Posts Tagged ‘animation’
Rock-A-Doodle (Don Bluth, 1991)
September 6, 2009Din of Celestial Birds (E. Elias Merhige, 2006)
May 13, 200915 min
Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs (1943)
March 23, 2009USA, 7 min
… swingin’!
Merrie Melodies cartoon by Bob Clampett of Looney Tunes fame.
An all-black parody of the Brothers Grimm fairy tale Snow-White (known to its audience from the popular 1937 Walt Disney animated feature Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs). Notorious for being one of the “Censored Eleven”: eleven Schlesinger/Warner Bros. cartoons produced at the height of the Golden Age of Hollywood animation based on racist humor.
Clampett is responsible for some important early animation work with Chuck Jones, et al., in the early…
the Secret Adventures of Tom Thumb (Dave Borthwick, 1993)
February 17, 2009UK, 61 min
First major production for Bristol-based animation studio bolexbrothers, combining 3-D model animation with the use of pixilation – the technique of animating human actors frame by frame.
Fritz the Cat (Ralph Bakshi, 1972)
February 12, 2009USA, 78 min
Psychedelic, irreverent, adults-only animated film based on underground artist Robert Crumb’s cartoon of ultra-hip cat. Cult favorite for its cynical look at ’60s counterculture. Entertaining for those who lived through era. — reel.com
Bakshi‘s feature film debut. His three major films from this late ’60s/ early ’70s period are each pretty raw, highly personal, and controversial. (I’ve now only Heavy Traffic left to see from this era, and I’m expecting it to be the best of the lot.)
les Astronautes (Walerian Borowczyk & Chris Marker, 1959)
February 4, 2009
Coonskin (Ralph Bakshi, 1975)
January 20, 2009also released as Street Fight and Bustin’ Out
USA, 100 min
