When: Monday/Wednesday 1:00 - 2:50 pm
Where: CFA 112
Instructor: Dave Pape
e-mail: depape@buffalo.edu
Office: CFA 250
Office hours: Wed 12-1pm; Tues/Thurs 1-2pm
FinalExam.txt - some info on the final
| Topic | Films viewed | Reading assignment | Links & recommended reading | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 Aug | Course Intro | Raoul Barre. The Phable of a Busted Romance. 1916
International Film Service. Krazy Kat - Bugologist. 1916 Pat Sullivan / Otto Messmer. Felix in Roameo. 1927 Frank Tashlin. Nasty Quacks. 1945 John Lasseter, Pixar. Luxo, Jr. 1986 | ||
| 29 Aug | Origins of animation | J. Stuart Blackton. The Enchanted Drawing. 1900
J. Stuart Blackton. Humorous Phases of Funny Faces. 1906 Emile Cohl. Fantasmagorie. 1908 Emile Cohl. Mobilier fidele. 1910 Emile Cohl. The Hasher's Delirium. 1910 Winsor McCay. Little Nemo. 1911 Winsor McCay. How a Mosquito Operates. 1912 | Donald Crafton, Before Mickey, Chapter 3: Emile Cohl | Origins of American Animation, 1900-1921 |
| 5 Sep | Winsor McCay | Winsor McCay. Gertie the Dinosaur. 1914
Winsor McCay. The Sinking of the Lusitania. 1918 Winsor McCay. The Centaurs. c1918-21 Winsor McCay. Bug Vaudeville. c1921 Winsor McCay. The Flying House. c1921 John Canemaker. Remembering Winsor McCay. 1976 | Leonard Maltin, Of Mice and Magic, Chapter 1: The Silent Era | John Canemaker. Winsor McCay: His Life and Art (2005) |
| 10 Sep | 1910s & '20s | Earl Hurd. Their Master's Voice. 1921?
Pat Sullivan / Otto Messmer. Feline Follies. 1919 Frank Moser. Down the Mississippi. 1920 Raoul Barre. The Phable of a Phat Woman. 1916 Earl Hurd. Bobby Bumps Starts a Lodge. 1916 Pat Sullivan / Otto Messmer. Felix Saves the Day. 1922 Pat Sullivan / Otto Messmer. Arabiantics. 1928 Ladislas Starevitch. The Cameraman's Revenge. 1910 | ||
| 12 Sep | Starevich, O'Brien, & Reiniger | Ladislas Starevich. The Insects' Christmas. 1913
Ladislas Starevich. The Frogs Who Wanted a King. 1922 Ladislas Starevich. Voice of the Nightingale. 1923 Willis O'Brien. The Dinosaur and the Missing Link. 1915 Willis O'Brien. The Lost World effects excerpt. 1925 Lotte Reiniger. Carmen. 1933 Lotte Reiniger. Papageno. 1935 | Robert Russett & Cecile Starr. Experimental Animation, "Lotte Reiniger"
Giannalberto Bendazzi. Cartoons, "Ladislas Starevich", from chapter 3 | www.lottereiniger.de |
| 17 Sep | Lotte Reiniger | Lotte Reiniger. The Adventures of Prince Achmed. 1926
Lotte Reiniger. The Secret of the Marquise. 1921 The Art of Lotte Reiniger. 1970 | ||
| 19 Sep | 1920s - Fleischers & Disney | Fleischer Brothers. Tramp Tramp Tramp. 1932
Fleischer Brothers. Ko-Ko's Reward. 1929 Fleischer Brothers. Ko-Ko's Hot Ink. 1929 Disney. Steamboat Willie. 1928 Disney. The Gallopin' Gaucho. 1928 A Trip Through the Walt Disney Studios. 1938 | Frank Thomas, Ollie Johnson. Disney Animation: The Illusion of Life, Chapter 2 | |
| 24 Sep | Fleischers; Bartosch | Fleischer Brothers. Boop-Oop-A-Doop. 1932
Fleischer Brothers. Snow White. 1933 Fleischer Brothers. Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor. 1936 Fleischer Brothers. Bulleteers. 1941 Berthold Bartosch. L'Idee (The Idea). 1931 | Leslie Cabarga. The Fleischer Story (1988)
Fleischer cartoons on archive.org | |
| 26 Sep | Disney | Disney. Hawaiian Holiday. 1937
Disney. The Mail Pilot pencil test. 1933 Disney. Snow White, unfinished scene. 1937 Disney. Fantasia excerpt (Dance of the Hours, Night on Bald Mountain, Ave Maria). 1940 | Robert Russett & Cecile Starr. Experimental Animation, "Walter Ruttmann", "Viking Eggeling", "Oskar Fischinger"
William Moritz. Some Observations on Non-objective and Non-linear Animation | |
