu, who was “enticed and misguided by the forces of Hitler and Mussolini.“ The heavy workload (at one point the studios were creating a minute-long short every three weeks) and minimal budgets meant that simple animations with economically driven stories were the norm.
Halas and Batchelor were approached by the Admiralty to create an instructional film. According to Halas, the intent was to ‘stop young people from driving a ship like it was a car.’ The film was not intended as a propaganda work, instead serving as a precise guide to manoeuvring and navigating ships, along with aspects of general ship handling and control. The feature was written, edited, and directed by Alan Crick, an animator with a naval background.
For Handling Ships, Halas and Batchelor used stop motion animation of three-dimensional ship models, along with schematic designs, to simplify the intricacies and vagaries of ship movement and educate the viewer. There was also some limited 2D animation. The film was never released to cinema chains, as Halas and Batchelor felt it was too specialized for and of limited appeal to general audiences, and it had no propaganda value.
The work proved the value of stop motion animation for instructional films, and the ability of the studio of Halas and Batchelor at making them, as they were said to have ‘extended the medium to explain complex ideas with clarity and humor’.
After the war, Handling Ships was entered in the 1946 Cannes Film Festival, where it was a short film ‘Official Selection’.”
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Handling Ships is not available online as far as I can tell. I did not have the ability to actually watch it.
Mickey’s Follies
10 in 15 of Mickey Mouse (1920s) Director: Ub Iwerks, Wilfred Jackson Country: USA Released: June 29th, 1929
“The animals in the barnyard are watching a series of short song and dance numbers performed by other barnyard animals, similar to the Ziegfeld Follies of the day. It opens with Mickey playing the piano with other animals. A series of other short song and dance numbers follow. The cartoon ends with Mickey giving a solo performance of his theme song, and Minnie saying her signature ‘Yoo-hoo.’”
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Mickey’s Follies is available on YouTube.
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西遊記 / Saiyûki (Alakazam the Great, or Journey to the West) Aug. 14th, 1960 Japan 薮下 泰司 (Taiji Yabushita), 白川 大作 (Daisaku Shirakawa)
Filed under: Japan, 1960s
animated gals - Briar Rose/Princess Aurora Sleeping Beauty
Jan. 29th, 1959 USA Clyde Geronimi, Les Clark, Eric Larson, Wolfgang Reitherman
filed under: USA, 1950s, royalty
The Fire Fighters
4 in 83 of Mickey Mouse (1930s) animated short film history Director: Burt Gillett Country: USA Released: Jun. 25th, 1930
“Mickey is the fire chief of a fire department which receives an alarm in the middle of the night. The group of fire fighters race to the blaze engulfing a seven-story building, but on the way the engine loses its water tank. Mickey saves Minnie, trapped on the top floor, by way of a clothes line connected with another building.”
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The Fire Fighters is available on YouTube.
FIRST POSTED: 6/25/2018
The Fox Chase
22 in 26 of the Oswald the Lucky Rabbit series animated short film history Release: Jun. 25th, 1928 Country: USA Director: Walt Disney
“Oswald is with his mates in a fox hunt, but he finds his horse is stubborn and won’t let him ride at first. Meanwhile, the sly fox outwits the dogs and riders in pursuit at every turn.”
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The Fox Chase is available on YouTube.
UPDATED: 6/27/18
animated gals - Queen Titania Sen noci svatojánské (A Midsummer Night’s Dream)
Sep. 25th, 1959 Czechoslovakia Jiří Trnka
filed under: Czechoslovakia, 1950s, royalty, supernatural
Willy McBean and His Magic Machine
116 in x of animated feature film history Release: Jun. 23rd, 1965 Country: USA Director: Arthur Rankin, Jr., Kizo Nagashima
“This film was produced by Rankin/Bass Productions in the United States and Dentsu Motion Pictures in Japan.
Willy McBean is sick of trying to learn history for school. Meanwhile, an evil scientist called Rasputin Von Rotten is building a magical time machine so he can go back in time and be the most famous person in history. A Spanish-English talking monkey named Pablo climbs through Willy’s window. He explains that he escaped from Von Rotten and he tells Willy what he is planning to do. Pablo stole the plans to the time machine.
Willy builds his own machine to go back in time to stop Von Rotten. They arrive in the Wild West, where they meet Buffalo Bill Cody and his Indian pal, Sitting Bull. Von Rotten plans to become the fastest gun in the west. Von Rotten asks Bill for a showdown, but both guns are sabotaged before anyone can be shot.
