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Red Type

Date produced: 1965

Filmmaker(s):

Albert Noble

Description:

"Red Type is a novelty in animation. To describe the film would rob the viewer of much of the surprise element which adds a lot to the entertainment value of it. Let's just say this little gem was made from A to Z on a typewriter, both visually and audibly" PSA Journal, Sept. 1965, 51.


Roundabout to Maybee

Date produced: 1970

Filmmaker(s):

Charles E. Phillips

Description:

"Film is mostly animated featuring toy cars and trucks on paper roads with paper trees. The highlights of the film are a roundabout, which is a type of circular intersection and signs which have more than one meaning. The film also includes a human man and woman who seem to be driving one of the cars" Archives of Ontario.


Running Gag, The

Date produced: 1949

Filmmaker(s):

Jack S. Grassick

Charles Woodley

Description:

"Film about how to make films." Library and Archives Canada.


Sexual Product, A

Date produced: 1972

Filmmaker(s):

Bea McKinney

Description:

"Produced by Bea McKinney, “A Sexual Product” is a short amateur film featuring stop-motion animation. McKinney, who taught filmmaking at King High School in Corpus Christi, made the film while studying at the Center for Understanding Media in New York in July 1972" Texas Archive of the Moving Image.


Shine On, Harvest Moon

Date produced: 1982

Filmmaker(s):

Sidney N. Laverents

Description:

"An eclipse of the moon – and a little animated love story." Oldfilm.org

"A time lapse study of the total lunar eclipse; July 5, 1982." UCLA Film & Television Archive.


Short Spell

Date produced: 1957

Filmmaker(s):

Stuart Wynn-Jones

Adrian Lamb

Description:

"A two minute black and white cartoon built around the animated spelling of short words which are quickly converted into the subject of the spelling. There is an effective sound impulse with the rapidly changing characters. Stewart Wynn-Jones has done a short bit of clever cine-cartooning" PSA Journal, Nov. 1957, 33.


Sightseer, The

Date produced: 1974

Filmmaker(s):

Karl Spreitz

Description:

"A mechanical toy from 1880 walks through a landscape created by Michael Morris" Karl Spreitz and Collaborators Archival Film Collection.


Solar Pelexus

Date produced: 1936

Filmmaker(s):

Mel Wesleder

Harry French

Description:

"Mel Weslander and Harry French of San Francisco, with 'Solar Pelexus,' were winners of Agfa's contribution of six rolls of film. As the misspelling of the title indicates, the subject was a farce portraying the journey of two men to another planet in a rocket." American Cinematographer, Jan. 1938, 28.


Strokets Kavalerer

Date produced: 1954

Filmmaker(s):

Mathis Kverne

Description:

"Mathis Kverne returns to the winner's circle with another delightful and imaginative animated cartoon, Strokets Kavalerer—which has been translated for us "Main Street Romeos." This time we meet two boy paint brushes who try, with varying degrees of success, to win the hand of an attractive girl brush. One, a wordly boulevardier, plies her with costly presents, while the other, a real booby, offers her naive, if presumptuously intimate, gifts. When the lady has at last been won—by the booby, of course—we follow the happy couple through their marriage and the birth of their first born, a yellow brushlet of undetermined sex. Although this film may not captivate the viewers as completely as did Mr. Kverne's Muntre Streker (Ten Best 1952) that picture's promise is more than fulfilled. The animation here is smoother in all respects, the development of the story line more definite and the personalities of the individual characters more precisely realized. The result is a film of lighthearted charm which will enchant one and all. And puzzle them too, for the animated methods used by Kverne are still his own secret!" PSA Journal, Jan. 1954, 49.


They Stood Alone

Date produced: 1969

Filmmaker(s):

William Peterman

Ray Katos

Richard Miklos

Description:

They Stood Alone won an Honorable Mention and Special Judges' Award for a Teen-Age Production and for outstanding use of animation. This 16-minute color film of "little green men" and their fight for survival will be a real revelation to those film makers that have tried some clay figure animation. The story is a little loose but an excellent use of angles, lighting and timing more than deserves the award won by Bill Peterman 16, Ray Katos, 16 and Dick Miklos, 18, of Chicago.


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