Animator. Summer 1990. Issue number 27. Front cover illustration: Rolf Harris on the set of Rolf’s Cartoon Club. See the article The Rolf Harris Cartoon Club.
#27 Summer 1990
A reappraisal of Disney’s Melody Time
Time for Melody by Robin Allan The fortieth anniversary of Melody Time (1948) serves as an opportunity – and much more than an excuse – to reassess one of Walt […]
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There were more package films to follow: Song of the South (1946), Fun and Fancy Free (1947), Melody Time (1948), and The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr Toad (1949). All […]
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Once Upon a Wintertime (Director Hamilton Luske) This is a stylised story, sung by Frances Langford, of boy and girl romance on the ice, the human lovers echoed by two […]
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Johnny Appleseed (Director Wilfred Jackson) This is the story of “a real life pioneer” called John Chapman (1776 – 1847) who, “with a tin pot hat, a bag of apple […]
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Trees (Director Hamilton Luske) This is a visualisation of Joyce Kilmer’s famous poem, with Oscar Rasbach’s music, sung by Fred Waring’s Pennsylvanians. The music is too lush and we are […]
Martin Cheek stop-frame puppet animation
No strings attached! Martin Cheek Puppet Animation has specialised in stop-frame puppet animation films since 1982. Martin Cheek is a puppet maker and animator who works on commercials while developing […]
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The Portland Bill scripts were storyboarded and then animated to a pre-recorded sound track. Martin explained this was not as restricting as it sounds because there were plenty of pauses […]
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“We started doing models and animation for The Film Garage in 1987 and we have done almost all of their stop-frame model animation since. We did the dreaded Star Trekkin […]
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Martin’s puppet making commissions included a collection of Beatrix Potter animals to illustrate a Ladybird book. These were photographed against painted backgrounds. When he was making Jemima cat he studied […]
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Martin has a large box of oddments used in past productions. He picks out a model of the kind of iris found in a camera lens to demonstrate how replacement […]
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Whilst cartoons do not influence Martin in the same way as puppets, they are a source of information. “I don’t get my inspiration from Roger Rabbit for instance. I have […]
Father Robert Murphy meets veteran Disney animator Grim Natwick
After having been assigned over the years to seven Roman Catholic parishes in Kansas City, Missouri, I was assigned one year ago to a church in St. Joseph, Missouri. Kansas […]
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“I had an old friend, Gregory LaCava. I had gone to art school with Greg. He had moved to New York and was working for the Hearst organization. Hearst was […]
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“I also very much admired Marc Davis. He did fine work on Snow White, and was probably the best craftsman in the studio.” After several years with Disney, where he […]
Desk Top Animation
Animation is being used in a number of ways for diverse reasons: as a therapy, a teaching medium, a hobby, for entertainment, at seminars, in workshops, and in advertising studios. […]
Animation and education – Stan Heyward
Age no barrier. Animation is now in the hands of children, Stan Heyward tells Ken Clark. Stan Hayward’s original ambition was to become a chemist but when he received his […]
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“Using Delux Paint 3 software, colouring is a simple operation with the additional advantage of electronic manipulations. With Lux I can merge animations with live action video, and so many […]
The Likely Lads from Rolf’s Cartoon Club
Three lads most likely to succeed in the field of cartoon art have all appeared in Rolf’s Cartoon Club TV programmes and seem set on careers in the profession. By […]
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“Ashley Egan and I have something in common,” observed Rolf Harris, “We have both drawn for as long as we can remember.” Before his debut on the Cartoon Club, Ashley […]
The Rolf Harris Cartoon Club
Every week our children are encouraged by Rolf Harris to “join today”, and to date over 90,000 have enthusiastically accepted the invitation, reports Ken Clark. The membership of Roll’s Cartoon […]
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Often, parents of sick children will write asking for a special letter of good cheer; while other writers merely want Rolfs autograph. Many letters touch the team’s hearts such as […]
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“As a further encouragement in this series and to involve our audience at home we have organised an Original Character Design Competition. In the last programme the workshoppers animations were […]
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We are seeing films from Russia, Czechoslovakia and animation from countries where it is encouraged and subsidized by the State for the entertainment of adults. In this country we tend […]
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I was standing awkwardly in my little cockpit leaning across because I could not get any closer, drawing off the surface of the screen. I suffered febricities in my left […]