A Short Vision
Filed under: animation, Educational films, Painted Animation, U.K., 1956
Producer(s): British Film Institute Joan Foldes Peter Foldes
Release Date: 1956
Kaleidoscope
Filed under: animation, 1930s, Color, Direct Animation, Dufaycolor, Experimental, Gasparcolor, GPO Film Unit, Latin, Len Lye, London Film Society, New Zealand, Painted Animation, U.K., 1935
Producer(s): Gerald Noxon
Release Date: 27/10/1935
"Premiered at the London Film Society in 1935, Kaleidoscope is an early example of experimental animator Len Lye’s pioneering direct or “cameraless” animation techniques. The film’s notable use of stencil work illustrates Lye’s textile-like ..."
Running a Cinema (1921)
Filed under: animation, 1920s, Britain, Durdley Buxton, Silent, U.K., 1921
Release Date: ?/?/1921
"Running a Cinema is a black-and-white silent animated short making fun of film theatre operations of its time. The projection of an animated sequence within the animated theatre demonstrates an interplay of medium self-reflexivity. The short was c..."