ABCD
Filed under: animation, 1980s, black-and-white ink, collage, Philippines, Roxlee, Silent, Stop Motion, 1985
Release Date: ?/?/1985
"ABCD, a five-minute animated short shot on Super 8mm film camera, critiques and raises social awareness about authoritarian and state violence under the government of Ferdinand Marcos (1965-1986), using a satirical narrative that grows “increasingl..."
Al-tariq illa Filastin (The Road to Palestine)
Filed under: animation, 1980s, animated documentary, Color, Cutout, Documentary, East Germany, Layaly Badr, Palestine, Palestine Liberation Organization, Stop Motion, 1985
Producer(s): Palestine Liberation Organization
Release Date: 31/12/1985
"This short documentary-style animation by Layaly Badr tells the story of Layla, a young Palestinian refugee who has been injured in an air raid. Layla and her friends use their imaginations to describe their home country of Palestine to each other, d..."
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..."
Gumbasia (1953)
Filed under: animation, 1950s, Art Clokey, Stop Motion, U.S.A., 1953
Producer(s): Art Clokey
Release Date: 02/09/1953
"Gumbasia is Art Clokey’s first clay stop-motion animation made as a student at the University of Southern California. The short animated film features clays forming surrealist shapes with pulses setting to jazz music "Don-Que-Dee" by Mel Powell in ..."
Gumby Episode Three: The Little Lost Pony
Filed under: animation, 1950s, Color, Stop Motion, U.S.A., 1957
Producer(s): Art Clokey
Release Date: 23/03/1957
"Gumby is watching television when he hears of a pony escaped from a nearby storybook. He finds the lost pony stuck to a train track while he's out playing, and learns that the pony, whose name is Pokey, is not really lost at all, just bored. Pokey ta..."
Hermína Týrlová
Filed under: people, Animation Types, Czech Republic, Stop Motion, Ziln Studios, Animator, Director, Screenwriter
"Often called the mother of Czech animation, Hermína Týrlová was a pioneer in the long Czech tradition of puppet and stop-motion animation. She helped to found animation production at the major company Ziln Studios, laying further groundwork for fu..."
Interplanetary Revolution
Filed under: animation, 1920s, Cultural Industries, Russia, Stop Motion, 1924
Release Date: 08/18/1924
"Comrade Kominterov undertakes an intergalactic mission to defeat the capitalists and fascists of Mars, and beyond, in this experimental parody of Aelita (Protazanov, 1924)."
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..."
Jiří Trnka
Filed under: people, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, Bratři v triku, Czech Republic, Fantasy, Jiří Trnka Studio, Puppetoons, Stop Motion, Studio kresleného a loutkového filmu, World War 2 ( WW2 ), Animator, Artist, Cartoonist, Cinematographer, Illustrator, Painter, Puppeteer, Set Designer
"Jiří Trnka was born in Pilsen (now Plzeň), Bohemia in the Austro-Hungarian Empire on February 24, 1912. He was a Czech animator and illustrator who specialized in stop-motion puppetry animation. While he was known for illustrating children’s ..."
Machi Uri no Shōjo
Filed under: animation, 1960s, Color, Japan, Stop Motion, Toei Animation Studio, 1967
Producer(s): Matsue Jinbo
Release Date: 1967
"Machi Uri no Shōjo / The Little Match Girl / マッチ売りの少女 (1967) is based on Danish author Hans Christian Andersen's 1845 fairy tale of the same name. The tragic tale depicts a young girl trying to sell matches on the street with her fat..."
Mr.Nanguo (南郭先生)(1981)
Filed under: animation, 1980s, China, Papercut, Shanghai Animation Film Studio, Stop Motion, Technicolor, 1981
Release Date: ?/?/1981
"The papercut stop-motion animated short is inspired by an ancient Chinese folktale of Mr. Nanguo, a man who pretended he could perform yü (竽), a type of wind instrument. Once upon a time, there was a king who loved listening to yü's performances...."
Neighbours
Filed under: animation, 1950s, Canada, National Film Board of Canada, Norman McLaren, Pixilation, Stop Motion, 1952
Producer(s): Norman McLaren
Release Date: 01/01/1952
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 ..."
Palestinian Animation Resources
Filed under: resource, 2000s, 2010s, 3D Animation, animated documentary, Color, Documentary, Educational films, Palestine, Papercut, Stop Motion, Film
"Layaly Badr’s Al-Tariq illa Filastin is an extremely powerful Palestinian film, but it isn’t the only one. We felt that offering up just one animation resource to account for the Palestinian identity in cinema, especially during crimes against hu..."
Peetrikese unenägu/Little Peeter’s Dream
Filed under: animation, Color, Estonia, Nukufilm, Stop Motion, Talinnfilm, 1958
Release Date: 1958
Rakvickarna/Punch and Judy
Filed under: animation, Czech Republic, Krátký Film, Stop Motion, 1966
Producer(s): Erna Kmínková Jirí Vanek
Release Date: 1966
""Two puppets, Punch and Joey, do battle to the death over the custody of a live guinea pig.""
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,..."
Roque Federizon Lee (Roxlee)
Filed under: people, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s, animated documentary, black-and-white ink, Documentary, Philippines, Roxlee, Silent, Stop Motion, Technicolor, Animator, Artist, Author, Cartoonist, Director
"Roque Federizon Lee (Roxlee) is a Filipino experimental animator, filmmaker, and cartoonist who is considered a pioneer in Filipino animation. He is known for proposing the 12 Commandments on the creation of independent Filipino filmmaking, emphasizi..."
Sen noci svatojánské (A Midsummer Night’s Dream)
Filed under: animation, 1950s, Classical, Czech Republic, Czechoslovakia, Fantasy, Jiři Trnka, Jiří Trnka Studio, Puppetoons, Stop Motion, Studio kresleného a loutkového filmu, Válclav Trojan, 1959
Release Date: 25/09/1959
"Sen noci svatojánské directed by Jiří Trnka, is a Czech animated puppetry film based on Shakespeare’s famous comedy, A Midsummer Night’s Dream. The film was the last feature-length film directed by Trnka, but one of the most remarkable (Osmon..."
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..."
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..."
The Mascot / Fétiche
Filed under: animation, Russia, Stop Motion, 1934
Producer(s): Gelmafilm M.J. Kandel
Release Date: 1934
The Wanted 18 (2014): Run Yara Run
Filed under: animation, 2010s, Amer Shomali, animated documentary, Canada, National Film Board of Canada, Palestine, Stop Motion, 2014
Producer(s): Saed Andoni Ina Fichman Dominique Barneaud Nathalie Cloutie
Release Date: 12/09/2014
"The Wanted 18 (2014) is a Palestinian-Canadian animated documentary about the effort of Palestinians in Beit Sahour engaging in the First Intifada (1987-1993), a series of acts of collective civil disobedience and protests against Israeli military oc..."
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..."