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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.