BSA106 Animation 1976 -1980

USA/Canada

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Caroline Leaf created The Street (1976). She first started out making sand animations and then moved on to create paint on glass animations.

Belgium
In 1958 the cartoonist Peyo created The Smurfs which first appeared in comic strips in a Belgian magazine. In the 1960's 10 black and white animated Smurf shorts were made for TV.
In 1976 a feature length colour movie was released called The Smurfs and The Magic Flute was directed by Lasteste and Peyo.

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Hanna-Barbera made an animated TV series of the smurfs in 1981 and it was so popular that The Smurfs and the Magic Flute was released in the USA in 1983.

Italy

Bruno Bozzetto created Allegro Non Troppo in 1976 which focuses on different aspects of life using mythology and science fiction themes and set to pieces of classical music. The style is a mixture of live action and animation.

UK
Jeff Keen made The Cartoon Theatre of Dr Gaz in 1977. His films often mix stolen fragments of monster movies with sci-fi and home movies along with action painting and rough home made animation. He also made Instant Cinema in 1962.

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Martin Rosen made Watership Down in 1978 which was based on the book by Richard Adams that depicts the cruelty of man and nature. It was marketed as a family friendly film but it isn't seen as a children's story.
The short Autobahn 1979 was directed by Roger Mainwood who used a computer at London's Imperial College but the primitive images it produced were little used in the film.

Australia/Poland

Yoram Gross made Dot and the Kangaroo in 1977 where he used the technique of laying animated characters over photographic backgrounds. It sold well internationally and seven sequels were produced.

Croatia
Zdenko Gasparovic worked for Zagreb Film and directed A Dog's Life in 1966, worked for Hanna Barbera in the USA and also worked on a Croatian TV series, Professor Balthazar. He also made Satiemania in 1978.

Russia

Yuri Norstein created what is described as the Citizen Cane of animation, Tale of Tales in 1979, which was a follow up to the short Little Hedgehog in the Fog in 1975. The story consists of fragmented, interlinked stories with the intention of being like human memory.
It is made using multiple techniques, mainly cutout with multiplane backgrounds and foregrounds.

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BSA106 German Expressionism.

German Expressionism in film came about after WW1, after Germany lost the war. Germany wanted to revitalise the film industry and to create a better impression for the country. The German government subsidised the UFA (Universum-film AG), whose studios were the largest and best equipped in Europe. This became Germans golden age of cinema. German Expressionist film lasted from 1919 to 1933 when Adolf Hitler came into power. Unlike other Western films of that period that focused more so on creating realism, German Expressionism distorts reality to create an emotional effect. Expressionism films employed stylised set design, elaborate costuming, shadowy lighting that emphasises bold contrasts of dark and bright highlights and unnatural make-up. The settings are typically distorted and exaggerated, with key themes being madness, criminality and fracturing of identity. German Expressionism was a huge influence in developing the horror genre. They began to tell the story ...

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