Animation from Cape Dorset
Filed under: animation, 1970s, Anime, Color, 1973
Producer(s): National Film Board of Canada
Release Date: 1973
"This short film features several sections that introduce Inuit culture, customs, folklores, and craftsmanship. "The Good Day for Hunting" and "Caribou Hunting" discuss the fishing and hunting rituals in Baffin Island. In addition, "the Inuit Christma..."
Dick Beals
Filed under: people, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, Stop Motion, U.S.A., Actor, Voice Actor
"Born in Detroit, as a child Dick Beals was too small to play sports, instead opting to be a cheerleader. He attended Michigan State University, where he began to lend his voice to radio broadcasting. In the 1940s, Beal began to do voice acting profes..."
Eunice Macaulay
Filed under: people, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, Canada, Color, Cultural Industries, National Film Board of Canada, U.K., Animator, Filmmaker, Producer, Writer
"Before entering animation, Eunice Macaulay worked at Pilkington Brothers as an analytical chemist, and later during the Second World War as a radio operator. After the war, in 1948, a Christmas card Macaulay illustrated caught the attention of Gaumon..."
Fantastic Planet (La Planète sauvage)(1973)
Filed under: animation, 1970s, Czech Republic, Czechoslovakia, France, Jiří Trnka Studio, Réne Laloux, Slovakia, Technicolor, 1973
Producer(s): Simon Damiani Anatole Dauman Andre Valio-Cavaglione Vaclav Strnad
Release Date: 11/05/1973 (Cannes); 06/12/1973 (France); 21/12/1973 (Czechslovakia)
"Fantastic Planet (1973), based on Stefan Wul's novel Oms en série (1957), takes place in a distant future where the giant blue-skin aliens, the Draags, enslave and oppress humans. Terr, the protagonist, is a human boy raised as a pet of a Draag girl..."
Grant Munro
Filed under: people, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, Canada, Documentary, National Film Board of Canada, Actor, Animator, Filmmaker, Producer
"Grant Munro was an animator, actor, producer and filmmaker with the National Film Board of Canada, who was instrumental in many of the first developments of the film board and its associated studios. He was one of the board's earliest and longest ser..."
I Am the Greatest: The Adventures of Muhammad Ali-Episode 1: The Great Alligator
Filed under: animation, 1970s, Farmhouse Films, Floyd Norman, U.S.A., 1977
Producer(s): Janis Diamond Fred Calvert (executive producer)
Release Date: 10/09/1977
I Can Remember
Filed under: animation, 1970s, Color, Racial representation, Sesame Street, U.S.A., 1972
Producer(s): Sesame Street
Release Date: 15/11/1972
"An animated short from season four, episode eight of Sesame Street, a young girl is instructed by her mother to purchase a loaf of bread, a container of milk, and a stick of butter from the grocery store. "
In the Jungle There is Much to Do (En la Selva hay Mucho por Hacer) (1973)
Filed under: animation, 1970s, collage, Color, Musical, Technicolor, Uruguay, Walter Tournier, 1973
Release Date: ?/?/1973
"Inspired by a Uruguayan political prisoner’s letter to his daughter, In the Jungle There is Much to Do (El la Selva hay Mucho por Hacer) is a stop-motion musical animated short using the jungle animals' struggle for survival as a metaphorical expla..."
Isao Takahata (高畑 勲)
Filed under: people, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s, Anime, Color, Isao Takahata, Japan, Studio Ghibli, Technicolor, Director, Producer, Screenwriter
"Isao Takahata (高畑 勲, 1935-2018) is a Japanese, director, screenwriter and producer. He is the co-founder of Studio Ghibli alongside his lifetime friend Hayao Miyazaki (宮崎駿). Takahata was born in Ise and grew up in Okayama where his h..."
Jan Švankmajer
Filed under: people, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, Czech Republic, Krátký Film, Pixilation, Stop Motion, Animator, Artist, Director
"Jan Švankmajer is a Czechoslovakian surrealist artist, filmmaker and animator. His work revolves around the exploration of imaginative meanings within objects of the everyday specifically through their tactile qualities. Filled with grotesque imager..."
Jim Simon
Filed under: people, 1970s, 1980s, Educational films, Paramount Pictures, Sesame Street, U.S.A., Animation Designer, Animator, Artist, Background Artist, Studio Head, Writer
"Jim Simon is an artist and animator who created numerous commercials, public relation films, and entertainment and educational shorts during the 1970s and 1980s. Once dubbed “the Black Walt Disney” (even though he did not embrace the title), Simo..."