Von Rotten moves onto his next target, Christopher Columbus. Once there, disguised as a Chinese trader, he convinces Columbus’s crew that they should mutiny. Once more McBean and Pablo stop the evil professor by showing the crew that land is not far off.
After that, Von Rotten goes back to England in the days of King Arthur in the kingdom of Camelot, but Pablo and Willy get Arthur to pull Excalibur the magic sword that can talk. A talking green dragon then crashes into Camelot in an effort to eat everyone, but King Arthur and Excalibur are able to drive him away.
Willy and Pablo later go to Ancient Egypt to stop Von Rotten from building the Great Pyramid, but the duo reach Ancient Rome on the way. Then they go back to prehistoric times to encourage cavemen to invent fire and the wheel before Von Rotten. Willy and the Professor make amends.
As they return to the present, Von Rotten shows the students history through his magic machine (in the form of a movie projector) during history class.”
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Willy McBean and His Magic Machine is available on YouTube.
FIRST POSTED: 12/23/16
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Sleeping Beauty Jan. 29th, 1959 USA Clyde Geronimi, Les Clark, Eric Larson, Wolfgang Reitherman
Filed under: USA, 1950s
The Reluctant Dragon
15 in x of animated feature film history Release: Jun. 20th, 1941 Country: USA Director: Alfred Werker, Hamilton Luske
“The Reluctant Dragon is essentially a tour of the then-new Walt Disney Studios facility in Burbank, California. Most of the film is live-action, with four short animated segments inserted into the running time: a black-and-white segment featuring Casey Junior from Dumbo; and three Technicolor cartoons: Baby Weems, Goofy’s How to Ride a Horse, and the extended-length short The Reluctant Dragon, based upon Kenneth Grahame’s book of the same name.
The film stars radio comedian Robert Benchley as a man touring through the Disney studios with the intent of sharing a movie idea with Walt, the titular The Reluctant Dragon. After finally finding him, however, he sees that Disney’s already made the film––the story of a shy, fun-loving dragon who agrees to fake a fight with knight Sir Giles.
Many Disney staffers such as Ward Kimball,Fred Moore, Norman Ferguson, Clarence Nash, and Walt Disney, all appear in the film as themselves.
Most of the ‘animators’ shown in the film were actually actors hired to portray animators. And this film, showing the Disney animation studios as a happy, coherent family, was released at the worst possible moment, when half of the actual animators went out on strike. The strikers frequently picketed theaters showing the film, sometimes holding up a large cardboard sign depicting Walt Disney as a dragon, labeled 'The Reluctant Disney.’
In the sound effects department, the workers are shown creating sound effects for a piece of film with the train Casey Junior. Casey would pop up in Disney’s next film, Dumbo (1941). Likewise in the art department, the animators are making sketches for "Dumbo”. Some of the maquettes shown are from early versions of Peter Pan (1953) and Lady and the Tramp (1955). Bambi also makes a minor appearance in this film.
According to supplemental information on the DVD, this film was rushed into production to help keep the studio solvent. The start of WW2 closed Europe to American movies and this cut off much needed revenue for Disney. When it was released it did save the studio but it was not well received and was heavily criticized by the public who were expecting a full animated feature.“
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太郎さんの汽車 (Taro’s Toy Train)
4 in 18 of the works of Yasuji Murata animated short film history Release: Jun. 18th, 1929 Country: Japan Director: 村田安司 (Yasuji Murata)
“Taro-san is a little boy who loves to play train with his friends. One day, his dad brings him home an electric train set. Overjoyed, he plays with it long into the night. When it is finally time for bed, Taro cuddles up next to his new train set, and dreams he is on a train with many funny animals who cause various wacky hijinks.”
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Taro’s Toy Train is available online.
UPDATED: 6/19/18
Thelma D. Witmer
Background artist
Born: Jun. 18th, 1901 Died: Jul. 12th, 1996
“Thelma Witmer was one of the only ranking Disney female artists in the golden age of animation, along with Mary Blair. She painted backgrounds in the shorts division from 1944-60. She also painted backgrounds in Cinderella, Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan, Lady and the Tramp, Sleeping Beauty, and The Jungle Book. She also worked on The Mickey Mouse Club and other Disney TV projects.”
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Animation art from Disney’s THE JUNGLE BOOK (1967).
