~openculture | Bookmarks (10)
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Studio Ghibli Lets You Download Free Images from Hayao Miyazaki’s “Final” Film, The Boy and the Heron
Studio Ghibli fans are still pondering the meaning of Hayao Miyazaki’s The Boy and the Heron,...
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The Evolution of Animation, 1833–2017: From the Phenakistiscope to Pixar
This year has given us occasion to revisit the 1928 Disney cartoon Steamboat Willie, what with...
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Behold Soviet Animations of Ray Bradbury Stories
Sergei Bondarchuk directed an 8‑hour film adaptation of War and Peace (1966–67), which ended up winning...
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Behold a Surreal 1933 Animation of Snow White, Featuring Cab Calloway & Betty Boop: It’s Ranked as the 19th Greatest Cartoon of All Time
Of the three collaborations jazz singer Cab Calloway made with cute cartoon legend Betty Boop, this...
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Beethoven’s 5th: Watch an Animated Graphical Score
Stephen Malinowski is a self-described “Music Animation Machine,” with a penchant for creating animated graphical scores....
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Watch Dziga Vertov’s Soviet Toys: The First Soviet Animated Movie Ever (1924)
Dziga Vertov is best known for his dazzling city symphony A Man with a Movie Camera,...
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The Russian Animators Who Have Spent 40 Years Animating Gogol’s “The Overcoat”
“Steady Pushkin, matter-of-fact Tolstoy, restrained Chekhov have all had their moments of irrational insight which simultaneously...
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My Neighbor Totoro Inspires a Line of Traditional Japanese Handicrafts
We suppose it’s conceivable that a gift of a wooden Totoro figurine, hand-carved from a single...
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An Early Version of Mickey Mouse Enters the Public Domain on January 1, 2024
Happy New Year! We can now “do to Disney what Disney did to the great works...
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The Beautiful Anarchy of the Earliest Animated Cartoons: Explore an Archive with 200+ Early Animations
Early in his collecting odyssey, animation historian, archivist, and educator Tommy José Stathes earned the honorific...