1st Edition

Animation: A World History Volume I: Foundations - The Golden Age

By Giannalberto Bendazzi Copyright 2016
    238 Pages
    by Routledge

    238 Pages
    by Routledge

    A continuation of 1994’s groundbreaking Cartoons, Giannalberto Bendazzi’s Animation: A World History is the largest, deepest, most comprehensive text of its kind, based on the idea that animation is an art form that deserves its own place in scholarship. Bendazzi delves beyond just Disney, offering readers glimpses into the animation of Russia, Africa, Latin America, and other often-neglected areas and introducing over fifty previously undiscovered artists. Full of first-hand, never before investigated, and elsewhere unavailable information, Animation: A World History encompasses the history of animation production on every continent over the span of three centuries.

    Volume I traces the roots and predecessors of modern animation, the history behind Émile Cohl's Fantasmagorie, and twenty years of silent animated films. Encompassing the formative years of the art form through its Golden Age, this book accounts for animation history through 1950 and covers everything from well-known classics like Steamboat Willie to animation in Egypt and Nazi Germany. With a wealth of new research, hundreds of photographs and film stills, and an easy-to-navigate organization, this book is essential reading for all serious students of animation history.

     

    Key Features

    • Over 200 high quality head shots and film stills to add visual reference to your research
    • Detailed information on hundreds of never-before researched animators and films
    • Coverage of animation from more than 90 countries and every major region of the world
    • Chronological and geographical organization for quick access to the information you’re looking for

    1. FOUNDATIONS
    2. What it is

      Mapping chaos

      Turning points

      Periods

      Guilty, but with an explanation

      Traces

      You won’t find…

      A hybrid

    3. BEFORE FANTASMAGORIE
    4. Archaeology

        Phidias’s animating chisel

        Representation

        The motion analysis

        Music

        The meaning of the implicit movement

        An object of philosophy

      Pre-history 1

        Science, science, science

        Writing with light

      Pre-history 2

        A static mirror?

        The flipbook

        Émile Reynaud

        Birth of the théâtre optique

        The théâtre optique and how it worked

        On with the lantern show

        Colour Music

        Frame-by-frame

        Arthur Melbourne-Cooper

        Walter Robert Booth

        Edwin S. Porter

        James Stuart Blackton

    5. THE SILENT PIONEERS
    6. The Cradle

        Days of heaven and hell

        Culture

        Cinema

        Narrative, non-narrative

        Fantasmagorie

      The Fathers

        Émile Cohl

        Georges Méliès

        The first abstract cinema

        Arnaldo Ginna

        Léopold Survage

        Winsor McCay

        Colour

    7. SILENT AMERICA 1
    8. The Fathers’ Sons

        Comics, animation, cinema

        Birth of the industry

        Raoul Barré

        Cut-Insert-Replace

        John Randolph Bray

        The IFS

        Other American artists

        Willis O’Brien

        Instruments and language

    9. SILENT AMERICA 2
      1. The Fleischer Brothers

        Felix, Pat and Otto Messmer

        Terry and the Fables

        Bowers unbound

        Lantz’s debut

        Bray, Hurd, Mintz

        Sarg and Dawley

        The young Walt Disney

    10. SILENT EUROPE
    11. The individualists

      Great Britain

      Ireland

      France

        Lortac

        Advertisers and illustrators

      Germany: Animation in the Weimar Republic

        The matrix

        Walther Ruttmann

        Viking Eggeling

        Hans Richter

        Lotte Reiniger

      Austria

      Switzerland

      Denmark

        Storm P.

      Sweden

        Grogg the sailor man

        Other Swedish animators

      Norway

      Finland

      Spain

      Portugal

      Hungary

      The rest of Europe

      Russia/Soviet Union

        Ladislas Starewich

        After the revolution

        Ukraine

    12. SILENT ASIA
    13. Japan

        The narrator

    14. SILENT LATIN AMERICA
    15. Mexico

      Colombia

      Brazil

      Chile

      Argentina: the world’s first animated feature film

        Quirino Cristiani

    16. SILENT AFRICA
    17. Union of South Africa

    18. SILENT OCEANIA
    19. Australia

    20. THE GOLDEN AGE
    21. Steamboat Willie

        Sync or sink

        The non-concurrence factor

        Sound

    22. AMERICA LAUGHS!
    23. Walt Disney the tycoon

        The fixed star

        Human or animal?

        Years of expansion

        The ones who made the magic

        Another Disney folly

        The pillar brother

        At Disney's animation declines

        The Twelve Rules of the Nine Men

      Animation heads west

        The masters’ master

        Lantz, from the Rabbit to the Woodpecker

        Ub Iwerks

        Mintz, Krazy and Columbia

        Van Beuren

        Terrytoons and Mighty Mouse

        The Fleischers: Betty Boop, Popeye and two feature films

        Warner Brothers

        Tex Avery

        Bob Clampett

        Carl W. Stalling, musical animator

        Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer: Cat, Mouse, Tex

        Tashlin the wanderer

      The American avant-garde

      Animation in Canada

    24. EUROPE
    25. Great Britain

        Len Lye

      France

        Anthony Gross

        Berthold Bartosch

        Alexandre Alexeïeff

      Belgium

      The Netherlands

      Germany in Nazi time

        Hans Fischerkoesen

        The Brothers Diehl

        Heinz Tischmeyer

        Hans Held

        Wolfgang Kaskeline

        Avant-garde

        Oskar Fischinger

      Austria

      Switzerland

      Denmark

      Norway

      Sweden

      Czechoslovakia

      Poland

        Stefan and Franciszka Themerson

      Hungary

        George Pal

      Yugoslavia

      Italy

      Greece

      Spain

        Catalan vibrancy

        The Edad Dorada

        Barcelona’s entrepreneurs

        Barcelonese feature-length films

        Madrid

        Valencia

      Portugal

    26. SOVIET UNION
    27. Russia

      Ukraine

      Lithuania

      Azerbaijan

      Armenia

      Georgia

    28. ASIA
    29. Japan

        Ofuji Noburo

        Masaoka Kenzo

        Kimura Hakuzan

        A Brave New World

        The changed frame around

        Mochinaga Tadahito and his legacy

        Ichikawa Kon

      China

    30. LATIN AMERICA
    31. Mexico

      Colombia

      Venezuela

      Brazil

      Argentina

    32. AFRICA
    33. Egypt

      Union of South Africa

    Biography

    A former professor at the Nanyang Technological University of Singapore and the Università degli Studi of Milan, Italian-born Giannalberto Bendazzi has been thoroughly investigating the history of animation for more than forty years. A founding member of the Society for Animation Studies, he authored or edited various classics in various languages, and has lectured extensively on every continent.