Category Archives: History of Animation

History of Animation 2015-16: Lesson 1 – Videos

Duck Amuck (Chuck Jones, 1953)

Duck Amuck on… framing and layout

Duck Amuck on… sound

Duck Amuck on… sound (again)

Duck Amuck on… the grammar of cinema

Duck Amuck on… the nature of cinema

Duck Amuck on… the “author”

Lesson 19: videos

The Great Adventure of Hols, Prince of the Sun (Taiyo no Ouji Horusu no Daibouken, Isao Takahata, 1968; trailer)

Kaze no Tani no Naushika (Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, Hayao Miyazaki, 1984; trailer)

Tenkū no Shiro Rapyuta (Castle in the Sky, Hayao Miyazaki, 1986; trailer)

Tonari no Totoro (My Neighbour Totoro, Hayao Miyazaki, 1988; trailer)

Hotaru no Haka (Grave of the Fireflies, Isao Takahata, 1988; trailer)

Lesson 18: videos

Akira (Katsuhiro Ōtomo, 1988; trailer)

Sennen Joyū (Millennium Actress, Satoshi Kon, 2001; trailer)

Kōkaku Kidōtai (Ghost in the Shell, Mamoru Oshii, 1995; trailer)

Toki o Kakeru Shōjo (The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, Mamoru Hosoda, 2006)

Summer Wars (Mamoru Hosoda, 2009)

Lesson 17: videos

Princess Iron Fan (Wan Brothers, 1941)

Zhu Baizhe Eats the Watermelon (Wan Guchan, 1958)

Confusion in the Sky (Wan Laiming, 1961 and 1964)

Three Monks (A Da, 1980)

Master Jiang and the Six Kingdoms (Li Wei, Pei Fei, 2016)

The Matsumoto Fragment (1907?)

Namakura Katana: Hanawa Hekonai Meitō no Maki (Jun’ichi Kōuchi, 1917; fragment)

Kokka Kimigayo (Noburō Ōfuji, 1931)

Kuro nyago (Noburō Ōfuji, 1929)

Momotarō Umi no Shinpei (Mitsuyo Seo, 1945)

Hakujaden (Taiji Yabushita, 1958)

“Astroboy” (Osamu Tezuka, 1963)

Broken Down Film (Osamu Tezuka, 1985)

Daicon III Opening Animation (Hideaki Anno, Hiroyuki Tamaga, Takami Akai, 1981)