Animation: A World History : Volume I: Foundations - The Golden Age (Hardcover)

What it is

Mapping chaos

Turning points

Periods

Guilty, but with an explanation

Traces

You won’t find…

A hybrid

Archaeology

Phidias’s animating chisel

Representation

The motion analysis

Music

The meaning of the implicit movement

An object of philosophy

Pre-history 1

Science, science, science

Writing with light

Pre-history 2

A static mirror?

The flipbook

Emile Reynaud

Birth of the theatre optique

The theatre optique and how it worked

On with the lantern show

Colour Music

Frame-by-frame

Arthur Melbourne-Cooper

Walter Robert Booth

Edwin S. Porter

James Stuart Blackton

The Cradle

Days of heaven and hell

Culture

Cinema

Narrative, non-narrative

Fantasmagorie

The Fathers

Emile Cohl

Georges Melies

The first abstract cinema

Arnaldo Ginna

Leopold Survage

Winsor McCay

Colour

The Fathers’ Sons

Comics, animation, cinema

Birth of the industry

Raoul Barre

Cut-Insert-Replace

John Randolph Bray

The IFS

Other American artists

Willis O’Brien

Instruments and language

The Fleischer Brothers

Felix, Pat and Otto Messmer

Terry and the Fables

Bowers unbound

Lantz’s debut

Bray, Hurd, Mintz

Sarg and Dawley

The young Walt Disney

The individualists

Great Britain

Ireland

France

Lortac

Advertisers and illustrators

Germany: Animation in the Weimar Republic

The matrix

Walther Ruttmann

Viking Eggeling

Hans Richter

Lotte Reiniger

Austria

Switzerland

Denmark

Storm P.

Sweden

Grogg the sailor man

Other Swedish animators

Norway

Finland

Spain

Portugal

Hungary

The rest of Europe

Russia/Soviet Union

Ladislas Starewich

After the revolution

Ukraine

Japan

The narrator

Mexico

Colombia

Brazil

Chile

Argentina: the world’s first animated feature film

Quirino Cristiani

Union of South Africa

Australia

Steamboat Willie

Sync or sink

The non-concurrence factor

Sound

Walt Disney the tycoon

The fixed star

Human or animal?

Years of expansion

The ones who made the magic

Another Disney folly

The pillar brother

At Disney's animation declines

The Twelve Rules of the Nine Men

Animation heads west

The masters’ master

Lantz, from the Rabbit to the Woodpecker

Ub Iwerks

Mintz, Krazy and Columbia

Van Beuren

Terrytoons and Mighty Mouse

The Fleischers: Betty Boop, Popeye and two feature films

Warner Brothers

Tex Avery

Bob Clampett

Carl W. Stalling, musical animator

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer: Cat, Mouse, Tex

Tashlin the wanderer

The American avant-garde

Animation in Canada

Great Britain

Len Lye

France

Anthony Gross

Berthold Bartosch

Alexandre Alexeieff

Belgium

The Netherlands

Germany in Nazi time

Hans Fischerkoesen

The Brothers Diehl

Heinz Tischmeyer

Hans Held

Wolfgang Kaskeline

Avant-garde

Oskar Fischinger

Austria

Switzerland

Denmark

Norway

Sweden

Czechoslovakia

Poland

Stefan and Franciszka Themerson

Hungary

George Pal

Yugoslavia

Italy

Greece

Spain

Catalan vibrancy

The Edad Dorada

Barcelona’s entrepreneurs

Barcelonese feature-length films

Madrid

Valencia

Portugal

Russia

Ukraine

Lithuania

Azerbaijan

Armenia

Georgia

Japan

Ofuji Noburo

Masaoka Kenzo

Kimura Hakuzan

A Brave New World

The changed frame around

Mochinaga Tadahito and his legacy

Ichikawa Kon

China

Mexico

Colombia

Venezuela

Brazil

Argentina

Egypt

Union of South Africa