Experimental and Early Animation:

Artist-as-Inventor

Zoetrope• Invented in 1834 by

William Horner. • Called the “Daedalum”

('the wheel of the devil) and also the Praxinoscope.

• Popular in the U.S. from the 1860s

• Generally seen in amusement park arcades

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rmoAWgn7BIhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhDBGFFrmUI

Conventional Film c. 1915-1940

• D.W. Griffith: Birth of a Nation (1915)– http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9UPOkIpR0A

• Charlie Chaplin: Modern Times (1936)– http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYbsBcPDVQM

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Experimental Film

• Sergei Eisenstein: Battleship Potemkin (1925)– http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J74IKt8rxkQ

• Dziga Vertov: The Man with the Movie Camera (1929)– http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AInQ1x5_r3o

Avant Garde Film 1920s•Marcel Duchamp:

Anemic Cinema (1926)–http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXINTf8kXCc

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• Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali: Un Chien Andalou (1929)

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Experimental Animation

Hans Richter:

• Rhythmus 21 (1921)– http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhv2KpQGMqY

• Filmstudie (1926)– http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRYepu7Iqng

• 8x8: A Chess Sonata (1957)– http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ml4WA16Eo28

Experimental Film and Animation

Len Lye• A Color Box (1935)

– http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3y1offmJ4Y– An advertisement for cheaper parcel post!

• Free Radicals (1958)– http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGyVYDseGc4

Experimental Meets Mainstream

Max & Dave Fleischer– http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpdMnLx0Npg

• Minnie the Moocher (1932)– http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaZOXF83zBg