The History of World Animation 1930-1950 (BSA 106)
World Animation History (1930-1950)
The day is getting darker faster than usual yeah here at Invercargill haha... I just finished reading and making a little summary of the lesson's material today in history class. Let's beginn!
1. France-Russia
France-Polish-Russian animator Ladislaw Starewicz first created his film called The Tale of the Fox which he started in 1920 and was finished 10 years later. The stop motion animation film was released on 10th April 1937 at Berlin. The characters are humanised animals wearing clothes and act just like humans. The story is inspired from Dutch and French folk tales.
2. France-Czech Republic
Berthold Bartosch was a Bohemian film-maker born in 1893 and died in 1968. Some of his notable movies are The Idea, Chasing Fortune, and A Tremendously Rich Man which one them is based on a book written by Frans Masareel. Bartosch has moved to another city a lot of times during his lifetime, in 1919 he moved to Berlin and had been working with animators such as Lotte Reiniger and Walter Ruttman and in 1930 he changed his destination to Paris and made his film, The Idea. He filmed cutout drawings on multiple levels of glass and achieved soft lighting effects by back lighting and smearing the glass with soap.
3. France-UK-USA
Anthony Grossis is a British printmaker, painter, war artist, and film director known for his films such as La Joie de Vivre and Indian Fantasy. He was born in 1905 at Dulwich, UK and died in 1984 at Le Boulve, France.
An American artist and photographer Hector Hoppin is well-known as the pioneer in animated films during those era. Both him and Anthony has been working together in Paris, specifically in the film La Joie de Vivre.
4. Japan
In 1936, Toy Box: Picture Book series is quite popular which starring Momotaro vs Mickey Mouse. At that time, Momotaro was a popular character as it appeared at several propaganda cartoons as a motivate of Japan towards building up military resources against America.
Kenzo Masaoka was the first Japanese who created animation with sound in 1933. Later on he established his own studio and made two films The Spider and The Tulip in 1943 without propaganda angles.
5. Germany
In 1933, modern and abstract art were prohibited by the Nazi, and that was the reason most of the animators in Germany moved to another country to continue on their living, but not Oskar Fishinger. Oskar considered his artwork more to decorative kind of animation rather than abstract and created his "decorative" film called Composition in Blue in 1935. At the later years, he had been working with world's best animation company such as Disney.
6. Russia
Aleksandr Lukich Ptushko was a Soviet fantasy and animation film director who often referred as "Soviet Walt Disney" because his influence in the early years of animation. He was born on 19th April 1900 at Ukraine and died on 1973 at Moscow, Russia. Gulliver's Travel was first created in 1900s and later on was being adapted by Aleksandr with the new title "The New Gulliver" in 1935. At that time Russia encouraged film makers to create moralistic works and traditional children's stories that often contained pro-soviet propaganda.
A Soviet animation director, animator, screenwriter, educator, professor at VGIK named Ivan Ivanov-Vano was the pioneer in creating the general policy that animation films are public service to provide traditional folks stories and educational films for children. He himself was one of the pioneers in Soviet Animation School and was known as "Patriarch of Soviet animation". Animators during those time were told to do rotoscoping which is tracing the drawing from live action movements. One of Ptushko's most successful films was The Humpbacked Little Horse which was released in 1947.
7. UK
Norman McLaren used different techniques in his animation including the drawing on film technique, such as DOTS.
Bill Larkins opened his own animation studio at London in 1940 producing training films for armies during the WWII without even a single entertainment movies. His studio is known for its simple animation.
8. UK-Hungary
Married couple named John Halas and Joy Batchelor made animated information and propaganda films as part of Britain’s war effort which was founded in 1940. Both of them had produced 2000 films so far.
9. China
Wan brothers were one of Chinese pioneers in the early animation during the 1900s. They were Wan Laiming Wan Guchan, Wan Chaochen & Wan Dihuan. Their first animated film was Uproar in The Studio which was released in 1924 and created several political movies as well since then as an invasion towards Japan. After watching Disney's animated Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs in 1939, they were inspired in creating China's first featured film called Princess Iron Fan which was finished in another 2 years.
10. Spain
In Spain itself they have animation pioneer called Arturo Moreno who created Spain's first animated film with the title "The Enchanted Sword" in 1945. The film was a big hit which was continued to build the remake abroad in 1948 called Happy Holiday.
11. Czech Republic
Jiri Trnka & Milos Makovec first made their animated film called The Emperor's Nightingale in 1948. The film was won worldwide and the distribution was picked up at USA.
12. Italy
An animated film "The Dynamite Brothers" was directed by Nino Pagot in 1949. The film was launched at Venice Film Festival and at USA but did poorly in the box office which the production company finally moved away from films into advertising.
Anton Gino Domenighini was a film director who directed "The Rose of Baghdad" in 1949 which took 7 years to make.
