Moving Pictures: A History of Hand-Drawn Animation, 1912 to 1990

August 18, 2018 @ 1:30 pm - 3:30 pm

SATURDAY ART TALKS
Moving Pictures: A History of Hand-Drawn Animation, 1912 to 1990
Saturday, August 18
1:30 p.m

Through animated film clips, interviews, and documentary footage, Curator of Exhibitions Jesse Kowalski will discuss how animated film evolved from its earliest stages—from experimental films to cartoon shorts from the 1930s through the 1950s and the transition to television and evolution of Saturday morning cartoons. Learn about the people and studios behind some of animation’s most beloved characters, including Betty Boop, Popeye, Mickey Mouse, Bugs Bunny, Tom and Jerry, and The Flintstones. The laws, social changes, and evolution in technology that precipitated the move of animation from theaters to televisions to streaming video will also be explored. Free for Museum members, or included with Museum admission.

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Land Acknowledgement

It is with gratitude and humility that we acknowledge that we are learning, speaking and gathering on the ancestral homelands of the Mohican people, who are the indigenous peoples of this land on which the Norman Rockwell Museum was built. Despite tremendous hardship in being forced from here, today their community resides in Wisconsin and is known as the Stockbridge-Munsee Community. We pay honor and respect to their ancestors past and present as we commit to building a more inclusive and equitable space for all.

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