Sunday, May 27, 2007
Dark Ages of Animaiton:
Still wandering in the stacks and will be hunting thought them for weeks to come. Here is a lesser gem in passing and I do mean lesser. Since I teach History of Animation at a number of Universities I need samples of all animation, not just the good stuff.
From the late 50s to early 70s animation went through a crative slump only a Boston Baseball team could understand. There is more bad animation from this period than at any other time in the 100 year history of our sport.
There are worse animations than Courageous Cat, Jerry Beck shows them every year at Comic Con, but this Bob Kane rework of his one hit (Batman) is right down there with some of the worst.
Sid Marcus & Reuben Timmins of Trans Artist Productions put this clunker together with Bob Kane for the 1961 TV season. Hey, it was the times.
There is a reason they call it the Dark Ages of Animation. They only wanted bad at this time. It was the ideas of UPA beaten to death by people that didn`t have a clue who forced people that knew what animation really was to do stuff that was less that they could do.
Faster Cheaper! Less than less is more. And lets do the same thing with story. It`s only for kids and they are stupid. Right! And they wonder what went wrong with my generation.
It pains me to see good animator`s names on the credits of animations form this time. They had to work to eat so they had to word for Ad Agency fools with no training. It almost killed animation. And here is a little evidence of that painful time. Let`s not forget Minute Mouse, the Rodent Wonder.
Larry Loc (ASIFA Blog Guy) ¶ 7:15 AM
Still wandering in the stacks and will be hunting thought them for weeks to come. Here is a lesser gem in passing and I do mean lesser. Since I teach History of Animation at a number of Universities I need samples of all animation, not just the good stuff.
From the late 50s to early 70s animation went through a crative slump only a Boston Baseball team could understand. There is more bad animation from this period than at any other time in the 100 year history of our sport.
There are worse animations than Courageous Cat, Jerry Beck shows them every year at Comic Con, but this Bob Kane rework of his one hit (Batman) is right down there with some of the worst.
Sid Marcus & Reuben Timmins of Trans Artist Productions put this clunker together with Bob Kane for the 1961 TV season. Hey, it was the times.
There is a reason they call it the Dark Ages of Animation. They only wanted bad at this time. It was the ideas of UPA beaten to death by people that didn`t have a clue who forced people that knew what animation really was to do stuff that was less that they could do.
Faster Cheaper! Less than less is more. And lets do the same thing with story. It`s only for kids and they are stupid. Right! And they wonder what went wrong with my generation.
It pains me to see good animator`s names on the credits of animations form this time. They had to work to eat so they had to word for Ad Agency fools with no training. It almost killed animation. And here is a little evidence of that painful time. Let`s not forget Minute Mouse, the Rodent Wonder.
Larry Loc (ASIFA Blog Guy) ¶ 7:15 AM