The day is getting darker faster than usual yeah here at Invercargill haha... I just finished reading and making a little summary of the lesson's material today in history class. Let's beginn!
1. France-Russia
France-Polish-Russian animator Ladislaw Starewicz first created his film called The Tale of the Fox which he started in 1920 and was finished 10 years later. The stop motion animation film was released on 10th April 1937 at Berlin. The characters are humanised animals wearing clothes and act just like humans. The story is inspired from Dutch and French folk tales.
2. France-Czech Republic
Berthold Bartosch was a Bohemian film-maker born in 1893 and died in 1968. Some of his notable movies are The Idea, Chasing Fortune, and A Tremendously Rich Man which one them is based on a book written by Frans Masareel. Bartosch has moved to another city a lot of times during his lifetime, in 1919 he moved to Berlin and had been working with animators such as Lotte Reiniger and Walter Ruttman and in 1930 he changed his destination to Paris and made his film, The Idea. He filmed cutout drawings on multiple levels of glass and achieved soft lighting effects by back lighting and smearing the glass with soap.
3. France-UK-USA
Anthony Grossis is a British printmaker, painter, war artist, and film director known for his films such as La Joie de Vivre and Indian Fantasy. He was born in 1905 at Dulwich, UK and died in 1984 at Le Boulve, France.
An American artist and photographer Hector Hoppin is well-known as the pioneer in animated films during those era. Both him and Anthony has been working together in Paris, specifically in the film La Joie de Vivre.
4. Japan
In 1936, Toy Box: Picture Book series is quite popular which starring Momotaro vs Mickey Mouse. At that time, Momotaro was a popular character as it appeared at several propaganda cartoons as a motivate of Japan towards building up military resources against America.
Kenzo Masaoka was the first Japanese who created animation with sound in 1933. Later on he established his own studio and made two films The Spider and The Tulip in 1943 without propaganda angles.
5. Germany
In 1933, modern and abstract art were prohibited by the Nazi, and that was the reason most of the animators in Germany moved to another country to continue on their living, but not Oskar Fishinger. Oskar considered his artwork more to decorative kind of animation rather than abstract and created his "decorative" film called Composition in Blue in 1935. At the later years, he had been working with world's best animation company such as Disney.
6. Russia
Aleksandr Lukich Ptushko was a Soviet fantasy and animation film director who often referred as "Soviet Walt Disney" because his influence in the early years of animation. He was born on 19th April 1900 at Ukraine and died on 1973 at Moscow, Russia. Gulliver's Travel was first created in 1900s and later on was being adapted by Aleksandr with the new title "The New Gulliver" in 1935. At that time Russia encouraged film makers to create moralistic works and traditional children's stories that often contained pro-soviet propaganda.
A Soviet animation director, animator, screenwriter, educator, professor at VGIK named Ivan Ivanov-Vano was the pioneer in creating the general policy that animation films are public service to provide traditional folks stories and educational films for children. He himself was one of the pioneers in Soviet Animation School and was known as "Patriarch of Soviet animation". Animators during those time were told to do rotoscoping which is tracing the drawing from live action movements. One of Ptushko's most successful films was The Humpbacked Little Horse which was released in 1947.
7. UK
Norman McLaren used different techniques in his animation including the drawing on film technique, such as DOTS.
Bill Larkins opened his own animation studio at London in 1940 producing training films for armies during the WWII without even a single entertainment movies. His studio is known for its simple animation.
8. UK-Hungary
Married couple named John Halas and Joy Batchelor made animated information and propaganda films as part of Britain’s war effort which was founded in 1940. Both of them had produced 2000 films so far.
9. China
Wan brothers were one of Chinese pioneers in the early animation during the 1900s. They were Wan Laiming Wan Guchan, Wan Chaochen & Wan Dihuan. Their first animated film was Uproar in The Studio which was released in 1924 and created several political movies as well since then as an invasion towards Japan. After watching Disney's animated Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs in 1939, they were inspired in creating China's first featured film called Princess Iron Fan which was finished in another 2 years.
10. Spain
In Spain itself they have animation pioneer called Arturo Moreno who created Spain's first animated film with the title "The Enchanted Sword" in 1945. The film was a big hit which was continued to build the remake abroad in 1948 called Happy Holiday.
11. Czech Republic
Jiri Trnka & Milos Makovec first made their animated film called The Emperor's Nightingale in 1948. The film was won worldwide and the distribution was picked up at USA.
12. Italy
An animated film "The Dynamite Brothers" was directed by Nino Pagot in 1949. The film was launched at Venice Film Festival and at USA but did poorly in the box office which the production company finally moved away from films into advertising.
Anton Gino Domenighini was a film director who directed "The Rose of Baghdad" in 1949 which took 7 years to make.
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