Tag: animation

LGM Film Club, Part 47: Dream of a Rarebit Fiend, Animated Edition

By Erik Loomis

In General

On August 4, 2020

We’ve talked about the classic early lunatic 1906 film Dream of a Rarebit Fiend earlier in this series. Well, the basis for this was the cartoonist Windsor McCay who started a strip on people eating rarebit and having dreams. There were actually several movies then made based on the idea. This is the 1921 animated […]

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New Read: Animating Torture

By Christa Blackmon

On August 21, 2018

In my new gig as a blogger for the International Observatory of Human Rights, I talk about the ways journalists, human rights workers, and humanitarians are turning to animation to present graphic sub

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Fantastic Planet

By Erik Loomis

On October 22, 2017

I subscribed to Filmstruck awhile ago and have seen some pretty interesting films on it. But perhaps none as fascinating as Fantastic Planet, from 1973. A Czech animated film, except that the director

Mister Twister

By Erik Loomis

In General

On July 7, 2017

The story about Trump not having anywhere to stay at the G-20 meeting is hilarious to me because given what an unreconstructed racist our dear leader is, it is surprisingly close to the plot of the 1963 Soviet animated propaganda film “Mister Twister,” about a wealthy American capitalist who is outraged that he has to […]

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This Day in Labor History: May 29, 1941

By Erik Loomis

On May 29, 2017

On May 29, 1941, cartoonists at Disney went on strike. This ultimately successful strike was a critical point in the organizing of Hollywood and also marked the end of Disney’s run as an innovat

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Ethical Storytelling Through Animation: Sadnaya Prison and Ebola in Africa

By Christa Blackmon

On May 17, 2017

On Monday of this week, new allegations about the egregious human rights abuses of the Syrian government’s secret prison in Sadnaya surfaced: that a crematorium had been built to permanently dis

AND THEY TELL US NOT TO HATE THE HUN!!!

By Erik Loomis

In General

On November 1, 2015

October is over. That means the merciful end of pumpkin beer season, thank higher powers that may or may not exist. It also means the end of daylight savings, which is bad but I’ll take the deal if I don’t see any more pumpkin beer. It also ushers in “National Conversation on How to Make […]