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Red Type

Date produced: 1965

Filmmaker(s):

Albert Noble

Description:

"Red Type is a novelty in animation. To describe the film would rob the viewer of much of the surprise element which adds a lot to the entertainment value of it. Let's just say this little gem was made from A to Z on a typewriter, both visually and audibly" PSA Journal, Sept. 1965, 51.


Roundabout to Maybee

Date produced: 1970

Filmmaker(s):

Charles E. Phillips

Description:

"Film is mostly animated featuring toy cars and trucks on paper roads with paper trees. The highlights of the film are a roundabout, which is a type of circular intersection and signs which have more than one meaning. The film also includes a human man and woman who seem to be driving one of the cars" Archives of Ontario.


Running Gag, The

Date produced: 1949

Filmmaker(s):

Jack S. Grassick

Charles Woodley

Description:

"Film about how to make films." Library and Archives Canada.


Senjō yori [From a Battlefield]

Date produced: 1938

Filmmaker(s):

Takeji Takemura

Description:

"Silhouette animation that narrated a story about a son at the war, who sends a letter to his father waiting for him in his homeland. The narrative unfolds as the father reads through the letter that reveals the son’s life and circumstances in the war zone. Contemporary reviews indicate that the film included scenes such as a group of soldiers trying to walk through heavy snow, as well as the soldiers attacking into the enemy’s territory. Praised as a jikyoku eiga (film of the times) that not only “touched the audience’s heart” but also provided a new direction for amateur filmmaking under the wartime emergency." - Noriko Morisue, "Filming the Everyday: History, Theory, and Aesthetics of Amateur Cinema in Interwar and Wartime Japan" (Yale University: PhD Dissertation, 2020): 213.


Senritsu [Melody]

Date produced: 1933

Filmmaker(s):

Mori Kurenai

Description:

"short abstract animation featuring visual rhythms created by the tempo and movement of circular, triangular, and square objects. Mori’s Senritsu was a black-and-white animation with synchronized music accompaniment, and Shimizu noted how the film attuned the visual images to the rhythm of the music, describing that “this kind of valuable experiment will inspire commercial talkies, more than Mickey Mouse and Silly Symphony do.” - Noriko Morisue, "Filming the Everyday: History, Theory, and Aesthetics of Amateur Cinema in Interwar and Wartime Japan" (Yale University: PhD Dissertation, 2020): 99.


Sexual Product, A

Date produced: 1972

Filmmaker(s):

Bea McKinney

Description:

"Produced by Bea McKinney, “A Sexual Product” is a short amateur film featuring stop-motion animation. McKinney, who taught filmmaking at King High School in Corpus Christi, made the film while studying at the Center for Understanding Media in New York in July 1972" Texas Archive of the Moving Image.


Shine On, Harvest Moon

Date produced: 1982

Filmmaker(s):

Sidney N. Laverents

Description:

"An eclipse of the moon – and a little animated love story." Oldfilm.org

"A time lapse study of the total lunar eclipse; July 5, 1982." UCLA Film & Television Archive.


Short Spell

Date produced: 1957

Filmmaker(s):

Stuart Wynn-Jones

Adrian Lamb

Description:

"A two minute black and white cartoon built around the animated spelling of short words which are quickly converted into the subject of the spelling. There is an effective sound impulse with the rapidly changing characters. Stewart Wynn-Jones has done a short bit of clever cine-cartooning" PSA Journal, Nov. 1957, 33.


Sightseer, The

Date produced: 1974

Filmmaker(s):

Karl Spreitz

Description:

"A mechanical toy from 1880 walks through a landscape created by Michael Morris" Karl Spreitz and Collaborators Archival Film Collection.


Solar Pelexus

Date produced: 1936

Filmmaker(s):

Mel Wesleder

Harry French

Description:

"Mel Weslander and Harry French of San Francisco, with 'Solar Pelexus,' were winners of Agfa's contribution of six rolls of film. As the misspelling of the title indicates, the subject was a farce portraying the journey of two men to another planet in a rocket." American Cinematographer, Jan. 1938, 28.


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