Jin Fuzai (金复载)
Filed under: people, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, Anime, China, Jin Fuzai, Shanghai Animation Film Studio, Technicolor, Composer, Soundtrack
"Jin Fuzai (金复载) is a Chinese composer known for creating numerous soundtracks for works by Sh..."
John Whitney, Sr.
Filed under: people, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, U.S.A., Animator, Composer, Inventor
"John Whitney attended school at Pomona College, and in 1937, took a year in Paris to study twelve-tone composition under conductor René Leibowitz. Upon returning to America, he and his brother, James, began to make experimental films, initially work..."
Leo D. Sullivan
Filed under: people, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s, Bob Clampett, Color, Educational films, Hanna-Barbera Studios, Racial representation, U.S.A., Walt Disney, Walt Disney Studios, Warner Bros., Animation Designer, Animator, Art Director, Director, Educator, Producer
"Leo D. Sullivan began his career in 1959 after graduating from the Chouinard Art Institute. He first worked as an assistant to Warner Bros. producer Bob Clampett on the television show, Beany and Cecil. In 1965, Sullivan met fellow animator Floyd Nor..."
Lin Wenxiao (林文肖)
Filed under: people, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, Anime, China, Cinecolor, Painted Animation, Shanghai Animation Film Studio, Technicolor, Animation Designer, Animator, Artist, Director
"Lin Wenxiao (林文肖) is one of the greatest animators and directors in Early Chinese Animation. She is a former member of Shanghai Animation Film Studio (SAFS, 上海美术电影制片厂) as well as International Animated Film Association (ASIFA)..."
Lou Scheimer
Filed under: people, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, Filmation, He-Man, He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, U.S.A., Animator, Art Director, Director, Producer, Voice Actor
"Louis "Lou" Scheimer was born on October 19th, 1928. He is best known for being the co-founder of American production company Filmation Associates—the leading company in TV animation throughout the 70s and 80s. The company was formed in 1962 alongs..."
Marcell Jankovics
Filed under: people, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s, Anime, Color, Hungary, Pannonia Studio, Technicolor, Animator, Character Designer, Director, Screenwriter, Writer
"Marcell Jankovics is a Hungarian animator, director, graphic artist, and writer. He was the former art director and managing director of Pannonia Film Studio in 1995 and 1996, the former president of the Hungarian Cultural Society in 1998 and the St...."
Masahiko Satoh
Filed under: people, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s, Japan, Composer
"Born in Tokyo in 1941, Masahiko Satoh is a pianist whose career has spanned six decades and over a hundred albums. His style is known for blending influences from American jazz with traditional Japanese music. Satoh's interest in music began at the ..."
Michael Maltese
Filed under: people, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Elmer Fudd, Looney Tunes, Tasmanian Devil, U.S.A., Warner Bros., Writer
"Born in New York City to Italian immigrants, Michael Maltese studied at the National Academy of Art and Design, before landing his first animation job working as a colourist for Betty Boop cartoons, in 1935. He and his wife, Florence Sass, later move..."
Miyazaki Hayao (宮崎駿)
Filed under: people, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s, Anime, Color, Japan, Mayazaki Hayao, Studio Ghibli, Technicolor, Animator, Author, Cartoonist, Director, Screenwriter, Studio Head, Writer
"Miyazaki Hayao (宮崎駿) is an internationally renowned and influential Japanese animator, director, screenwriter, and comic artist. He is the co-founder of Studio Ghibli and the winner of two Best Animated Feature Academy Awards. "
Nezha Conquers the Dragon Kings (哪吒闹海)(1979)-Battle Scene
Filed under: animation, 1970s, China, Color, Shanghai Animation Film Studio, Technicolor, 1979
Producer(s): Liu Jiamei (刘佳美)
Release Date: 19/05/1979
"Inspired by the tale of the boy-god Nezha from a sixteenth-century Chinese novel Investiture of Gods (封神演义), this animated film tells the origin story of Nezha fighting against four tyrannical dragon kings, rulers of the seas who demanded hu..."
Nikolai Khodataev
Filed under: people, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, Propaganda, Russia, Stop Motion, Animator, Artist, Writer
"Born in the village of Konstantinovsk in 1892, the son of a wealthy tsarist official, Nikolai Khodataev took painting lessons in his youth, eventually enrolling in the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture, at the age of twenty. In ..."
Payut Ngaokrachang
Filed under: people, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, Commercials, Propaganda, Toei Animation Studio, Animator, Educator, Studio Head
"Payut Ngaokrachang was a Thai animation pioneer and creator of Thailand’s first animated feature film. He is known as “Thailand’s Walt Disney.”"
