STUDENT ONLY SCREENING:
Tuesday January 6
7pm at the Telegraph
Saul Bass' Phase IV and Nigel Kneale's Quatermass and the Pit
STUDENT ONLY SCREENING:
Tuesday December 23rd
7pm at the Colodny
Bill Clark's Black Christmas
STUDENT ONLY SCREENING: Tuesday December 16th
7pm at the Colodny
STUDENT ONLY SCREENING:
Tuesday December 9th
7pm at the Colodny
The Thief of Bagdad (1940)
STUDENT ONLY SCREENING: Tuesday November 25th
7pm at the Colodny
Akira Kurosawa's SEVEN SAMURAI
NOTES:SEVEN
SAMURAI is a must-see! This is one of THE seminal films of all time,
and a wellspring for much of what passed for action films and westerns
post-1960 -- though Kurosawa's original is much, much more than that.
Public Screenings
The Center for Cartoon Studies hosts Animation Expert & Author, Vintage Animated Cartoons in White River Junction, September 23 at 7 PM
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The Center for Cartoon Studies presents an evening with animation historian and scholar G. Michael Dobbs on Tuesday,September 23, at 7 PM. Dobbs will sign copies of his new book Escape!, followed by a lecture and exhibition of vintageanimated cartoons from the 1920s-1940s at 7 PM at the Center for Cartoon Studies, 94 South Main Street, White River Jct., VT, with Q&A after.
Dobbs, who is currently writing a biography of pioneer animator Max Fleischer, will discuss the Pre-Code Fleischer Brothers animation of the 1930s (Betty Boop, Bimbo, Koko the Clown, Popeye, etc.) and its influence on the cutting edge work of the 1990s that helped re-define the medium for the 21st Century.
Escape! How Animation Broke into the Mainstream in the 1990s
chronicles the rise of animation with updated articles from “Animato!”
and “Animation Planet” magazines as well as new pieces. G. Michael
Dobbs saw the industry change first-hand as editor of those two
publications. Interviewing both the rising stars and the vets of the animation industry, Dobbs gave his readers a front row seat to an entertainment revolution.
Earlier
on Tuesday afternoon, Dobbs will be lecturing CCS’s comics history
class, “Survey of the Drawn Story.” CCS sponsored his appearance in the
Valley earlier this summer on July 3rd at Left Bank Books in Hanover, NH and the Main Street Museum inWhite River Jct.
That event filled the Museum to capacity and delighted an audience aged
6 to 60 years of age. This week’s event provides a new selection of
animated cartoons and further insights into the history of the medium.
A writer and former radio talk show host, Dobbs has working Western Massachusetts’ mass media for over 30 years with stints at The Valley Advocate, Holyoke Transcript-Telegram and Westfield Evening News. He's interviewed dozens of personalities as diverse as elected officials such as Michael Dukakis, Eliot Richardson and George MacGovern to best selling authors (Sidney Sheldon, Alan Dershowitz) to film legends (Vincent Price, Lillian Gish) to television personalities (Rick Moranis, Dave Thomas, Clayton Moore, Elvira).
Dobbs is also a nationally recognized animation authority through his position as editor of Animato! and Animation Planet, two magazines for animation fans. He taught as an adjunct faculty member for 13 years at Western New England College, instructing students in the development of mass communications and the history of film. His freelance writing has appeared national in Video Watchdog, USA Today and Rod Serling's Twilight Zone Magazine. He joined Reminder Publications as the editor of the Chicopee Herald and is now the managing editor of the company’s five publications, which reach about 130,000 readers in western Massachusetts.
His second book, a postcard history of Springfield, MA from Arcadia Publishing was
published in August; he will also have copies for sale at CCS. Dobbs
lives in Springfield, MA with his wife Mary, a disobedient Bichon and
way too many cats.
Max Fleischer and Koko the Clown: promo art for the silent Out of the Inkwell series
The vintage animated cartoons are all unrated but suitable for all ages; the event is free and open to the public. CCS students will also be selling their comics and mini-comics before and after the event. For more information, call 802-295-3319.
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