Animator. Spring 1987. Issue number 18. Front cover illustrations: Main picture: Telecine suite at Rushes Postproduction Ltd in London. Inset: A still from a Honywell commercial.
#18 Spring 1987
David Hall’s Wonderland – book review
Robin Allan has been reading a newly published edition of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. It contains previously unpublished illustrations from the Disney archives by David Hall, and has […]
David Hall’s Wonderland – book review – Page 2
The animator will note in particular Hall’s ability to capture movement in the still drawing. Apart from the rabbit hole, there are many other examples – Alice’s changes of size, […]
Visit to Rushes Postproduction Ltd in London
Rushes specialise in video editing and computer animation. David Jefferson met Chairman, Godfrey Pye at their London premises. Rushes Postproduction Limited specialise in video and film editing, computer graphics and […]
Visit to Rushes Postproduction Ltd in London – Page 2
They have a double memory system giving a 160 second capacity, up to 4,030 frames can be prepared, all stored in Harry on video disc. The Harry system together with […]
Visit to Camera Effects Ltd in London
Camera Effects Limited has been going for 21 years. it is an optical house dealing in special effects. David Jefferson went along to their Soho, London studio and met Director […]
Visit to Camera Effects Ltd in London – Page 2
A lot of preparation has to be done before they start to shoot animation over live-action. First of all the live action company shoot the background. This is then edited […]
Visit to Camera Effects Ltd in London – Page 3
Each frame costs a minimum of £25 to produce the artwork, mainly because of the time involved and the artist’s experience. Even so, it would be much more expensive to […]
Sean Lenihan on Editing Animated Films
Sean Lenihan tells David Jefferson what is involved in preparing a sound- track and combining it with pictures to give a polished result. “The sound track is one of the […]
Sean Lenihan on Editing Animated Films – Page 2
Lenihan has been editing animated film from the age of 17 when he got a job at the Wyatt Cattaneo Studio as a trainee in 1969. “We did a set-pattern […]
Sean Lenihan on Editing Animated Films – Page 3
There are some video programmes that can be completed on U-matic without haying to go to one-inch. The finished result can be an off-line cutting copy. “Industrial promos and the […]
The Masters of Animation collection
John Halas talks about an exciting new series of programmes which form a world-wide survey of animation. Interview by David Jefferson. The idea for an animation show reel of the […]
The Masters of Animation collection – Page 2
For the programme on his own country, Great Britain, Halas has chosen the themes ‘pioneering spirit’, ‘diversity of styles’ and ‘adult entertainment’. “I have been very much involved with the […]
Whatever happened to Signal Film Unit?
Ken Clark has been finding out about a puppet animation unit that followed in the footsteps of George Pal. When Britain went to war in 1939, Gerard Holdsworth had already […]
Whatever happened to Signal Film Unit? – Page 2
Managing-Director Holdsworth relinquished his position as Time neared completion. Retaining a directorship on the board of Signal Films, Gerry left to take over the full-time running of live-action studio Wallace […]
The Video-of-the-Film-of-the-Book
Brian Sibley reviews animated film versions of three modern classics, now released on video. “There are,” wrote A. A. Mime, “two well-known ways in which to make a play out […]
The Video-of-the-Film-of-the-Book – Page 2
No such criticism can be levelled against another Rankin-Bass production, The Last Unicorn (Channel 5 video, CFV 01862) which is one of the most pictorially evocative cartoons ever made; and […]
David Hand (1900— 1986)
My introduction to David Hand was about thirty years ago when I used to possess a Gingernut Annual, writes April Spencer. As far as I can remember the cover was […]