Bigelow was born in San Carlos, California, the only child of Gertrude Kathryn (née Larson; 1917–1994), a librarian, and Ronald Elliot Bigelow (1915–1992), a paint factory manager. Her mother was o ...
Education and early career Weinstein was born in Flushing, New York. He was raised in a Jewish family, the son of Max Weinstein, a diamond cutter, and Miriam (Postal). He grew up with his younger brot ...
Year Title Role Notes and awards1967 The Tiger Makes Out Hap 1967 The Graduate Benjamin "Ben" Braddock BAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film RolesGolden Globe Award for New Star of t ...
Hoffman was born on August 8, 1937 in Los Angeles, the second son of Lillian (née Gold) and Harry Hoffman. His father worked as a prop supervisor (set decorator) at Columbia Pictures before becoming ...
As a student, Lye became convinced that motion could be part of the language of art, leading him to early (and now lost) experiments with kinetic sculpture, as well as a desire to make film. Lye was a ...
McLaren was born in Stirling, Scotland and studied set design at the Glasgow School of Art. His early experiments with film and animation included actually scratching and painting the film stock itsel ...
The English word Japan derives from the Chinese pronunciation of the Japanese name, 日本 , which in Japanese is pronounced Nippon About this sound listen (help·info) or Nihon About this sound listen ...
1958 Shogakukan Manga Award for Manga Seminar on Biology and Biiko-chan1975 Bungeishunjū manga Award1975 Japan Cartoonists Association Award — Special Award1977 Kodansha Manga Award for Black Jack a ...
In November 1991, the Hanna-Barbera studio and library, as well as much of the original Ruby-Spears library, were acquired by a 50-50 joint venture between Turner Broadcasting – which by that time ha ...
Melrose, New Mexico native William Hanna and New York City-born Joseph Barbera first teamed together while working at the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon studio in 1939. Their first directorial project wa ...
UPA was founded in the wake of the Disney animators' strike of 1941, which resulted in the exodus of a number of long-time Walt Disney staff members. Among them was John Hubley, a layout artist who wa ...
The use of budget-cutting and time-saving animation measures in animation dates back to the earliest commercial animation, including the works of Winsor McCay: cycled animations, mirror-image and symm ...
Early independent animation The history of animation is as old as the film industry itself. Independent animators have produced innovative, often experimental, shorts since the silent era.One of the e ...
Examples of professional animation cameras (35 and 16 mm) A partial list of manufacturers of animation cameras includes:Acme Tool and Manufacturing (USA)Crass (Germany)Neilson-Hordell (UK)Oxberry (USA ...
The term "stop motion", related to the animation technique, is often spelled with a hyphen, "stop-motion". Both orthographical variants, with and without the hyphen, are correct, but the hyphenated on ...
