Category Archives: Animata Didattica

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History of Animation

Lessons 8-9: videos

Newman Laugh-O-Grams (Walt Disney, 1920-21)

Two of a Trade (Paul Terry, 1922)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyiVQ4jfBhs

Little Red Riding Hood (Walt Disney, 1922)

Alice’s Wonderland (Walt Disney, 1923)

Alice Solves the Puzzle (Walt Disney, 1925)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFGqZUTqorU

Steamboat Willie (Walt Disney, 1928)

The Skeleton Dance (Walt Disney, 1929)

Education for Death: The Making of the Nazi (Clyde Geronimi, 1943)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5eCRCzji4E

Make Mine Music (Jack Kinney et al., 1946)

History of Animation

Lesson 7: videos

Dream of a Rarebit Fiend (Edwin S. Porter, 1906)

Little Nemo (Winsor McCay, 1911)

How a Mosquito Operates (Winsor McCay, 1912)

Gertie (Winsor McCay, 1914)

The Sinking of the Lusitania (Winsor McCay, 1918)

The Artist’s Dream (John Randolph Bray, 1913)

Policy and Pie (Gregory La Cava, 1918)

Comin’ Thro’ the Rye (Dick Huemer, 1926)

Felix Dines and Pines (Otto Messmer, 1927)

History of Animation

Lesson 6: videos

Fragment of The Haunted Hotel; or, The Strange Adventures of a Traveler (Vitagraph of America, James Stuart Blackton, 1907)

L’Auberge ensorcelée (Georges Méliès, 1897)

L’Auberge du bon repos (Georges Méliès, 1903)

El hotel eléctrico (Segundo de Chomón, 1908)

The enchanted drawing (James Stuart Blackton, 1900)

Humorous Phases of Funny Faces (James Stuart Blackton, 1906)

Matches: An Appeal (Arthur Melbourne Cooper, 1899)

Fantasmagorie (Émile Cohl, 1908)

Clair de Lune Espagnol (Émile Cohl, 1909)

Le retapeur de cervelles (Émile Cohl, 1910)

Le cheveu délateur (Émile Cohl, 1911)
 

 

History of Animation

Lesson 5: videos

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

History of Animation

Lesson 4: 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

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.