Thursday, September 28, 2006
Jerks in Print:
Last night my son, Tobias, picked up my copy of Max Fleischer`s the Einstein Theory of Relativity DVD and started looking through the reprint 1923 Garrett P. Serviss companion booklet.
I have looked at the booklet but was more interested in the Willis O`Brien Stop Motion animation on the DVD then I was in reading the 2006 forward to this reprint.
(RANT)
What?
Okay, this is it. Animation scholarship gets no respect. Here is a guy that calls himself a scholar that makes a big old stink, on the very same page as this bonehead statement above, about the false statements in the press about how only a handful of brilliant physicists could understand Einstein`s theory Thanks mostly to a journalist who couldn`t be bothered to investigate his story. And he can`t be bothered to check his own story, his own facts about animation because everybody knows that the field of animation scholarship is beneath them.
If you ask people on the street; who invented animation? Chances are they will say Walt Disney. If you ask them what was the first animation the smarter ones will say Gertie the Dinosaur. There is a VHS tape of dinosaur movie outtakes that says just that, that Gertie the Dinosaur is the first animation. Here this fool says it is Steamboat Willie.
I have to accept the fact that I am teaching a subject that deserves no respect at all because everybody knows that cartoons are just for kids and that no one over the age of 10 could give any # * !ing consideration to this stupid kids stuff.
I get so tired of this moronic misconception brought on by Baby Boomer TV babysitter mentality. Every journalist should be chained down, have their eyes taped open, and be forces to watch Grave of the Fireflies 10 times before they are allow to write word one about animation. Kid stuff my a* *
(/RANT) ¶ 7:57 AM
Last night my son, Tobias, picked up my copy of Max Fleischer`s the Einstein Theory of Relativity DVD and started looking through the reprint 1923 Garrett P. Serviss companion booklet.
I have looked at the booklet but was more interested in the Willis O`Brien Stop Motion animation on the DVD then I was in reading the 2006 forward to this reprint.
(QUOTE)
It first screened in February 11th 1923 and there are those that would contest Disney`s crown by making this a challenger for the title of first animation ever made. The only thing keeping Disney`s Steamboat Willie on the throne is the fact that this movie includes live action as well as animation.
Robert Godwin (Editor - Apogee Space Books) [2006]
(/QUOTE)
(RANT)
What?
Okay, this is it. Animation scholarship gets no respect. Here is a guy that calls himself a scholar that makes a big old stink, on the very same page as this bonehead statement above, about the false statements in the press about how only a handful of brilliant physicists could understand Einstein`s theory Thanks mostly to a journalist who couldn`t be bothered to investigate his story. And he can`t be bothered to check his own story, his own facts about animation because everybody knows that the field of animation scholarship is beneath them.
If you ask people on the street; who invented animation? Chances are they will say Walt Disney. If you ask them what was the first animation the smarter ones will say Gertie the Dinosaur. There is a VHS tape of dinosaur movie outtakes that says just that, that Gertie the Dinosaur is the first animation. Here this fool says it is Steamboat Willie.
I have to accept the fact that I am teaching a subject that deserves no respect at all because everybody knows that cartoons are just for kids and that no one over the age of 10 could give any # * !ing consideration to this stupid kids stuff.
I get so tired of this moronic misconception brought on by Baby Boomer TV babysitter mentality. Every journalist should be chained down, have their eyes taped open, and be forces to watch Grave of the Fireflies 10 times before they are allow to write word one about animation. Kid stuff my a* *
(/RANT) ¶ 7:57 AM
