experimental and early animation: artist-as-inventor
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Experimental and Early Animation:
Artist-as-Inventor
Zoetrope• Invented in 1834 by
William Horner. • Called the “Daedalum”
('the wheel of the devil) and also the Praxinoscope.
• Popular in the U.S. from the 1860s
• Generally seen in amusement park arcades
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rmoAWgn7BIhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhDBGFFrmUI
Conventional Film c. 1915-1940
• D.W. Griffith: Birth of a Nation (1915)– http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9UPOkIpR0A
• Charlie Chaplin: Modern Times (1936)– http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYbsBcPDVQM
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Experimental Film
• Sergei Eisenstein: Battleship Potemkin (1925)– http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J74IKt8rxkQ
• Dziga Vertov: The Man with the Movie Camera (1929)– http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AInQ1x5_r3o
Avant Garde Film 1920s•Marcel Duchamp:
Anemic Cinema (1926)–http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXINTf8kXCc
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• Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali: Un Chien Andalou (1929)
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Experimental Animation
Hans Richter:
• Rhythmus 21 (1921)– http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhv2KpQGMqY
• Filmstudie (1926)– http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRYepu7Iqng
• 8x8: A Chess Sonata (1957)– http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ml4WA16Eo28
Experimental Film and Animation
Len Lye• A Color Box (1935)
– http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3y1offmJ4Y– An advertisement for cheaper parcel post!
• Free Radicals (1958)– http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGyVYDseGc4
Experimental Meets Mainstream
Max & Dave Fleischer– http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpdMnLx0Npg
• Minnie the Moocher (1932)– http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaZOXF83zBg