Animator. Summer 1987. Issue number 19. Front cover illustrations: From the production of When the wind Blows. Top left: Jimmy Murakami adjusting furniture after the bomb. It shows the scale. […]
#19 Summer 1987
Dr. Scratch – My Favourite Shorts
Dr. Scratch (Paul Thomas of Tiger Trax Animation) gives us his top-ten short film choice. 1. UBU — Geoff Dunbar My lords, ladies and gentlemen, this is my favourite short, […]
When The Wind Blows film review
Blowing in the wind Brian Sibley has been to see the new British feature length cartoon When The Wind Blows. Raymond Briggs is triffic! As Jim Bloggs would say, “Absolutely […]
The making of When the Wind Blows
David Jefferson and Geoffrey Mackrill have been behind the scenes of TVC’s latest feature production When The Wind Blows, to reveal the process that enabled model background sets to […]
The making of When the Wind Blows – Page 2
“In some ways the success of The Snowman worked against us. When we went to backers to raise production money they wanted us to make Snowman II. We wanted to […]
The making of When the Wind Blows – Page 3
As soon as the papers were signed work began in earnest. The complete voice track for the film was recorded in three days. Neither Dame Peggy Ashcroft or Sir John […]
The making of When the Wind Blows – Page 4
Although the backgrounds are models they have the texture of a painting. “If they had been made to look like real rooms, which model maker Errol Bryant was quite capable […]
The making of When the Wind Blows – Page 5
See the next page for the scene as it appears in the film. page 1 | page 2 | page 3 | page 4 | page 5 | page 6 […]
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“I had the camera mechanism dated by a competent camera technician, the movement was made in 1914 and the gate in 1916,” says Friswell. It was converted to single-frame work […]
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When they were deciding on the type of film stock for the production Fuji was on the short list because it is a lot cheaper than Kodak film, but they […]
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On a good day they would shoot 100 feet of film, or about one minute of screen time. Sometimes it was much less, depending on the complexity of the shot. […]
The making of When the Wind Blows – Page 9
“There were occasions where we needed to take a wall out to allow for the back bulk of the camera. If we were moving into a room and panning to […]
Tribute to Norman McLaren
Internationally renowned animator Norman McLaren, who died on the 27th January 1987 at the age of 72, firmly believed in the efficacy of a limited budget to stimulate the imagination, […]
Tribute to Norman McLaren – Page 2
A period of development took place between l939 and 1941 during his lean years when working independently, and for the Museum of Non-Objective Art in New York, who commissioned five […]
Memories of Norman McLaren
On April 1, the Canadian High Commission in London paid tribute to Norman McLaren, one of the world’s great animators, who died earlier this year, writes Brian Sibley. There was […]
David Hand – A Guiding Hand
April Spencer looks at the career of David Hand, an American who influenced a generation of British animators. David Hand’s animation career may be divided into two main phases. He […]
Gaumont British Animation – A Great British Achievement
Ken Clark takes a detailed look at the animation studio where many top British animators got their start. The original concept of Gaumont British Animation, a studio of sufficient size […]
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Pete Dards and Ken Gay worked alongside Ken Hardy, with Brian Salt close by. They worked on such subjects as Human Digestion, The History of the Port of London (one […]
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“Hand put me to work on a very different style of film because the entertainment cartoons were costing so much. He told me, ‘Make an animated film with very little […]
Make Mine Music – Disney film review
Robin Allan gives his reassessment of a rarely shown Disney feature length cartoon that is out on video. It is forty years since the release in 1946 of Disney’s animated […]
Make Mine Music – Disney film review – Page 2
The four shorts that make up Saludos Amigos (1943) do not reflect much of this new mood, though the freedom of styling in the Brazilian sequence Aquarela do Brasil hints […]
Make Mine Music – Disney film review – Page 3
Without You follows. This piece was the least popular item with critics. Virginia Wright in the Los Angeles Daily News called it “completely uninspired” and David Rider thought it “glutinous.” […]
Make Mine Music – Disney film review – Page 4
Johnny Fedora and Alice Blue Bonnet must surely be one of the few Disney films with a violent urban background behind its story of two hats in love. It is […]