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The following phone interview with Brad Bird at Warner Bros. Feature Animation on Monday, October 27, 1997. It was one of a series of brief interviews I did for a story for The Hollywood Reporter and/or Animation Magazine. When I talked to Bird, The Iron Giant was just getting into animation and there was considerable [...]

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The Los Angeles-based iotaCenter, an organization “devoted to Abstract Cinema and Visual Music,” now has a YouTube channel where a number of otherwise unavailable films can be seen. These include Len Lye’s pioneering experiment in cameraless animation: A Colour Box; this was his first film in which he painted directly onto film, a technique process [...]

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