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About The ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive 28 Apr 2011 | 02:48 pm
PROJECTING ANIMATION’S PASTBy Stephanie Sapienza INTRODUCTIONI’ve spent the last two years of my life in a rigorous academic environment, studying moving image archives. This includes the history of t...
CREATIVE LEAGUE: Pop Cultural Literacy April 23rd 13 Apr 2011 | 07:11 am
Johnny Cash The first half of the 20th century has been described as “the golden age of everything”. That description really isn’t much of an exaggeration. The explosion of media- film, recordings, ma...
CREATIVE LEAGUE: Say Something, Dammit! April 9 3 Apr 2011 | 01:59 pm
PLEASE NOTE: The “Say Something” screening is now full up. Giancarlo will be contacting everyone who RSVP’ed. Because of space limitations we will be turning people away. Those who are confirmed shoul...
CREATIVE LEAGUE: Keaton’s Our Hospitality On The Big Screen 25 Mar 2011 | 05:24 am
The ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive Creative League will be screening a new high definition restoration of Buster Keaton’s breakthrough feature “Our Hospitality” Saturday March 26th at 7pm. Seating ...
BIOGRAPHY: Grim Natwick- The Greatest Animator Who Ever Lived 18 Mar 2011 | 05:13 pm
Grim Natwick with his "kid assistant",Chuck Jones (Iwerks/1933) PART FOUR: GRIM’S STUDIO GAG DRAWINGS AND CARICATURES Like most animators, Grim Natwick had a unique sense of humor. He was famous for h...
DESIGN: Grim Natwick Post-UPA Commercials 11 Mar 2011 | 11:25 am
Grim Natwick was a remarkable man. It’s mind-blowing to realize that the same man who animated Mariutch and Swing, You Sinners in 1930 animated Sonny the Coo Coo Bird three decades later! These drawin...
BIOGRAPHY: Berny Wolf 1911-2006 9 Mar 2011 | 11:16 am
Berny Wolf holds up a model sheet he created along with Grim Natwick for an Iwerks Willie Whopper cartoon. (See Al Eugster’s Photo Album) (Originally posted 9/13/06) We received the sad news today tha...
EVENT: Creative League on Dance March 12th 7 Mar 2011 | 12:09 pm
MARCH 12: Invitation to the Dance What art form combines comedy and drama with expressive pantomime and carefully controlled rhythmic movement? There are two correct answers to that question! Gene Kel...
HISTORY: UPA New York- Lu Guarnier’s Window 5 Mar 2011 | 10:22 pm
LU GUARNIER 1914-2007 Michael Sporn reported in his blog that animator, Lu Guarnier passed away on December 29th, 2007. (Read his post here.) He writes… Tissa David told me that the UPA studio was one...
DESIGN: Early 50s UPA Model Sheets 5 Mar 2011 | 10:13 pm
A couple of years ago, when Amid Amidi and I were working on Ren & Stimpy: Adult Party Cartoon, I lent Amid these model sheets to use in a proposal to Chronicle Books for a history of 50s cartoon desi...