| 1 Oct | Early abstract animation | Hans Richter. Rhythmus 21. 1921
Hans Richter. Filmstudie. 1926 Hans Richter. Vormittagsspuk. 1928 Viking Eggeling. Diagonal Symphonie. 1924 Walter Ruttman. Lichtspiel Opus 1-41921 - 1925 Oskar Fischinger. Muratti Greift Ein. 1934 Oskar Fischinger. Spiritual Constructions. 1927 Oskar Fischinger. Studie Nr. 7. 1930 Oskar Fischinger. Studie Nr. 8. 1931 Oskar Fischinger. Kreise. 1933 Oskar Fischinger. Allegretto. 1943 Oskar Fischinger. Motion Painting No. 1. 1947 | www.ubu.com | |
| 3 Oct | Oskar Fischinger | Oskar Fischinger. Spirals. 1926
Oskar Fischinger. Studie Nr. 6. 1930 Oskar Fischinger. Liebesspiel. 1931 Disney. Fantasia excerpt (Bach Toccata & Fugue). 1940 | Barry Putterman. "A Short Critical History of Warner Bros. Cartoons"
Timothy R. White. "From Disney to Warner Bros.: The Critical Shift" Donald Crafton. "The View from Termite Terrace: Caricature and Parody..." | William Moritz. Optical Poetry: The Life and Work of Oskar Fischinger (2004)
www.oskarfischinger.org |
| 8 Oct | Oskar Fischinger; Warner Brothers | Oskar Fischinger. Radio Dynamics. 1942
Harman-Ising. Smile Darn Ya Smile. 1931 Tex Avery. The Wild Hare. 1940 Friz Freleng. Rhapsody in Rivets. 1941 Tex Avery. Thugs with Dirty Mugs. 1939 Bob Clampett. Kitty Kornered. 1946 Bob Clampett. The Big Snooze. 1946 Chuck Jones. The Dover Boys. 1942 Private Snafu: Booby Traps. 1944 | Kevin Sandler. Reading the Rabbit: Explorations in Warner Bros. Animation (1998)
Warner Bros. Cartoon Companion | |
| 10 Oct | Warner Brothers; Tex Avery @ MGM | Harman-Ising. Bosko the Talk-Ink Kid. 1929
Tex Avery. Hollywood Steps Out. 1941 Bob Clampett. Book Revue. 1945 Tex Avery. Blitz Wolf. 1942 Tex Avery. Dumb-Hounded. 1943 Tex Avery. Red Hot Riding Hood. 1943 Chuck Jones. What's Opera, Doc?. 1957 | Amid Amidi. "United Productions of America", from Cartoon Modern (2006) | Joe Adamson. Tex Avery, King of Cartoons (1975) |
| 15 Oct | UPA | Peter Burness. Magoo's Puddle Jumper. 1956
John Hubley. Robin Hoodlum. 1948 Tedd Parmelee. The Tell Tale Heart. 1953. Bobe Cannon. Gerald McBoing Boing. 1951. Bill Hurtz. A Unicorn in the Garden. 1953. John Hubley. Ragtime Bear. 1949. John Hubley. Rooty Toot Toot. 1951. Bobe Cannon. Madeline. 1952. | ||
| 17 Oct | UPA influence; John & Faith Hubley | Jay Ward, Bill Scott. Rocky and Bullwinkle: The Ruby Yacht of Omar Khayyam.
John & Faith Hubley. Moonbird. 1959 John & Faith Hubley. The Hole. 1962 John & Faith Hubley. Cockaboody. 1973 Faith Hubley. Cloudland. 1993 | Robert Russett & Cecile Starr. Experimental Animation, "Pioneers of Abstract Animation in America" | |
| 22 Oct | American Abstract Animators | Faith Hubley. W.O.W.: Women of the World. 1975
Mary Ellen Bute. Rhythm in Light. Mary Ellen Bute. Synchromy No. 2. Mary Ellen Bute. Parabola. Mary Ellen Bute. Escape. Mary Ellen Bute, Norman McLaren. Spook Sport. Mary Ellen Bute. Tarantella. Douglass Crockwell. Glens Falls Sequence. Douglass Crockwell. Simple Destiny Abstractions. Dwinell Grant. Composition No. 1: Themis. Dwinell Grant. Composition No. 2: Contrathemis. | ||
| 24 Oct | Norman McLaren | Francis Lee. 1941. 1941
Norman McLaren. Love on the Wing. 1939 Norman McLaren. NBC Valentine Greeting. 1940 Norman McLaren. Dots. 1940 Norman McLaren. Boogie-Doodle. 1948 Norman McLaren. Hen Hop. 1942 Norman McLaren. Begone Dull Care. 1949 | Robert Russett & Cecile Starr. Experimental Animation, "Norman McLaren"
William Moritz, "Norman McLaren and Jules Engel: Post-modernists". From Jayne Pilling, ed., A Reader in Animation Studies. | Terence Dobson. The Film Work of Norman McLaren (2007)
NFB website |
| 29 Oct | Norman McLaren | Norman McLaren. Le Merle. 1958
