Animation Nation – New York Times, June 05, 2009

A look at a select forthcoming animated films. Read more at The New York Times »

Artefact 6 – The Pixar Story (2007)

Ed Catmull wanted to be an animator and artist but just felt he wasn’t good enough. When he took up Physics and Computer Science, he fell in love with Computer Graphics. Ed’s animation “Computer Animated Hand” featuring his own left hand was years later used in the film FUTUREWORLD (1976) and thus went down in history as the first use of 3D-Computer Animation in a feature film.

Artefact 5 – Walt – The Man Behind the Myth (2001)

This documentary directed by Jean-Pierre Isbouts and with Dick van Dyke as the narrator, opens with the premiere of MARY POPPINS in 1964, showing Walt Disney at the very height of his career.

In many ways MARY POPPINS is a culmination of Walt’s achievements in family entertainment, blending live action and animation in the way Walt experimented with it in the beginning of his career.

The 120 min. long WALT – THE MAN BEHIND THE MYTH extensively features footage from the Disney Archives, early cartoons, interviews and a form of comical short films invented by Walt Disney in the beginning of his career which he called  “Laugh-O-Grams”.