March 22 — Stop-Motion Animation Pioneers at IMA

Stop-Motion animation is one of film's oldest techniques. It has also transformed the way we think about thinking and see seeing.

When: Sunday March 22, 1:30-3:00 PM
Where: Indianapolis Museum of Art, Tobias Theater

Adults $9 / Members $5 / Students with ID $7/ Youth 12 & under $5. Purchase tickets at www.imamuseum.org, by calling 317-955-2339 or at the door.

Stop-Motion Animation Pioneers
Stop-motion animation is as old as film itself, and a key technique for special effects until computer animation arrived. View 10 rare early 20th-century “stop-mo” shorts made by three animators: Willis O’Brien, Ladislaus Starevitch and Charley Bowers. O’Brien is most famous for the stop-mo effects in King Kong (1933); see his stop-mo dinosaurs in this program.

Starevitch’s painstaking Frogland is an Aesop’s fable featuring frogs searching for a king. Bowers started as a newspaper cartoonist; his “It’s a Bird” (1930) was later touted as a surrealist treasure. Films introduced by film historian Eric Grayson.
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