Animated cartoons

Duration: 17

Year Published: 1947

Creator: : the toy that grew up / A.F. Films presents ; produced by Les Films du Compas and Roger Leenhardt.

Format: 16mm

Color: B&W

Sound: sound

Credits: Leenhardt, Roger, production.; Burger, Dana, writing.; Levent, Pierre, 1910-1987, camera/lighting.; Delapierre, Guy Bernard, music.; Ratiere, Louis, production assistant.; Biro, Pierre, production assistant.; Kraber, Tony, narrator.; Radim Films, Inc., distributor.; Films du Compas, production company.

Description: Pacific Film Archive collection; non-circulating. Access by appt. only. CBPF.; Produced by Roger Leenhardt; photographed by Pierre Levent; American adaptation by Dana Burger; music by Guy Bernard Delapierre; assistants, Pierre Biro, Louis Ratiere.; Narrated by Tony Kraber.; The traumatrope, a child's toy, led Belgian physicist Joseph Plateau to study persistence of vision and to make a machine that animated static drawings. Emile Reynard developed it further and was the first to show animated cartoons.; PFA 1608-01-15265. D0320; PFA 1608-01-15265. CONDITION NOTE: 2012/10/19: Fair dirt and linear scratches

Metadata Source:BERKELEY ART MUSEUM AND PACIFIC FILM ARCHIVE