Quasi at the Quackadero (1975)
Filed under: animation, 1970s, Color, Sally Cruikshank, Technicolor, U.S.A., 1975
Release Date: 09/11/1975
"A couple, Quasi and Anita, visit a psychedelic amusement park with bizarre attractions such as a television that reveals the visitors' shining moments from their memories, mirrors that reflect one's appearance throughout the ages, a painter who can d..."
Ray Harryhausen
Filed under: people, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, Stop Motion, Technicolor, U.K., U.S.A., Animator, Producer, Screenwriter, Special Effects Animator
"Ray Harryhausen is an American-British screenwriter, animator, and special effects designer known for integrating stop-motion animation into real-action films. Amazed by animation from The Lost World (1925) and King Kong (1933) by Wilis O’Brien,..."
Réne Laloux
Filed under: people, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, France, Réne Laloux, Animator, Director, Screenwriter
"Réne Laloux is a French animator, screenwriter, and director. Laloux studied painting at the university before working in advertising (Brode 174). Later, Laloux entered La Borde Psychiatric Clinic, where he treated the patients by creating short ..."
Sadie Friedlander Bodin
Filed under: people, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, Color, Inkwell / Fleischer Studios, U.S.A., Van Beuren Corporation, Animation Supervisor, Animator, Background Artist, Colorist, Inker, Union Activist
"Sadie Bodin was an extremely influential animator, being the first to picket an animation studio during the fight for animation workers' rights in the 1930s. Bodin was also one of the few women animators to move up into managerial positions, becoming..."
Sally Cruikshank
Filed under: people, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s, Sally Cruikshank, Technicolor, U.S.A., Animator, Artist, Cartoonist, Director
"Sally Cruikshank is an American independent animator, cartoonist, and director. She is most known for her psychedelic and surrealist depictions of oftentimes anthropomorphic figures. Cruikshank majored in art during undergraduate study at Smith Co..."
Shanghai Animation Film Studio (上海美术电影制片厂)
Filed under: studio, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s, 2020s, Anime, China, Painted Animation, Pixilation, Propaganda, Shanghai Animation Film Studio, Stop Motion, Technicolor, 1957
"Foundation Northeast Film Company (东北电影公司), SAFS’ predecessor, was founded in Changchun, China, on October 1st, 1945 (Yan 72). During the Chinese Civil War (1945–1949) between the Communist and Nationalist Parties, the company reloca..."
Special Delivery
Filed under: animation, 1970s, Canada, Color, National Film Board of Canada, 1978
Producer(s): Derek Lamb
Release Date: 1978
"Ralph Phelps ignores his wife's orders to clean the snow off their porch and goes for a walk instead. His day spirals into anarchy when he returns to find the mailman on his front yard, his neck broken from slipping and falling down the stairs."
Stephen and Timothy Quay (Brothers Quay)
Filed under: people, 1970s, 1980s, Stop Motion, U.K., Animator, Director
"Stephen and Timothy Quay are identical twin brothers and animators, working together as the Quay Brothers. They are extremely influential in the field of stop-motion animation, creating dark and esoteric works that have built on several fascinating a..."
Sterling Holloway
Filed under: people, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, U.S.A., Walt Disney, Walt Disney Studios, Winnie the Pooh, Actor, Voice Actor
"Born in Cedartown, Georgia to a grocer, Sterling Holloway's acting career began in his teens, when he enrolled in the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City, where his classmates included Spencer Tracy and Pat O'Brien. After graduation, h..."
Storyboard Studios/Hubley Studios
Filed under: studio, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, Commercials, HUAC, John Hubley, Research Subjects, Sesame Street, U.S.A., United Productions of America (UPA), 1953
"After John Hubley was blacklisted by HUAC (House Un-American Activities Committee) for not testifying before the committee, he had to leave his position at United Productions of America (UPA) in 1952 and as a result founded his own independent animat..."
Taiji Yabushita (藪下泰司)
Filed under: people, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, Japan, Taiji Yabushita, Technicolor, Toei Animation Studio, Director, Educator, Screenwriter, Writer
"Taiji Serushita graduated from Tokyo School of Fine Arts and studied photography. He is a pioneer of Japanese animation. After graduation, he joined the filming department of Matsuktake Co. Ltd. in 1925. Later, he worked in the film production equipm..."
The Great Bluegrass Mountain Race
Filed under: animation, 1970s, Color, Farmhouse Films, U.S.A., 1977
Producer(s): Fred Calvert
Release Date: 12/11/1977
"This is the tenth episode of the short-lived series, I Am the Greatest!: The Adventures of Muhammad Ali. Muhammad Ali, Damon, and Nicky help their friend, a train engineer named Jimmy, win a race against two dishonest truckers."
