Don Figlozzi (1909-81), spent the first half of his career in animation and the second half at the New York Daily News, , where his cartoons, signed “Fig,” became a fixture (see sample below). In between, he briefly worked for the newspaper’s TV station, WPIX, as a pioneer in a field that became known as broadcast [...]
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Don Figlozzi, the First TV Animator?
December 25th, 2010 · 4 Comments · Television animation, Television broadcasting, Television history and criticism
Tags: Broadcast design·Don Figlozzi·Motion graphics·New York Daily News·WPIX-TV
Film Histories, Part 1
September 1st, 2010 · No Comments · Animation history and criticism, Film history and criticism, Television history and criticism
This is the first in a series of posts in which I will evaluate some of the one-volume histories of film in English. Nominally, it will be from my perspective of their suitability of their use in the classroom, particularly those I teach on the undergraduate and graduate level at the Savannah College of Art [...]
Tags: Film history textbooks
EmmyTVLegends.org Launched
September 15th, 2009 · No Comments · Filmmakers, Producers, Television history and criticism
The Academy of Television Arts iand Sciences’ Archive of American Television has launched EmmyTVLegends.org website, which aims to put its voluminous collection of over 600 video interviews with “with the pioneers and legends of [ American]television.” The site, which uses YouTube to host the interviews, represents a second try for the Archives, which according to [...]
Tags: American television history·Archives of American Television·EmmyTVLegends.Org·Sid Casear·tBill Melendez