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Student Production If you are making a student film or video, you’ll abbreviate the traditional production process in a way that ...

assistant works quickly, then the scene proceeds ahead to the checking department, and so on in the process. At any given time, ...

Exercises Rent some old silent films like Laurel and Hardy or Charlie Chaplin. What did you learn? Find a story that migrated f ...

CHAPTER 2 The History of Animation 13 Beginnings There are those who claim animation goes back as far as cave drawings that flic ...

made animated films in 1910 by painting directly onto the film itself. In the United States, Winsor McCay made his first animate ...

short that included sound:Dinner Time. Paul Terry and Frank Moser’s studio, Terrytoons, later made cartoons with Mighty Mouse, H ...

style was born with Gold Diggers of ’49. Frank Tashlin contributed to the Warner Bros. style with his interest in camera angles, ...

UPA was sold to Henry G. Saperstein, who made low-budget television cartoons in the early 1960s before the studio finally closed ...

Hanna-Barbera Productions. Hanna-Barbera trained animators around the world to help with their vast production needs, and in tur ...

Games became a big business worldwide. Ralph H. Baer conceived the idea of interac- tive games that could be played on a TV set ...

Wet Paint, Rumble,andPlay Pen. James Whitney made outstanding, nonobjective films including Yantra, Dwija, Wu Ming, Kang Jing Xi ...

strong created The Clown and His Donkey in 1910. During World War I satirical illustrators and comic strip artists made films la ...

collaboration with another Australian, writer Stan Hayward. Hayward has also collaborated with Dunning, Williams, and with Halas ...

studios like Rainbow Animation S.R.L. and Mondo-TV produced animated series. RAI financially supports Italian projects animated ...

by the major studios. French television ORTF funded many French animation projects, including those of Laguionie and Jacques Rou ...

Victor Bergdahl animated his comic strips in Sweden from 1915 to 1930, and several other Swedish animators turned out films duri ...

The first animated film made in Czechoslovakia, now the Czech Republic, was Karel Dodal’s puppet film The Lantern’s Secretin 193 ...

a graphic style with the limited animation, often using collages and assemblages. Most of these early films were serious films w ...

wasn’t until the 1990s that they began to take over children’s TV in the United States. By the early part of the twenty-first ce ...

may well have been the earliest pioneers of cinema. Modern-day animation began in China with the four Wan brothers. From their f ...