A is for Atom is a 1952 (released in 1953) educational cartoon explaining the wonders and mysteries of atomic power, sponsored by General Electric and directed by Carl Urbano (who later went on to work for Hanna & Barbara). Like the more well known and widely distributed Our Friend the Atom , a longer, part live action, part animated, 1957 film from Disney, this was basically an indoctrination for school children as to why…
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After spending much of her career in the animation industry, working for companies like Walt Disney Feature Animation and Hanna Barbara Allison Proulx has turned her attention to gallery painting. She studied at Rhode Island School of Design and Art Center College of Design and worked briefly as a freelance illustrator before entering the animation...
In 2007, you’ll recall Madame Tutli Putli ’s disturbing and effective use of live action eyes composited onto the animated puppets. A few years earlier, British filmmaker Lizzie Oxby combined stop-motion animation, live action performance (placing a live action head on a stop-mo puppet) and digital effects for her film Extn. 21 . The...
Animation can be used to inform, educate, advertise and express emotions just as live action can by using the same techniques; such as the use of colour, film language and sound. The NSPCC advert by Russell Brooke on television is a good example of how animation can be more effective than live action. There is no limit to how much a situation or an...
When I heard the news that Art Linkletter had passed away , I didn’t think that was something to mention on Cartoon Brew. But the more I thought about it, the more I realized I was wrong. Mr. Linkletter was one of the most popular TV hosts of the 1950s and 60s. He was a personal friend of Walt Disney’s, and co-hosted the opening ceremonies...
The “Go, Diego, Go!” television series is touted as being highly educational for the pre-school age group, of children ages two to four. In summary, the series revolves around eight year old Diego who, accompanied by his friend ‘Baby Jaguar’, goes around rescuing all kinds of animals that find themselves in some kind of trouble....
Get Him to the Greek is a live-action film that will be released in a few days. I don’t know anything about the film, but they’ve got this entertaining animated commercial to promote the film. Anybody know the credits for this spot? They deserve some recognition. And why doesn’t the movie studio have a nice version of this spot...
Disney has just announced that it will theatrically release Goro Miyazaki’s Tales from Earthsea (Gedo Senki) in the US on August 13th under its Touchstone Pictures banner. This marks the second fully animated feature to be released under that label — the first being Tim Burton’s Nightmare Before Christmas ( Who Framed Roger Rabbit...
It’s becoming an annual tradition in Los Angeles – just as last year, the Cinefamily/Silent Movie Theatre on Fairfax Ave. is running the classic Lou Bunin stop motion/live action Alice In Wonderland . Made in 1949, but released in 1951, the film was originally suppressed by Disney for fear of its potential upstaging of their own animated...
Our special series “The Modern Art of Gene Deitch” continues this week with Depth Study , a 1957 sales film for CBS Television. The film is a rarely seen masterpiece of modern design. Deitch said in the book Cartoon Modern that the film represents, “Cliff Roberts at his absolute peak of film design for me.” The film’s...
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