A short history of the artist Mondrian set to boogie music, created and animated by Sheila Graber. The resulting animation runs to this day in the Mondrian museum in the Netherlands as an educational introduction to his work. Sheila talks about the making of this film in her book Animation A Handy Guide.

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Many people have asked Sheila Graber how she used to make animated films using drawings and cels. She made this film to demonstrate the process and the huge amount of materials that were used. She concludes by telling us if she were to do it all again she would use a computer.

Sheila Graber took her animation gear down to the Sculpture Hall of the Tate Gallery during their Blake exhibition. Here the film was constructed, at the same time demonstrating the wide uses of animation in an ‘Educational’ context. The film moves around some of Blake’s images to show something of his dynamic philosophy of Good and Evil.

Sheila Graber began experimenting with a Super 8 camera and trial and error methods of animation purely for fun in 1970. In 1974 she won the Movie Maker magazine Ten Best competition with “The Boy and the Cat”.