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Drawn-on-film animation

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may be included, any existing image might be distorted by mechanical or chemical means. A third method takes place in a darkroom, using unexposed film that is exposed frame by frame. The artists places objects onto the fresh stock and then uses a small light beam to create the images. This third
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There are two basic methods to produce animation directly on film. One starts with blank film stock, the other one with black (already developed) film. On blank film the artist can draw, paint, stamp, or even glue or tape objects. Black film (or any footage) can be scratched, etched, sanded, or
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Direct animation can be an inexpensive way to produce a film; it can even be done on outtakes, or discarded film strips from other projects. It is a form of animation that is inviting to beginners and accomplished artists alike. Norman McLaren wrote a short illustrated introduction "How to make
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Tess Takahashi. "'Meticulously, Recklessly Worked-Upon': Materiality in Contemporary Experimental Animation", The Sharpest Point: Animation at the End of Cinema. Edited by Chris Gehman & Steve Reinke. Toronto: YYZ Press, 2006.
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1961 – "O Átomo Brincalhão" by Brazilian animator Roberto Miller. He worked at the National Film Board of Canada and later hosted a TV show about animation.
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in 1949. Helen Hill published a collection called Recipes for Disaster that includes a wide range of approaches to creating images directly on film.
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created the first direct film screened to a general audience, a promotion for the British General Post Office entitled
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punched. Any tool the artist finds useful may be used for this, and all techniques can be combined endlessly. The
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George Griffin. "Concrete Animation." animation: an interdisciplinary journal Vol 2(3):259–274
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category of work has to be sent to a lab and processed, just like films created with a camera.
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may be preferred for their relatively larger working area, but direct animation is done on
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as well. Since the sound strip on 35 mm film is optical, it is possible to create
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as well as images by drawing or otherwise reproducing forms in the soundtrack area.
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Robert Russett, Cecile Starr: Experimental Animation: Origins of a New Art (1988),
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Watch "Animando", which teaches how to use the technique (along with 9 others)
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discuss their nine abstract films (eight of which are now lost) in their text
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produced hand-painted film strips, possibly intended for projection in her
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The first and best known practitioners of drawn-on-film animation include
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technique where footage is produced by creating the images directly on
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an experimental Direct Animation; taking the technique a step further.
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exhibited the first feature-length hand-painted film, the silent epic
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in the GPO Film Unit. Lye went on to create direct films in New York.
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animated movies without a camera" which was originally published by
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produced hand-painted films in San Francisco which screened at the
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Article about several experimental filmmakers and their techniques
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An article about contemporary american filmmakers in this field
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Drawing on film explained at the National Film Board of Canada
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An animation with scratched figures and hand-painted sections
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The Dream of Color Music, And Machines That Made it Possible
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Beginning in 1941, McLaren continued this work at the
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List of animated television series by episode count
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Index

Direct films
animation
film stock

Norman McLaren
Len Lye
Norman McLaren
Stan Brakhage
Steven Woloshen
abstract animation
projection
UNESCO

Steven Woloshen
film stock
frame
found footage
35mm film
16 mm
Super 8 mm film
synthetic sound
futurists
Arnaldo Ginna
Bruno Corra
Mary Hallock-Greenewalt
color organ
Sarabet
Man Ray
Len Lye
A Colour Box

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