Bad Lit: The Journal of Underground Film has an interview with fiercely independent animator Bill Plympton. I met him once back in 2003 at a film festival in Chicago and he was the most engaging and approachable guy in the entire place. I attended one of his talks and enjoyed the spectacle of him selling his various wares out in the theater lobby.
This is one of the great gifts from Italy to the children of the world. Carlo Collodi’s 1883 masterpiece, The Adventures of Pinocchio, is the story of the wooden marionette who desperately wants to be a real boy. His adventures are full of mischief, wonder, sadness, joy, treachery, danger and all the exuberant life of a real Italian boy. This is the English translation by Carol Della Chiesa.
This is one of the great gifts from Italy to the children of the world. Carlo Collodi’s 1883 masterpiece, The Adventures of Pinocchio, is the story of the wooden marionette who desperately wants to be a real boy. His adventures are full of mischief, wonder, sadness, joy, treachery, danger and all the exuberant life of a real Italian boy. This is the English translation by Carol Della Chiesa.
I’ve never seen a film about making ink. This is a film by Tate Young for The Printing Ink Company. It features Peter Welfare, President and Head Inkmaker, showing us the entire process of mixing and testing colors. How often do you get to watch a film about a guy who seems to really love his work?
As neighborhoods in the United States begin to explode and disappear off the face of the earth due to a rapidly disintegrating infrastructure, distract yourself for moment and watch this film of how San Francisco looked just after the earthquake and fire of 1906. Incredible footage. These days stuff like this happens without even having an earthquake. You’re just sitting at home in America watching your TV and suddenly your children are on fire in their bedrooms and your entire neighborhood is an inferno.
Meg Park, a final year student at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, made this short film that reminds me of how to be a kid. Fantastic animation of the characters and their movements.