Experimental and Early Animation: Artist-as-Inventor
Zoetrope Invented in 1834 by William Horner. Called the “Daedalum” ('the wheel of the devil) and also the Praxinoscope. Popular in the U.S. from the 1860s Generally seen in amusement park arcades
Conventional Film c D.W. Griffith: Birth of a Nation (1915) – Charlie Chaplin: Modern Times (1936) –
Experimental Film Sergei Eisenstein: Battleship Potemkin (1925) – Dziga Vertov: The Man with the Movie Camera (1929) –
Avant Garde Film 1920s Marcel Duchamp: Anemic Cinema (1926) – Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali: Un Chien Andalou (1929)
Experimental Animation Hans Richter: Rhythmus 21 (1921) – Filmstudie (1926) – 8x8: A Chess Sonata (1957) –
Experimental Film and Animation Len Lye A Color Box (1935) – –An advertisement for cheaper parcel post! Free Radicals (1958) –
Experimental Meets Mainstream Max & Dave Fleischer – Minnie the Moocher (1932) –