AD Seminar in Contemporary Theory | Fall 2006 | Daria Tsoupikova | School of Art and Design | UIC Animation in Britain Len Lye George Dunning Bob Godfrey Halas and Batchelor Brothers Quay Aardman studio Nick Park

AD Seminar in Contemporary Theory | Fall 2006 | Daria Tsoupikova | School of Art and Design | UIC 1901 born in Christchurch, New Zealand. Lye was deeply interested in movement and wanted to portray kinetic energy within artistic works; he also drew on aboriginal art, which for Lye again represented a 'pre-rational' artistic tradition. Len Lye ( )

AD Seminar in Contemporary Theory | Fall 2006 | Daria Tsoupikova | School of Art and Design | UIC 1923 moved to Australia, Sydney to continue art studies 1924 returned to New Zealand to study Poyinesian culture and tribal art moved to London where he made drawings for what would eventually become his first film, Tusalava. The film was a painstaking effort, involving around 4000 separate drawings, but the result was a unique animated film that dramatized active processes of a not-quite-concrete nature. Len Lye ( )

AD Seminar in Contemporary Theory | Fall 2006 | Daria Tsoupikova | School of Art and Design | UIC 1933 Experimental Animation (aka Peanut Vendor) a three-minute puppet film sponsored by exhibitor Sidney Bernstein joinined the GPO Film Unit and began to experiment with painting directly onto celluloid, a technique that he pioneered A Colour Box In order to satisfy sponsorship requirements he had to include advertising slogans, but managed to do so without relinquishing his abstract objectives. Len Lye ( )

AD Seminar in Contemporary Theory | Fall 2006 | Daria Tsoupikova | School of Art and Design | UIC 1936 Kaleidoscope - a puppet film with Humphrey Jennings Rainbow Dance - experimented with the Gasparcolour process Trade tattoo during the war made a number of propaganda films for the Ministry of Information as well as filming British material for the American series March of Time. () Len Lye ( )

AD Seminar in Contemporary Theory | Fall 2006 | Daria Tsoupikova | School of Art and Design | UIC 1943 moved to New York 1952 Color cry 1958 Free radicals co-directed four educational one-reel films with I.A. Richards. This marked a new stage in his career, and in the post-war period, he continued experiments in abstract filmmaking, as well as making a number of kinetic sculptures exhibited Howard Wise Gallery in NY. Trilogy – kinetic sculture 1968 returned to New Zealand Govet-Brewster Art Gallery in New Plymouth, New Zealand Len Lye ( )

AD Seminar in Contemporary Theory | Fall 2006 | Daria Tsoupikova | School of Art and Design | UIC 1912 John Halas born in Budapest, Hungary 1914 Joy Batchelor born in London, England 1932 John Halas (János Halász) formed his first film studio in Budapest after work with George Pal. Halas & Batchelor Studios John Halas ( ) and Joy Batchelor ( )

AD Seminar in Contemporary Theory | Fall 2006 | Daria Tsoupikova | School of Art and Design | UIC Halas left Hungary for a job in Paris where he also continued studies he had begun in Budapest. During this period, Joy Batchelor was an established illustrator producing work for fashion magazines and newspapers in London moved to London complete the production of Music Man (1938), met Joy Batchelor, who also worked on the film. Halas & Batchelor Studios John Halas ( ) and Joy Batchelor ( )

AD Seminar in Contemporary Theory | Fall 2006 | Daria Tsoupikova | School of Art and Design | UIC 1938 Music Man 1940 Halas & Batchelor Cartoon Films Ltd was established in Bush House, Aldwych - the headquarters for the J Walter Thompson advertising agency. Halas & Batchelor Studios John Halas ( ) and Joy Batchelor ( )

AD Seminar in Contemporary Theory | Fall 2006 | Daria Tsoupikova | School of Art and Design | UIC 1940 Train Trouble for Kellogg’s Cornflakes and a cinema commercial for Unilever’s Lux soap flakes worked on public information films for government departments during the war late 1950’s propaganda and public information films Carnival in the Clothes Cupboard 1941 Dustbin Parade 1943 Health in Jungle Warfare 1950’s represented the true birth of the studio as a recognised source of high quality animated films. It continued to make public information films for governmental offices Animal Farm first English the feature-length production. Halas & Batchelor Studios John Halas ( ) and Joy Batchelor ( )

AD Seminar in Contemporary Theory | Fall 2006 | Daria Tsoupikova | School of Art and Design | UIC Animal Farm first English the feature-length production. Halas & Batchelor Studios John Halas ( ) and Joy Batchelor ( )

