Boundaries were expanded, and new sounds found their way into the popular music. In fact, 1966 was the year rock music had been pushed to the limits. With films showcasing more adult-oriented content becoming a growing trend (which lead to the creation of a fair rating system that replaced the outdated and prudish Hayes Code), the once-bold and once general audience cartoons and feature films were being labelled as children’s stuff… Thus began an age where animation struggled with identity issues, problems were planted that persist to this very day.ġ966 was also the year The Beatles released their most ambitious album to date: Revolver. More and more, it was becoming known as a “children’s medium” and not the bold art form it was once considered. Nearly thirty years after the release of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, animation had somewhat fallen.
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When it was discovered that limited animation could produce big bucks, the market was spammed inside and out with very cheap, often childish TV cartoons that would be shown on Saturday mornings. The theatrical cartoon short was on life support, and few other houses made feature-length films. The next film I’m going to look at is a showcase in what you can do with a smaller budget… Sometimes an animated work doesn’t need all the movement and detail and weight of a Disney animated feature or a Richard Williams extravaganza or a Hayao Miyazaki epic.Įnter a film by George Dunning, who – like Williams – was also born in Canada but worked in England…ġ966. These three films are what I call “animation theses” because their existence argues that animation is indeed one heck of an art form, these are films that seek to prove the medium’s worth and strengths… The Canadian-born England-based animator showed what the medium could be in the post-Walt era with his unfinished opus The Thief and the Cobbler and all the work he and his studio did for Robert Zemeckis’ Who Framed Roger Rabbit.
The next two films came from animation mastermind Richard Williams. The first of the three films, Walt Disney’s Bambi, married naturalism with abstraction, creating one of the studio’s liveliest films that had such an accurate portrayal of wild animals.
Previously, I looked at three films utilizing full, big budget animation. My next pick for “Animation Thesis” is, unlike the three films before it, something that the House of Mouse was never involved with in any way… Yet, the House of Mouse considering doing a remake of it at one point in time… Fifty years ago, feature animation and popular music came together, and created something glorious.
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