I was rummaging through the cabinets in the studio today and came
across these old video cassettes. It's a series of videos by John
Halas called '
Masters of Animation: The World's Best Animation'.
I
felt the need to talk about the collection here a little bit because it
could prove useful in independent animation studies. Each volume in
the series features a number of independent animated films from several
nations, including the USA, Canada, Japan, the former USSR, the United
Kingdom, Yugoslavia, Hungary, France, Italy and Poland. Some of these
shorts and features he talks about, I have seen before such as
Hedgehog in the Fog,
Animal Farm and
Dojoji Temple.
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Hedgehog in the Fog - Yuriv Norshteyn - USSR - 1975 |
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Dojoji Temple - Kihachiro Kawamoto - Japan - 1976 |
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Illusion - Frederic Back - Canada - 1975 |
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The Little Western - Witold Giersz - Poland - 1960 |
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Asterix in Britain - Atelier Gaumont - France - 1986 |
As you can see, there is a wide
range of experimental styles that can be appreciated in this
collection. I'm thinking of basing my dissertation on independent
animation in Japan, considering the material produced in this area tends
to be overlooked just as much as anywhere else, especially with the
huge saturation of Anime style cartooning in the market.
The
series was first published in 1987 but it is available on DVD in four
volumes as far as I know. There's more details about it in this link,
and I highly recommend checking this out.
http://www.1worldfilms.com/1world/mastersofanimation.htm
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