AD Seminar in Contemporary Theory | Fall 2006 | Daria Tsoupikova | School of Art and Design | UIC increased number of commissioned commercials, and in particular animated commercials forty producers of cartoon films with the arrival of ITV was promoted as the largest cartoon studio in Europe turn out 39 one-reelers for theatrical and Television release at least 10 industrial reels, and about 250 Television commercials Foo Foo Habatales 1960 Snip and Snap 1963 Automania 2000 Halas & Batchelor Studios John Halas ( ) and Joy Batchelor ( )

AD Seminar in Contemporary Theory | Fall 2006 | Daria Tsoupikova | School of Art and Design | UIC 1964 feature length animated film Ruddigore based on the Gilbert and Sullivan musical developed by Joy Batchelor. late 1960's sold some shares in the studio to Tyne Tees Television sold the studio mid 1970's bought the studio back from Tyne Tees Television European Folk Tales (1974), a series of thirty-three films co- produced with the Italian television station RAI. 1970’s thus became more concentrated on the European market and co-productions and less on the USA Great Masters series -Botticelli (1984), Leonardo da Vinci (1986) and Toulouse-Lautrec (1986) Halas & Batchelor Studios John Halas ( ) and Joy Batchelor ( )

AD Seminar in Contemporary Theory | Fall 2006 | Daria Tsoupikova | School of Art and Design | UIC 1920 born in Toronto study at the Ontario School of Art and freelance work as an illustrator, 1943 joined National Film Board of Canada, worked with Norman McLaren. Directed his first film the same year, Auprès de ma blonde, one in a series of 'Chants populaires'. George Dunning ( )

AD Seminar in Contemporary Theory | Fall 2006 | Daria Tsoupikova | School of Art and Design | UIC 1947 Cadet Rousselle Instead of conventional animation, the film used flat metal figures, treated almost as puppets, their position altered frame by frame worked for UNESCO in Paris under the mentorship of Czech-born animator Berthold Bartosch. further experimentation with painted designs onto glass 1949 returned to Canada and worked on a grant from the NFB to continue his experiments with painting on glass formed the company Graphic Associates with another former NFB artist Jim McKay to generate the commercials and industrial spots that provided his life's bread and butter worked on UPA's Gerald McBoing Boing television show in New York George Dunning ( )

AD Seminar in Contemporary Theory | Fall 2006 | Daria Tsoupikova | School of Art and Design | UIC 1956 moved to England to manage UPA’s new London office began The Wardrobe 1961 Dunning's production company, TVC, was producing about one hundred commercials a year, eight films for the National Coal Board's work safety campaign The Apple - winner of a British Film Academy award 1962 The Flying Man - won the Grand Prix at Annecy's International Animation Festival The Ladder - further developed the brushstroke technique in a story with the 'eternal triangle' theme Canada Is My Piano, a triple-screen film for the Montréal 1967 Expo. George Dunning ( )

AD Seminar in Contemporary Theory | Fall 2006 | Daria Tsoupikova | School of Art and Design | UIC 1968 Yellow Submarine, Beatles animation extravaganza produced by Dunning's company T.V.C. London. George Dunning ( )

AD Seminar in Contemporary Theory | Fall 2006 | Daria Tsoupikova | School of Art and Design | UIC George Dunning ( ) Yellow Submarine 1968

AD Seminar in Contemporary Theory | Fall 2006 | Daria Tsoupikova | School of Art and Design | UIC George Dunning ( ) Yellow Submarine 1968

AD Seminar in Contemporary Theory | Fall 2006 | Daria Tsoupikova | School of Art and Design | UIC George Dunning ( ) Yellow Submarine 1968

AD Seminar in Contemporary Theory | Fall 2006 | Daria Tsoupikova | School of Art and Design | UIC George Dunning ( ) Yellow Submarine 1968

AD Seminar in Contemporary Theory | Fall 2006 | Daria Tsoupikova | School of Art and Design | UIC George Dunning ( ) Yellow Submarine 1968

AD Seminar in Contemporary Theory | Fall 2006 | Daria Tsoupikova | School of Art and Design | UIC George Dunning ( ) Yellow Submarine 1968

AD Seminar in Contemporary Theory | Fall 2006 | Daria Tsoupikova | School of Art and Design | UIC George Dunning ( ) Yellow Submarine 1968

AD Seminar in Contemporary Theory | Fall 2006 | Daria Tsoupikova | School of Art and Design | UIC George Dunning ( ) Yellow Submarine 1968

