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Ducky ‘n Busty

Date produced: 1937

Filmmaker(s):

Emile Gallet

Description:

"To the producer of Ducky 'n Busty must be given the palm of accomplishment for making the first 16mm. cartoon story in Kodachrome that has come to the attention of the League. Plenty of publicity has been given to the immense amount of detailed work that goes into making a theatrical screen cartoon. In Hollywood, this is done by a large staff, but Emile Gallet, producer of this unusual film, performed every bit of the work himself. This included the construction of a special apparatus for shooting color film, frame by frame, the arrangement of proper lighting and designing an alignment device for bringing each separate drawing into correct relationship with its predecessor. In addition, Mr. Gallet, who is an artist, planned the scenario and executed each separate drawing in color. The monumental effort thus involved may be deduced from the fact that there are forty frames to each foot of film and that Ducky 'n Busty runs to a length of 400 feet. The subject matter of this amusing cartoon is of the type familiar in theatrical productions, wherein the antics of birds and animals repeat the foibles of humankind. In imaginative color design, fine technical work and sheer achievement in this field, into which so few amateur workers have ventured, Mr. Gallet rates highest praise." Movie Makers, Dec. 1937, 629.


En las Cruzadas [In the Crusades]

Date produced: 1974

Filmmaker(s):

Miguel Ángel Quintana

Description:

Film de animación que cuenta la anécdota de un caballero que tiene un encuentro casual cuando se dirige a las Cruzadas.

Animated film that tells the story of a knight that has a casual encounter as he travels to the Crusades.


Eurynome

Date produced: 1970

Filmmaker(s):

John Straiton

Description:

"An exceptional portrayal of the world's creation, from a barren landscape to the emergence of the Woman and the Serpent, ending with Society as we know it. The film is technically unsurpassed in plasticine animation." Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre.


Experiment in Animation

Date produced: 1953

Filmmaker(s):

Michael A. Riche


Experiment in Animation

Date produced: 1955

Filmmaker(s):

Donna Mortinez


Fairy Princess

Date produced: 1956

Filmmaker(s):

Margaret Conneely

Description:

"The story of a little girl and the doll she wanted for Christmas. She asked for a fairy princess, got just a doll, but then the doll comes to life and dances, delighting the disillusioned miss and the film ends on a happy note." PSA Journal, Nov. 1956, 22.


Fantasy in Toyland

Date produced: 1947

Filmmaker(s):

Charles H. Benjamin

Description:

"Using animated puppets and hand painted water color backgrounds, Charles H. Benjamin, in Fantasy in Toyland, takes a curious dog through the horrors usually reserved for white knights, to save a fabulous female canine in distress. The story is old but the treatment is new. The puppets were manipulated from below stage level and filmed frame by frame with a remotely controlled camera. The star of the piece meets cows, dragons and various beasts made of pine cones and other strange raw materials. The film ends on the accepted romantic note." Movie Makers, Dec. 1947, 536-537.


February 31st

Date produced: 1972

Filmmaker(s):

Richard Saenz

Mundo Villareal

Mardik Sikat

Philip Tascon

Description:

"Animated film made by four boys from St. Thomas of Canterbury grade school. "February 31st" is a colorful animation of fruit that comes to life as the sun rises on that mythical date." Chicago Film Archives


Funzionamento del motore a scoppio [Operation of the Internal Combustion Engine]

Date produced: 1934

Filmmaker(s):

Renato Spinotti

Description:

"dis. an. didattici"/animated educational doc


Genesis

Still taken from Genesis (1980)

Date produced: 1980

Filmmaker(s):

Valrie Ellis

Description:

Cartoon set in the Garden of Eden. Adam is soon bored in his new surroundings, so God creates Eve for him. Over the next three days God finds Adam regularly bored, so God suggests activities for Adam with Eve, explaining each time what he means. The suggestions for days 2, 3 and 4 respectively are: giving Eve a hug; kissing Eve; making love to Eve. On the fourth day, Adam returns and asks God to explain what a headache is. (EAFA)


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