Bambi Meets Godzilla, a 1969 short short film

By Jack Brummet, Film Ed.

Bambi Meets Godzilla (1969) is a cartoon created entirely by Marv Newland. Less than two minutes long, the film is a classic of animation—#38 in the book The 50 Greatest Cartoons (1994) [1].  It's wonderful.  I remember seeing it around the time it was released.  I haven't seen it since then...

[1]  Jerry Beck (ed.) (1994). The 50 Greatest Cartoons: As Selected by 1,000 Animation Professionals. Atlanta: Turner Publishing. 

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Mary & Gretl, a 1917 stop motion video by animator Howard S. Moss

By Jack Brummet, Archives Ed.

In the film Mary & Gretl, a fairy brings two dolls to life.  This is from a series of stop-motion puppet movies by the animator Howard S. Moss.

The book, "Origin of American Animation 1900-1921" describes the film: “Alice in Wonderland meets the Garden of Eden…[a] surreal fable of a drunk rabbit, bowling dwarfs, and the two bewildered girls..."

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Keep Drawing - a wonderful drawing animation by studio shelter

keep drawing from studio shelter on Vimeo.

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The Beehivetheory.com - Kees Vander Putten's dedicated site

I wrote about Kees Vander Putten's incredible video here yesterday. Kees now has the video up on his own site, that also includes biographical information and some explication of the symbols in the piece.


http://thebeehivetheory.com/
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George W. Bush gets stung (literally) -- The Beehive Theory: a "must see" video by Kees Vander Putten

Kees Vander Putten has just finished a very funny animated video, The Beehive Theory. We're down to The Final Three Weeks. . .what a great time to roll out this summation of our folly in following the leader.

TBT is a satire on George W. Bush's defense and warped theories of the Iraq war. It's short, sweet, and spot-on, with a great soundtrack.

I've met Kees a few times (he's done some animation where I work). He did the entire video on his own (except for creating the soundtrack). Interestingly, Kees is completely self-taught! The video was done in Maya, with a mental ray renderer.

I hope we get more Vander Putten videos soon. Thank you Kees!


The Beehive Theory from Kees Vander Putten on Vimeo.
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The first cartoon, Fantasmagorie, from 1908

Fantasmagorie is the first animated cartoon, ever (or to have survived), created by a French caricaturist Émile Cohl. The animation contains about 700 drawings, all of which were double-exposed. The cartoon has a running time of almost two minutes.

ÉmileCohl worked for a French studio--Gaumont--when he created this animation.
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Animated video with music by Jon Auer, and animation by Michelle Auer

A song/video--Adios--from Jonathan Auer's Songs From the Year of Our Demise, with his wife Michelle's animation.