http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/visual-arts/2010/03/10/library-of-congress-molto-animato-exhibit-is-hardly-vivace/ News and Criticism on D.C. and Beyond Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:08:52 -0400 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/visual-arts/2010/03/10/library-of-congress-molto-animato-exhibit-is-hardly-vivace/comment-page-1/#comment-51433 Mike Rhode Thu, 11 Mar 2010 03:35:12 +0000 http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/?p=19988#comment-51433 Thanks for the comment and information. Animation is the type of comic art I know the least about. Did any silent animation shorts have scores that musicians in the theater would play? Thanks for the comment and information. Animation is the type of comic art I know the least about. Did any silent animation shorts have scores that musicians in the theater would play?

]]> http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/visual-arts/2010/03/10/library-of-congress-molto-animato-exhibit-is-hardly-vivace/comment-page-1/#comment-51432 Mindy Aloff Thu, 11 Mar 2010 03:16:50 +0000 http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/?p=19988#comment-51432 Thank you very much for mentioning "Hippo in a Tutu." This is an interesting (and informed) review. Just a note about music and sound in animation: Russian animators were setting stop-action animation to music in the first years of the 20th century; and there were other distinguished examples of it elsewhere in Europe through the 1920s. In the U.S., for hand-drawn animation, Max Fleischer, with his "Follow the Bouncing Ball" singalong cartoons of the mid-1920s, got a slight jump on Walt Disney in the coordination of sight and sound. This takes nothing away from Disney's stupendous achievements, or the early Mickey Mouse of the great animator Ubbe Iwerks. But in those days, Max Fleischer and his brother Dave were good, too. (The Fleischer studio went on to create animated films of Betty Boop, Superman, and many other wonderful characters.) Thank you very much for mentioning "Hippo in a Tutu." This is an interesting (and informed) review.
Just a note about music and sound in animation: Russian animators were setting stop-action animation to music in the first years of the 20th century; and there were other distinguished examples of it elsewhere in Europe through the 1920s. In the U.S., for hand-drawn animation, Max Fleischer, with his "Follow the Bouncing Ball" singalong cartoons of the mid-1920s, got a slight jump on Walt Disney in the coordination of sight and sound. This takes nothing away from Disney's stupendous achievements, or the early Mickey Mouse of the great animator Ubbe Iwerks. But in those days, Max Fleischer and his brother Dave were good, too. (The Fleischer studio went on to create animated films of Betty Boop, Superman, and many other wonderful characters.)

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