AD Seminar in Contemporary Theory | Fall 2006 | Daria Tsoupikova | School of Art and Design | UIC commissioned by King Features in America - storyline and a visual approach capacious enough to sustain a feature and embrace a dozen Beatles songs. rotating the graphic style with each song Director, supervisor of the army of over 200 artists – 11 months worked with art director Heinz Edelmann, the German poster artist, Charles Jenkins, responsible for specific technical effects, animation directors Robert Balser and Jack Stokes; Erich Segal, script wwriter, Alison de Vere, the chief background supervisor; and John Coates. 'Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds' sequence Damon the Mower 1973 The Maggot -Annecy prize-winner 1979 died in London during the work on Shakespeare's The Tempest. George Dunning ( )

AD Seminar in Contemporary Theory | Fall 2006 | Daria Tsoupikova | School of Art and Design | UIC 1921 born in West Maitland, Australia educated in Ilford, and later at Leyton Art School graphic artist for Lever Brothers advertising soap and sausages for Lintas, gained work for the Rank- financed GB Animation unit. Worked in London on ancillary products related to the Disney-styled Animaland series Bob Godfrey b. 1921

AD Seminar in Contemporary Theory | Fall 2006 | Daria Tsoupikova | School of Art and Design | UIC 1950 he joined the W. M. Larkins Studio, which sought to draw upon modern art sources and comic strip idioms in the creation of sophisticated promotional and technical films member of the semi-professional Grasshoppers group 1952 The Big Parade formed Biographic Films with Jeff Hale, Keith Learner, Nancy Hanna and Vera Linnecar first commercials for ITV Polygamous Polonius 1961 Do It Yourself Cartoon Kit Bob Godfrey b. 1921

AD Seminar in Contemporary Theory | Fall 2006 | Daria Tsoupikova | School of Art and Design | UIC music hall routines avant-garde comedy political satire concerns with British attitudes to sex and social conduct surreal satire on the social identity of the 'small' man and the inhibitions of British masculinity 1964 left Biographic to form Bob Godfrey Films mock-erotic exploitation films (co-written with Stan Hayward) 1970 Henry 9 'til Kama Sutra Rides Again 1975 Roobarb and Custard Bob Godfrey b. 1921

AD Seminar in Contemporary Theory | Fall 2006 | Daria Tsoupikova | School of Art and Design | UIC 1978 Skylark 1979 Dream Doll 1975 biography of Isambard Kingdom Brunel, GREAT - Oscar-winning 1980 Instant Sex 1981 Bio-Woman 1983 Henry's Cat 1986 awarded an MBE 1994 Oscar nomination for Small Talk, 1995 asked by John Halas to make the British contribution to the Know Your Europeans series 2000 Millennium - the Musical amusingly condenses the whole of British history into a manageable half-hour Kevin Saves the World Bob Godfrey b. 1921

AD Seminar in Contemporary Theory | Fall 2006 | Daria Tsoupikova | School of Art and Design | UIC 1947 identical twins, born in Norristown, near Philadelphia 1969 graduated from the Philadelphia College of Art (illustration and graphics) and won a scholarship to the Royal College of Art, London. Made first short film at the School of Film and Television and met fellow student Keith Griffiths Stephen and Timothy Quay b. 1947

AD Seminar in Contemporary Theory | Fall 2006 | Daria Tsoupikova | School of Art and Design | UIC 1979 Nocturna Artificialia funded by the BFI Production Board – collaboration with Keith Griffiths Working together as Koninck Studios, with Griffiths surreal and fastidious puppet animation films, supplemented by design work for opera, theatre and ballet, TV commercials, channel identification footage, and numerous music videos, including the Stille Nacht series, and, less characteristically, Peter Gabriel's Sledgehammer. immersion in European art, literature, and culture the diaries of Franz Kafka Wladyslaw Starewicz, Walerian Borowczyk and Jan Švankmajer polish writer and artist, Bruno Schulz - Street of Crocodiles Stephen and Timothy Quay b. 1947

AD Seminar in Contemporary Theory | Fall 2006 | Daria Tsoupikova | School of Art and Design | UIC 1984 Cabinet of Jan Švankmajer Stephen and Timothy Quay b. 1947

AD Seminar in Contemporary Theory | Fall 2006 | Daria Tsoupikova | School of Art and Design | UIC 1984 Cabinet of Jan Švankmajer Stephen and Timothy Quay b. 1947

AD Seminar in Contemporary Theory | Fall 2006 | Daria Tsoupikova | School of Art and Design | UIC puppets construct their own sets arrange the lighting cameras atmosphere 1986 the Street of Crocodiles Stephen and Timothy Quay b. 1947

AD Seminar in Contemporary Theory | Fall 2006 | Daria Tsoupikova | School of Art and Design | UIC Stephen and Timothy Quay b. 1947

