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Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
Eleanor knows she's a mess. But today, she will tackle the little things. She will shower and get dressed. She will have her poetry and yoga lessons after dropping off her son, Timby. She won't swear. She will initiate sex with her husband, Joe. But before she can put her modest plan into action--life happens. Today, it turns out, is the day Timby has decided to fake sick to weasel his way into his mother's company. It's also the day Joe has chosen...
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
"A picture book biography about the remarkable and often overshadowed career of Lotte Reiniger, a moviemaking pioneer, who first used her talent for hand-cutting paper silhouettes in the 1920s to create stop-motion animated movies. She invented the multiplane camera to give her animations depth of field and, with a small team, designed and directed the oldest full-length animated film in existence. Lotte eventually created approximately sixty films...
Author
Publisher
Disney Editions
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"This collection of quotations from the co-founder of The Walt Disney Company ranges from the well-known to the obscure, but all are assured to entertain, enlighten, and inspire. His words have been gleaned from publications, productions, and interviews over the breadth of his amazing career. Some are simple nuggets of homespun wisdom, while others are statements of knowledge gained while he crafted the enchanting films, televisions shows, and unparalleled...
Author
Series
Publisher
Raintree
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"Find out what's involved in becoming a film animator from a top professional in the field. You'll find out about the animator's heroes, the equipment and skills he uses, and the challenges of producing the illusion of movement from thousands of images called frames!"--
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"Lotte Reiniger (1899-1981) was a German film director and animator best known for The Adventures of Prince Achmed, which was released in 1926 and is the oldest surviving animated movie. (It came out a full 11 years before Disney's Snow White!) As a little kid, Reiniger loved reading fairytales and fell in love with puppetry. At school, she learned about paperschnitte, or papercuts, which helped her create her signature style of silhouettes. She grew...
Author
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
1996
Description
The timeless masterpieces of animation director Chuck Jones have kept audiences laughing all over the globe for more than sixty years. The cartoon characters he has shaped and brought to life - Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, the Road Runner, the Grinch, and a memorable menagerie of others - have, like their creator, become indelible icons of American culture. Packed with entertaining anecdotes - encounters with Charlie Chaplin and Walt Disney, life with...
15) Walt Disney
Author
Series
Publisher
Lucent Books
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.1 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Traces the life and contributions of the entertainer who created animated cartoons, adventure and family films, television shows, theme parks, and Mickey Mouse.
Author
Publisher
Disney Editions
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
Documents the part women have played in the history of animation, in particular, their contributions to the enduring success of Walt Disney Studios. From the earliest black and white Alice Comedies to the advent of CAPS and digital animation, these pioneering women brought hand-rendered animated stories to life at Walt Disney Studios and beyond. Extensively researched with the full support of the entire Walt Disney Studios archival resources, plus...
Author
Series
Bendy and the ink machine volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 10
Description
Seventeen-year-old Buddy has spent most of his life trying to escape the Lower East Side slums of New York City. Working as a delivery boy to support his family, Buddy wants to become an artist, a dream he's sure will never be realized. But that all changes when a delivery job puts him face-to-face with Mister Joey Drew, the eccentric owner of an animation studio. Mister Drew takes Buddy under his wing as an apprentice, thrusting him into a world...
18) Walt Disney
Author
Series
Publisher
Chelsea House
Pub. Date
1994
Description
Walt and Roy Disney started Disney studio in 1923 which produced Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, the first animated feature film, and Disneyland theme parks.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
"In their first year of college, two young women, one from a Florida swamp, the other from a Kentucky holler, both outsiders at their prestigious east coast college, meet in "Introduction to Sketch" and become instant best friends. A decade later, Mel and Sharon's lives remain intertwined, but so much else has changed. Now a semi-famous New York filmmaking duo, they draw upon their own pasts to make intimate animated movies, a process that has left...
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