Legendary animator, producer and director Arthur Rankin Jr. Dies at 89
Arthur Rankin Jr., the animator, producer and director behind the whimsical holiday stop-motion TV specials Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and Frosty the Snowman has died at the age of 89.
The Children’s Film Society. India (‘CFSI’), is happy to announce that it is celebrating the 19th edition of its biennial International Children’s film festival popularly known as, ’The Golden Elephant,’ from 14 – 20 November 2015. India.
The Festival comprises of the sections namely, International Competition, Asian Panorama, Children’s World- Non-Competitive Section, Special Screenings. The films produced between August 2013 to July 2015 are eligible for participation in Com
Phenakistoscope (1831) A phenakistoscope disc by Eadweard Muybridge (1893).The phenakistoscope was an early animation device. It was invented in 1831 simultaneously by the Belgian Joseph Plateau and the Austrian Simon von Stampfer. It consists of a disk with a series of images, drawn on radii evenly spaced around the center of the disk. Slots are cut out of the disk on the same radii as the drawings, but at a different distance from the center. The device would be placed in front of a mirror and spun. As the phenakistoscope is spun, a viewer would look through the slots at the reflection of the drawings which would only become visible when a slot passes by the viewer's eye. This created the illusion of animation.
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