Category Archives: Animata Didattica

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Animata Didattica, History of Animation

History of Animation 2017-2018: Lesson 6 – Videos

Food (Jídlo, Jan Švankmajer, 1993)

Night on Bald Mountain (Une nuit sur le Mont Chauve, Alexander Alexeïeff, Claire Parker, 1933)

Here and the Great Elsewhere – Michèle Lemieux and the Secret of Pinscreen (Making of)

An example of machinema.

Pierre Jaquet-Droz, the writing automaton (1774)

Reconstruction of movement as suggested by some Paleolithic cave paintings

The “wheel of life”, a magic lantern slide (1871)

Pauvre Pierrot (Èmile Reynaud, 1892)

Autour d’une cabine (Èmile Reynaud, 1893)

A reconstruction of Reynaud’s show

Animata Didattica, History of Animation

History of Animation 2017-2018: Lesson 5 – Videos

Carmen Habanera (Aleksandra Korejwo, 1994)

The Old Man and the Sea (Aleksandr Petrov, 1999)

Making of The Old Man and the Sea, Part 1

Making of The Old Man and the Sea, Part 2

Pulcinella (Giulio Gianini, Emanuele Luzzati, 1973)

A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Sen noci svatojánské, Jiří Trnka, 1959) [fragment].

Allegro non troppo – Firebird episode (Bruno Bozzetto, 1977)

Interstellar Lego Trailer (CBL Animation, 2014)

The Black Hole (Gary Nelson, 1979) – Title sequence

Young Sherlock Holmes (Barry Levinson, 1985) – The stained glass knight

Animata Didattica, History of Animation

History of Animation 2017-2018: Lesson 4 – Videos

Trolley Troubles (Walt Disney, 1927)

Walt Disney’s Multiplane Camera

The Thief and the Cobbler (Richard Williams, 1993)

Prologue trailer (Richard Williams, 2015)

Behind the Animation: Get a Horse

Snow-White (Dave Fleischer, 1933)

The Goddess of Spring (Wilfred Jackson, 1934)

Gulliver’s Travels (Max and Dave Fleischer, 1939)

“The World of Stainboy”, Episode 1 (Tim Burton, 2000)

Animata Didattica, History of Animation

History of Animation 2017-2018: Lesson 3 – Videos

From Fantasia 2000 (Eric Goldberg et al., 1999)

From Howl’s Moving Castle (Hayao Miyazaki, 2004)

From Idiots and Angels (Bill Plympton, 2009)

Sea Scouts (Dick Lundy, 1939)

From Tangled (Nathan Greno, Byron Howard, 2010)

From “Black Rock Shooter” (Shinobu Yoshioka, 2012)