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John Whitney is known as an inventor, composer and animator who was born in Pasadena, California on April 8 th , 1917. He died at the age...

Bugs Bunny was always kind of my favorite Looney Toons. He wasn't the cutest or the sassiest, but I really liked the way he calmly and c...

After seeing "What's Opera, Doc?" last week, I thought of another opera-esque cartoon involving Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd, ...

When I was growing up in the suburbs of New Jersey I met a boy named Harry Smith. He was in my chorus class, and cried often because he was ...

I was going to write about Norman McLaren but it seems a lot of people already have, so I looked into Len Lye's work more thoroughly. T...

While Norman McLaren's work was utterly tasteful, I feel that Brakhage displayed an elegance rarely seen. One might say McLaren is to M...

Kool Kat Mary Ellen! Being the only female animator on the list of people we could pick to write about, I thought Mary Ellen Bute would be ...

I was completely taken aback by the beauty of Duo Concertantes by Larry Jordan. According to scientific studies performed in Switzerland by...

Len Lye(1901-1980) was a New Zealand born artist dedicated to motion. Len Lye found a way to answer the question of creating a 1:1 relations...

Whitney's interest in spirituality through meditation and music is clear in his 1975 vibrant and hypnotizing animation, "Arabesqu...

William S. Burroughs has been a major inspiration for me for a long time, and I've read his works extensively, as well as books about hi...

Although I enjoy much cameraless animation, I can never really get into Stan Brakhages “Mothlight” (1963). There is no denying that an ung...