Norman McLaren. A Phantasy. 1952 Norman McLaren. Blinkity Blank. 1955 Norman McLaren. Lines Vertical (excerpt). 1960 Norman McLaren. Mosaic. 1965 Norman McLaren. Neighbours. 1952 Norman McLaren. A Chairy Tale. 1956 | ||
| 31 Oct | National Film Board | Norman McLaren Pas de Deux. 1968
Cordell Barker. The Cat Came Back. 1988 Caroline Leaf. The Owl Who Married a Goose. 1974 Caroline Leaf. The Metamorphosis of Mr. Samsa. 1977 Caroline Leaf. Two Sisters. 1990 | Thelma Schenkel, "Storytelling as Remembering: Picturing the Past in Caroline Leaf's The Street"
John Canemaker, "A Conversation with Caroline Leaf" | www.carolineleaf.com |
| 5 Nov | National Film Board | Richard Condie. Getting Started
Paul Driessen. Cat's Cradle. 1974 Paul Driessen. On Land, at Sea and in the Air. 1980 Paul Driessen. Spotting a Cow. 1984 Paul Driessen. Oh What a Knight. 1982 Paul Driessen. Sunny Side Up. 1985 Paul Driessen. The Train Gang. 1986 Paul Driessen. Getting There. 1986 Paul Driessen. The Writer. 1988 Paul Driessen. The End of the World in Four Seasons (excerpt). 1995 Chris Hinton. Blackfly. 1991 Chris Hinton. Flux. 2002 Chris Hinton. Twang. 2002 | Giannalberto Bendazzi. Cartoons, "Alexander Alexeieff", from chapter 10 | |
| 7 Nov | Alexeieff & Parker | Alexeieff & Parker. The Nose. 1963
Alexeieff & Parker. En Passant. 1943 Alexeieff & Parker. Pictures at an Exhibition. 1972 Alexeieff & Parker. Smoke (Fumees). 1951 Alexeieff & Parker. Night on Bald Mountain. 1933 | Liz Faber and Helen Walters, Animation Unlimited: Innovative Short Films Since 1940, "Jiri Trnka, Jan Svankmajer, Brothers Quay"
Steve Weiner, "The Quay brothers' The Epic of Gilgamesh and the 'metaphysics of obscenity'" | |
| 12 Nov | Jiri Trnka | Jiri Trnka. The Emperor's Nightingale
Jiri Trnka. The Hand. 1965 | ||
| 14 Nov | Jan Svankmajer; Brothers Quay | Jan Svankmajer. A Game with Stones
Jan Svankmajer. The Flat. 1968 Jan Svankmajer. Dimensions of Dialogue. 1982 Brothers Quay. Epic of Gilgamesh. Brothers Quay. Street of Crocodiles. | ||
| 19 Nov | Hayao Miyazaki | Hayao Miyazaki. My Neighbour Totoro. 1988 | New York Times & Financial Times articles on Miyazaki & anime | nausicaa.net |
| 26 Nov | Japan; Eastern Europe | Sandor Bekesi. Lights Before Dawn. 1984
Csaba Varga. Augusta Kneading. 1986 Nedeljko Dragic. Pictures from Memory. 1990 Alexandr Tatarsky. The Lift. 1989 Garri Bardin. Grey Wolf and Little Red Riding Hood. 1990 | "John Whitney" & "James Whitney", from Gene Youngblood, Expanded Cinema | |
| 28 Nov | John & James Whitney | Saul Bass, John Whitney. Vertigo titles. 1957
John Whitney. Experiments in Motion Graphics. 1969 John Whitney, Sr. documentary (including Catalogue). 1975 John Whitney. Arabesque excerpt. 1975 John Whitney. Permutations. 1968 James Whitney. Lapis. 1966 | John Whitney. Digital Harmony: On the Complementarity of Music and Visual Art (1980) | |
| 3 Dec | Early computer animation | Ed Emshwiller. Sunstone. 1979
Jim Blinn. Voyager 2. 1979 III. Information International Demo Reel. 1979 Larry Cuba. 3/78. 1978 Larry Cuba. Calculated Movements. 1985 Tom DeFanti, Dan Sandin. Five Minute Romp Through the IP. 1974 Tom DeFanti, Dan Sandin, Mimi Shevitz. Spiral 5 PTL. 1981 Larry Cuba. The Star Wars Computer Animation. 1977 Peter Foldes. Hunger. 1974 | John Lasseter, "Principles of Traditional Animation Applied to 3D Computer Animation", Proceedings of SIGGRAPH '87 | |
| 5 Dec | Pixar | Michael Sciulli, Apollo Computer. Quest: A Long Ray's Journey Into Light. 1986
John Lasseter, Pixar. The Adventures of Andre and Wally B. 1984 John Lasseter, Pixar. Red's Dream. 1987 John Lasseter, Pixar. Tin Toy. 1988 | pixar.com |