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Every other month, Animation Resources shares a new Reference Pack with its members. They consist of an e-book packed with high resolution scans and video downloads set up for still frame study. Members. make sure you download the Reference Packs before they expire. When it’s gone, it’s gone!

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In Reference Pack 022, Animation Resources is trying something new. Instead of providing our regular e-book and short films, RefPack022 includes a rare animated feature film in its entirety. We hope you find this to be useful to your studies.

Havoc In Heaven (1961/1964) was made by the pioneers of Chinese animation, the Wan Brothers. Based on the Monkey King legend, this film is unique in its use of color, music and design, drawing on Chinese art for inspiration instead of imitating Western models. We are proud to be able to present this important film to our members for their study and reference. The video file has been cleaned up and deinterlaced, so you can step through forwards and backwards and study the animation.

Also included is a half hour documentary on the Wan Brothers that shows clips from their films and tells their story from childhood to becoming recognized as treasured artistic mentors to the Chinese animation industry. Both the feature and the documentary are in Chinese, but our Members Only page includes a detailed synoposis translated into English.

That’s not all! Our bonus features this time include two classic books by the British cartoonist H. M. Bateman, Suburbia and Burlesques. Bateman’s keenly observed caricatures shine a light on the human foibles and sense of humor of British culture in the roaring 20s. The two books are presented as a high resolution PDF file ready to print for your reference on letter sized three ring paper.

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Animation Resources is dedicated to helping creative artists raise the bar for the art of animation through self study and research. Reference Pack 022 pulls out all the stops with over two hours of rare animation and a 135 page downloadable e-book. If you aren’t a member of Animation Resources yet, YOU SHOULD BE!

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Every other month, Animation Resources shares a new Reference Pack with its members. They consist of an e-book packed with high resolution scans and video downloads set up for still frame study. Members. make sure you download the Reference Packs before they expire. When it’s gone, it’s gone!

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This RefPack includes the second volume of cartoons from Esquire. To commemorate its first five years in business, Esquire planned an annual gathering together the best cartoons from 1933 to 1937. The book was never published, but Animation Resources was given access to the only remaining prototype of the book.

Also included are two brilliant animated films set to the music of Mozart by Lotte Reiniger. Reiniger’s technique of silhouette animation using jointed paper puppets is rarely used today. But it provides a good model for designing asset based Flash animation.

The Reference Pack features three cartoons from the Terry-Toons studio. Animation histories describe Terry cartoons as all looking basically the same, but nothing could be further from the truth. These three cartoons don’t just look different from each other, the style of the animation changes from scene to scene!

Beginning this time, we are including a bonus download from one of our earlier RefPacks. This time the bonus is a rare industrial film from the Paul Fennell studios. Titled “Charms B.G.”, this sales film in Technicolor was designed by the legendary layout artist, Ed Benedict.

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REFPACK 016

May-June 2016

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Every other month, members of Animation Resources are given access to an exclusive Members Only Reference Pack. These downloadable files are high resolution e-books on a variety of educational subjects and rare cartoons from the collection of Animation Resources in DVD quality. Our current Reference Pack has just been released. If you are a member, click through the link to access the MEMBERS ONLY DOWNLOAD PAGE. If you aren’t a member yet, please JOIN ANIMATION RESOURCES. It’s well worth it.

DVD QUALITY VIDEO:

Two Fleischer Screen Songs

“Tune Up And Sing” (1934) “Let’s All Sing Like The Birdies Sing” (1934)

When the Hayes Office took aim at risqué humor in the movies, Fleischer’s Betty Boop cartoons were square in its crosshairs. The difference between the 1933 Betty Boop cartoons and the ones from 1934 is stark, and the series never really recovered from the blow. The Screen Songs weren’t hit nearly as hard, but you can still see that when it comes to gags, punches are being pulled. To add insult to injury, when these cartoons were syndicated to television in the late 1950s, the live action celebrity cameos and singalong sequences were usually cut out, and that is the case with the two examples we are sharing in this Reference Pack. But because of the way the cartoons were constructed, the edit isn’t too noticeable and they play well as short cartoons.

In the home video era, the Fleischer Screen Songs cartoons are missing in action. Only a tiny handful have been released. Animation Resources would like to thank our Advisory Board Member, Steve Stanchfield for sharing these rare films with us.

REFPACK016: Two Fleischer Screen Songs

MP4 Video File / 8:34 / 154 MB Download

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