12/29/2022 0 Comments Stick figure animator oskarFaith got lung cancer, developed her own style after John died, made films about environmentalism and living in harmony, about women's role in the world John and Faith made 21 films together, won 3 oscars Faith was an actress, knew Method and improv Marky Maypo commercial, 1956, voiced by their son, super successful and changed landscape of advertisement Pioneered use of top performers and imaginative dialogue in animations Style closer to European Impressionist graphics Film subject matter always guided by conscience, rather than financial need Promised each other to have dinner with their kids every night and to make a film every year John and Faith blacklisted from UPA, so started their own studio By 1953, Columbia demanded UPA only make Magoo cartoons. One of first serious horror stories effectively told via animation. Tell-Tale Heart, 1953, director Paul Julian. 1952: UPA became on watch by government for non-American content, told to fire 8 people for being Communists Film established UPA as dominant force in animation. Wanted colors to reflect mood of character. Goal: how few lines could be used in picture design. "Ragtime Bear", 1949, first Magoo cartoon. Influenced by artists who used flat graphics (Paul Klee, Pablo Picasso, Wasily Kandinsky, Henri Matisse, Joan Miro, Gijorgy Kepes (Language of Vision, every element of design should have a job, no extraneous shapes) 1945, changed name from Industrial Films to UPA. Contrast between background and characters, propaganda film. More about content than production value. New studio system, less strict roles, could move around/rotate jobs. Disney died, studio started falling apart, Michael Eisner and Jeff Katzenberg to save it Strike in 1941, Disney didn't pay or credit his workers, Roy settled strike while Walt went to South America Three Little Pigs (1933), most expensive cartoon ever made ($60K) Band Concert (1932), first Mickey cartoon in color Steamboat Willie (1928), 2nd Mickey Mouse cartoon, but first with sound Master of storytelling, introduced pencil tests Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, got cheated out of rights, so made mouse instead Walt and Ub moved out to LA, first successful animations were Alice in Cartoonland (Alice's Egg Plant, basically Felix the Cat) Worked as cartoonist at Newman's Laugh-O-Grams, met draftsman Ub Iwerks Spent most of his time on the farm in Missouri, which is why his films have pastoral feel
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