AD Seminar in Contemporary Theory | Fall 2006 | Daria Tsoupikova | School of Art and Design | UIC 1988 Rehearsals For Extinct Anatomies 1990 The Comb 1991 De Artificiali Perspectiva, or Anamorphosis 1991 The Calligrapher 1995 Institute Benjamenta (UK/Japan/Germany), inspired by the writings of the Swiss novelist Robert Walser collaborations with the choreographer William Tuckett in Julie Taymor's Frida (US) 2005 The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes (Germany/UK/France) Stephen and Timothy Quay b. 1947

AD Seminar in Contemporary Theory | Fall 2006 | Daria Tsoupikova | School of Art and Design | UIC Stephen and Timothy Quay b. 1947

AD Seminar in Contemporary Theory | Fall 2006 | Daria Tsoupikova | School of Art and Design | UIC Stephen and Timothy Quay b. 1947

AD Seminar in Contemporary Theory | Fall 2006 | Daria Tsoupikova | School of Art and Design | UIC Aardman studio Nick Park an Academy Award winning animation studio based in Bristol, UK claymation/stop-motion animation productions mid 1970s founded as a small backyard project by an ambitious pair named Peter Lord and David Sproxton animated sequences for the children's art series Vision On and Morph

AD Seminar in Contemporary Theory | Fall 2006 | Daria Tsoupikova | School of Art and Design | UIC Aardman studio Nick Park number of shorts for Channel 4; these included the Conversation Pieces series. These five shorts worked in the same area as the two shorts Lord and Sproxton made for Animated Conversations, but were more sophisticated. Lord and Sproxton began hiring more animators at this point; three of the newcomers made their directorial debut at Aardman with the Lip Synch series. Of the five Lip Synch shorts two were directed by Peter Lord, one by Barry Purves, one by Richard Goleszowski and one by Nick Park. Park's short, Creature Comforts, was the first Aardman production to win an Oskar. Park also developed the world-famous clay modelled shorts featuring the adventures of Wallace & Gromit

AD Seminar in Contemporary Theory | Fall 2006 | Daria Tsoupikova | School of Art and Design | UIC Aardman studio Nick Park

AD Seminar in Contemporary Theory | Fall 2006 | Daria Tsoupikova | School of Art and Design | UIC Aardman studio Nick Park

AD Seminar in Contemporary Theory | Fall 2006 | Daria Tsoupikova | School of Art and Design | UIC Aardman studio Nick Park 1989 A Grand Day Out 1993 The Wrong Trousers Oscar – winning 1995 A Close Shave Oscar – winning 2000 Aardman Studios "let the birds" fly with Chicken Run, Aardman's first feature film Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit - Academy award for full-length animated film.

AD Seminar in Contemporary Theory | Fall 2006 | Daria Tsoupikova | School of Art and Design | UIC Aardman studio Nick Park

AD Seminar in Contemporary Theory | Fall 2006 | Daria Tsoupikova | School of Art and Design | UIC Aardman studio Nick Park 2005 a fire at Aardman's storage warehouse destroyed over 30 years of props, models, scenery and awards collected by the company. This warehouse was used for storage of past projects and so did not prevent the production of their current projects at the time. An electrical fault was determined to be the cause of the blaze. "Even though it is a precious and nostalgic collection and valuable to the company, in light of other tragedies, today isn't a big deal."

AD Seminar in Contemporary Theory | Fall 2006 | Daria Tsoupikova | School of Art and Design | UIC Aardman studio Nick Park 1958 born in Preston, Lancashire started making films in his parent's attic at the age of 13.

AD Seminar in Contemporary Theory | Fall 2006 | Daria Tsoupikova | School of Art and Design | UIC Aardman studio Nick Park 1975 One of his earliest works entitled "Archie's Concrete Nightmare" was shown on BBC Television 1980 BA degree in Communication Arts at Sheffield Art School 1980 study animation at the National Film and Television School in Beaconsfield where he began work on "A Grand Day Out" joined Aardman Animations and it was here that he completed "A Grand Day Out" in The film won the BAFTA award for Best Short Animated Film in 1990 and was nominated for an Academy Award in the same year. worked as Director and Animator on numerous projects, including pop promos, title sequences and inserts for children's television.

AD Seminar in Contemporary Theory | Fall 2006 | Daria Tsoupikova | School of Art and Design | UIC Aardman studio Nick Park 1989 "Creature Comforts" - Oscar for the Best Short Animated Film 1993 "The Wrong Trousers" Oscar for Best Short Animated Film from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in March "A Close Shave"

AD Seminar in Contemporary Theory | Fall 2006 | Daria Tsoupikova | School of Art and Design | UIC Aardman studio Nick Park 1989 "Creature Comforts" - Oscar for the Best Short Animated Film 1993 "The Wrong Trousers" Oscar for Best Short Animated Film from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in March "A Close Shave"