Animation: A World History

Volume I: Foundations - The Golden Age

Giannalberto Bendazzi

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2015
• Print ISBN: 9781138035317
• eBook ISBN: 9781317520832
• Topic: Computer Science
• Subtopic: Programming Games
• Index: Computer Science

A continuation of 1994's groundbreaking Cartoons, Giannalberto Bendazzi's Animation: A World History is the largest, deepest, most comprehensive text of its kind, based on the idea that animation is an art form that deserves its own place in scholarship. Bendazzi delves beyond just Disney, offering readers glimpses into the animation of Russia, Africa, Latin America, and other often-neglected areas and introducing over fifty previously undiscovered artists. Full of first-hand, never before investigated, and elsewhere unavailable information, Animation: A World History encompasses the history of animation production on every continent over the span of three centuries.

Volume I traces the roots and predecessors of modern animation, the history behind Émile Cohl's Fantasmagorie, and twenty years of silent animated films. Encompassing the formative years of the art form through its Golden Age, this book accounts for animation history through 1950 and covers everything from well-known classics like Steamboat Willie to animation in Egypt and Nazi Germany. With a wealth of new research, hundreds of photographs and film stills, and an easy-to-navigate organization, this book is essential reading for all serious students of animation history.

Key Features

• Over 200 high quality head shots and film stills to add visual reference to your research
• Detailed information on hundreds of never-before researched animators and films
• Coverage of animation from more than 90 countries and every major region of the world
• Chronological and geographical organization for quick access to the information you're looking for

Index

• Abajo la careta or La república de Jauja (Down with the Mask or The Republic of Plenty
  • Ducaud) 87
• A Ballada da Fonte (The Ballad of the Source
  • Carlos) 72
• ABC Film 162
• Åberg, Émile 68
• Abreu, Vitorino 71
• Abstraction and Empathy: Essays in the Psychology of Style (Worringer) 30
• Acciaio (Steel
  • Ruttmann) 57
• Acevedo brothers 190
• Acosta (Alcorta), Miguel Angel 85
• Acres, Birt 21, 22
• Actualidades Valle (newsreel) 86
• Adam Raises Cain (Sarg-Dawley) 49–50
• Adam-Salomon, Antoine 16, 17
• Admiral Palads (Admiral Palace
  • Klouman) 69
• Adolfo XIII (Spain) 169
• The Adventures of Ben Cockles (Lee) 88
• The Adventures of Münchhausen (Cherkes) 80
• Adventures of Prince Achmed (Reiniger) 90–1, 138, 153
• The Adventures of Ranger Focus (Lee) 88
• advertisements 23, 64n40, 157, 159, 167, 185, 192; see also commercials
• Aelita (Protazanov) 76, 78
• The Aerial Anarchists (Booth) 24
• The Aerial Submarine (Booth) 24
• Aesop’s Fables 46–7, 114
• Aesop’s Fables Studios 44
• A Extraordinária Aventura do Zeca (Zeca’s Extraordinary Adventure
  • Coelho et al.) 173
• Africa, animation in 88–9, 194–5
• African Film Productions 88, 194
• African Film Trust 88
• Afrika (Weichberger) 159
• Agfacolor 161, 162
• Agren, Emile 162
• Aida (Wozak/Thomas) 158
• The Airship Destroyer (Booth) 23
• Aito sunnuntaimetsästäjä (A True Sunday Hunter
  • Salén/N yberg) 70
• Akhundov, Aga-Nagi 179
• Alad...

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Half-Title Page
• Epigraph
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Table Of Contents
• Biography
• Acknowledgements
• The First Period
• The Second Period
• The Third Period
• Index