The Owl Who Married a Goose: An Eskimo Legend
Filed under: animation, 1970s, Canada, National Film Board of Canada, Painted Animation, 1974
Producer(s): Pierre Moretti
Release Date: 1974
"From the National Film Board of Canada: Please note that this is an archival film that makes use of the word “Eskimo,” an outdated and offensive term. While the origin of the word is a matter of some contention, it is no longer used in Canada. Th..."
The Street
Filed under: animation, 1970s, Canada, National Film Board of Canada, Painted Animation, 1976
Producer(s): Wolf Koenig Guy Glover
Release Date: 01/01/1976
""This film deals with a Jewish family in Montreal, Canada as they care for a dying grandmother and the young boy who is impatient to get the room he was promised as soon as she kicks the bucket.""
The Wan Brothers (万氏兄弟)
Filed under: people, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, China, Shanghai Animation Film Studio, Silent, Technicolor, Animator, Cartoonist, Character Designer, Director, Screenwriter, Writer
"The Wan Brothers (万氏兄弟) are the group entitlements of a total of brothers—Wan Jiazong (万嘉综), Wan Jiaqi (万嘉淇), Wan Jiajie (万嘉结), and Wan Jiakun (万嘉坤)—who later took aliases as Wan Laiming, Wan Guchan, Wan Chaochen, ..."
Tom Sito
Filed under: people, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 3D Animation, Color, Hanna-Barbera Studios, U.S.A., Walt Disney Studios, Warner Bros., Animator
"Tom Sito is a highly influential American animator, animation historian and teacher, who has often been considered one of the key figures in the Disney Renaissance."
Vatroslav Mimica
Filed under: people, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, Anime, Croatia, Technicolor, Vatroslav Mimica, Yugoslavia, Yugoslavia (Croatia), Zagreb Film, Author, Director, Screenwriter, Writer
"Vatroslav Mimica is a Croatian screenwriter and director who is considered one of the pioneers of the Zagreb school animation originated from Croatia and former Yugoslavia. Mimica entered the University of Zagreb School of Medicine before joining ..."
Walt Disney Studio
Filed under: studio, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, Silly Symphonies, U.S.A., Ub Iwerks, Walt Disney, Walt Disney Studios, 1923
"Walt Disney's Studio first found its headquarters in Burbank, California. A personal winner of of twenty Academy Awards within his lifetime, with a total of 63 total nominations, as well as 4 Special or Honorary Oscars, Disney is remembered as an ico..."
Walter Tournier
Filed under: people, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s, Documentary, Stop Motion, Technicolor, Tournier Animation, Uruguay, Walter Tournier, Animator, Artist, Director, Puppeteer
"Walter Tournier is a Uruguayan animator, director, and sculptor known for his specialization in stop-motion animation. Tournier studied at the Faculty of Architecture in Montevideo when he discovered his true interest in film (“Walter Tournier..."
Ward Walrath Kimball
Filed under: people, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, Color, Musical, U.S.A., Walt Disney, Walt Disney Studios, Animator, Artist, Character Designer
"Ward Kimball was a prolific animator for Walt Disney, part of the earliest team of core animators known as "Disney's Nine Old Men." While extremely influential, his importance in the early days of Disney has meant that biographers have encountered se..."
William Hanna and Joseph Barbera
Filed under: people, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, Bill Hanna, Color, Droopy, Hanna-Barbera Studios, Joe Barbera, Tom and Jerry, Tom and Jerry, U.S.A., Animation Supervisor, Animator, Cartoonist, Director
"William Hanna and Joseph Barbera were two animators from MGM who began their own animated television studio, Hanna-Barbera Productions; a studio which would dominate and transform the industry from the 60s to the end of the century.William Denby “B..."
Yan Dingxian (严定宪)
Filed under: people, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, China, Color, Shanghai Animation Film Studio, Technicolor, Animator, Character Designer, Director
"Yan Dingxian (严定宪) is the most renowned animator, character designer and director of early Chinese animation. He is the former president of Shanghai Animation Film Studio (SAFS, 上海美术电影制片厂), China Film Association (中国影协..."
Yōji Kuri (久里洋二)
Filed under: people, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, black-and-white ink, Color, Japan, Technicolor, Yōji Kuri, Animator, Artist, Cartoonist, Director
"Yōji Kuri is a Japanese animator, painter, and cartoonist. He was one of the most active and internationally prominent independent artists known for his satirical reflection on Japanese society through surrealist and extreme images of violence, deat..."