Drawn-on-film Animation - Animators and Films

Animators and Films

• In 1912, Italian Futurists Arnaldo Ginna and Bruno Corra discuss their nine abstract films (now lost) in their text Abstract Cinema – Chromatic Music.
• In 1916, American concert pianist Mary Hallock-Greenewalt produced hand-painted film strips, possibly intended for projection in her color organ, Sarabet.
• In 1926 Man Ray created Emak Bakia, which includes sequences made by exposing film directly to light.
• In 1935 Len Lye created the first direct film screened to a general audience, a promotion for the British General Post Office entitled A Colour Box aswell as his movie "Kaleidoscope". Lye and Norman McLaren produced hand-painted films for John Grierson in the GPO Film Unit. Lye went on to create direct films in New York.
• Beginning in 1941, McLaren continued this work at the National Film Board of Canada (NFB), founding the NFB's animation unit. NFB direct films created or co-created by McLaren include Boogie-Doodle (1941), Hen Hop (1942), Begone Dull Care (1949) and Blinkity Blank (1955).
• In 1946, Harry Smith produced hand-painted films in San Francisco which screened at the Art in Cinema series at the San Francisco Museum of Art.
• In 1970, José Antonio Sistiaga exhibited the first feature-length hand-painted film, the silent epic ... era erera baleibu izik subua aruaren ..., in Madrid.
• Stan Brakhage, Mothlight (1963)
• Harry Everett Smith, Profile, Filmography, Bibliography
• Pierre Hébert, Memories of War (1982)
• Cathy Joritz, Negative Man (2 min, 1985)
• Cathy Joritz, "Give AIDS the Freeze" (1 min)
• Bärbel Neubauer
• Richard R. Reeves,www.flickerfilms.ca
• Jürgen Reble / Schmelzdahin
• Wes Southern
• Heide StrangeSky, "Revolver" (2002, 8 min) or "VooDoo Vex" (2001, 4 min)
• Steven Woloshen produced and directed Ditty Dot Comma (2001, 3 min).