The Nitrate Film Interest Group of the Association of Moving Image Archivists‘ has a Flicker site where archivists post frame scans (and clips) of unidentified films. The above "frame scan is from the end of the film when the audience realizes that Krazy has been eating his furniture in his sleep." David Bordwell recently noted [...]
Entries Tagged as 'History and criticism'
Do You Know This Krazy Kat?
December 14th, 2008 · No Comments · Animation studios, Filmmakers, History and criticism, Short films
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Émile Cohl: L’inventeur du dessin animé
June 16th, 2008 · No Comments · Books, DVDs, History and criticism
Currently, there is an almost total lack of films by Émile Cohl, the pioneer French animator, who also worked in the United States, available in on DVD; I know of two DVDs that I that have his seminal Fantasmagorie (1908), which is often seen as the first fully animated film to explore the artistic possibilities [...]
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Bill Everson: Terminal film buff
March 22nd, 2008 · 1 Comment · History and criticism
My previous post, in which I discussed the role played by William K. Everson and the Theodore Huff Memorial Film Society, spurred me to dig out this interview I did with Everson for an April 1973 issue of The New York Herald, a short-lived weekly newspaper. For more on Everson, check out the Wikepedia bio, [...]
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Recovered Memories
March 19th, 2008 · No Comments · Filmmakers, History and criticism
I have always been intrigued by what may be called the prehistory of cinema and animation studies. It is not uncommon to look back on the history of film criticism and history to look mainly at books and magazines, of which there were precious few dealing with film in the US through the 1950s. However, [...]
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Annie Awards Make History
February 12th, 2008 · No Comments · Filmmakers, History and criticism, Producers
Perhaps historical would be a better word. I’m not talking about the winners in the competitive voting for ASIFA-Hollywood‘s Annie Awards proper (listed here), but rather for the juried awards, including the June Foray and Winsor McCay Awards. What was startling was the fact that three of these honors went to animation historians: Jerry Beck [...]
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