Experimental Animation Wiki

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A timeline-centric wiki tracking animated film experiments with image and sound since the dawn of celluloid. While the emphasis here is on the abstract and explorational non live-action work rather than the narrative, the first 30 years of film technique finds experimentation across all genres. Windsor McCay's "Gertie the Dinosaur" is just as seminal as Hans Richter's "Rhythmus 21" in this way. Overlaps inevitably occur and are substantial. Visionary film, avante-garde cinema, etc..

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 * "....Of all the early non-objective films, Ruttmann's have the clearest lineage of direct influence, although his films, even in their currently-known fragmentary and inauthentic (as to colour and music) state, were generally unavailable. The 'medium' for the transmission of Ruttmann's achievement was his younger compatriot, Oskar Fischinger, who was so impressed by Ruttmann's Opus I that he immediately set about making his own abstract films. Of all the early pioneers, Fischinger alone pursued non-objective film-making until the post-World-War-II period, and since he emigrated to America in 1936, he brought the living force of abstraction to a younger generation that included the Whitney brothers, Jordan Belson and Harry Smith." Excerpt from "Non-Objective Film: The Second Generation" by William Moritz, originally published in Film as Film, Formal Experiment in Film, 1910 - 1975. London: Hayward Gallery/Arts Council of Great Britain, 1979.

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