Theo 2016: BSA 106 film and animation of 1976

USA / Canada

Caroline Leaf created The Street (1976)

First started out making sand animations and moved on to create paint on glass animations

Belgium

Eddie Lateste & Peyo

In 1958 the cartoonist Peyo created Les Schtroumpfs (TheSmurfs) which first appeared as comic strips in a Belgian magazine

10 black and white animated Smurf shorts were made for Belgian TV in the 1960’s

In 1976 a feature length colour movie was released called The Smurfs and the Magic flute which was directed by Lasteste and Peyo.

Hanna-Barbera made an animated TV series of the smurfs in 1981 and due to it’s popularity, The Smurfs and the Magic Flute was released in the USA in 1983

Italy

Bruno Bozzetto

Created Allegro Non Troppo 1976

Focuses on different aspects of life using mythology and science fiction themes and set to pieces of classical music

Uses a mixture of live action and animation

Martin Rosen

Made Watership Down 1978

Story based on the dark and violent book by Richard Adams which depicts the cruelty of man and nature

Marketed as a family friendly film but is not considered a cute children’s story

Roger Mainwood

Halas & Batchler was one of the first studios to use CG, as early as 1969.

The short Autobahn 1979 was directed by Roger Mainwood who used a computer at London’s Imperial College but the primitive images it produced were little used in the film

The computer style images in the film were mostly produced by traditional animation techniques

Australia / Poland

Yoram Gross

Made Dot and the Kangaroo 1977

Used the technique of laying animated characters over photographic backgrounds

Sold well internationally and seven sequels were produced

Croatia

Zdenko Gasparovic

Worked for Zagreb Film and directed A Dog’s Life in 1966, worked for Hanna-Barbera in the USA and returned to Croatia and worked on the TV series Professor Balthazar.

Made Satiemania 1978

Russia