BSA106: Animation 1975 - 1980 (Week 23)

USA/Canada
Caroline Leaf created The Street (1976)
First started out making sand animations and moved on to create paint on glass animations
http://www.nfb.ca/film/the_street/

Belgium

Eddie Lateste & Peyo

In 1958 the cartoonist Peyo created Les Schtroumpfs (The Smurfs) which first appeared as comic strips in a Belgian magazine. 10 black and white animated Smurf shorts were made for Belgian TV in the 1960’s and in 1976 a feature length colour movie was released called The Smurfs and the Magic flute which was directed by Lasteste and Peyo. Hanna-Barbera made an animated TV series of the smurfs in 1981 and due to it’s popularity, The Smurfs and the Magic Flute was released in the USA in 1983

Italy

Bruno Bozzetto

Created Allegro Non Troppo 1976

Focuses on different aspects of life using mythology and science fiction themes and set to pieces of classical music. Uses a mixture of live action and animation

UK

Jeff Keen

Made The Cartoon Theatre of Dr Gaz 1977

In his films he often mixes stolen fragments of monster movies with sci-fi and home movies along with action painting and rough home made animation. Another film made was Instant Cinema 1962

Martin Rosen

Made Watership Down 1978

Story based on the dark and violent book by Richard Adams which depicts the cruelty of man and nature. Marketed as a family friendly film but is not  considered a cute children’s story

Roger Mainwood

Halas & Batchler was one of the first studios to use CG, as early as 1969. The short Autobahn 1979 was directed by Roger Mainwood who used a computer at London’s Imperial College but the primitive images it produced were little used in the film. The computer style images in the film were mostly produced by traditional animation techniques

Australia/Poland

Yoram Gross 

Made Dot and the Kangaroo 1977

Used the technique of laying animated characters over photographic backgrounds. Sold well internationally and seven sequels were then later produced.

Croatia

Zdenko Gasparovic

Worked for Zagreb Film and directed A Dog’s Life in 1966, worked for Hanna-Barbera in the USA and returned to Croatia and worked on the TV series Professor Balthazar. Made Satiemania 1978

Russia

Yuri Norstein

Created what is described as the Citizen Cane of animation, Tale of tales 1979, a follow up the short film Little Hedgehog in the Fog 1975. Story consists of fragmented, interlinked stories with the intention of being like the human memory. Uses multiple techniques, mainly cutouts with multiplane backgrounds and foregrounds

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BLOG TASK

Provide examples of scenes from films or animations that have blown your mind

Now You See Me (2013)

Was mind blown by the tricks that was all in it despite the fact that it's mostly use of CGI

Inception (2010)

The movie really messed with my head the first time I watched it. It was low key mind blowing to me the first time I watched it and it gave me a huge confusion. I also had to watch it a few more time to process what's going on.

Ex Machina (2015)

I was just amazed by the way the movie is revolved around the robot and how self aware it was of itself

Write a Review on Satiemania (1978) by Zdenko Gasparovich

I personally didn't enjoy this film. It had a unique, surrealist type of art style which I sometimes find hard to follow as they are usually different. The lack of realism was what made it really trippy and odd. It was also really hard for me to pay attention as it does not have a story line.