(
Follow-upFilter) It's rare that jazz videos venture beyond filming live performances. This makes the exceptions all the more notable.
Animation seems the medium of choice: from George Griffin's 1988 paper collage for Charlie Parker's "
Ko Ko" to Len Lye's swinging
The Lambeth Walk (1939), or (stretching musical definitions just a bit) his 1958 masterpiece "
Free Radicals". More recent jazz seems to fit just as well: witness Lung's psychotic piece for Ladyscraper's "
Thou Art Fucking Dead".
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posted by progosk
on Jul 14, 2008 -
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Robert "Bobe" Cannon's 1951 Oscar-winning animated short
"Gerald McBoing Boing" (u2b), is an early example of a modernist animation style
(previously) experimented by UPA studios in an attempt to counteract the mounting realism of Disney cartoons. (The 2005
series it inspired is currently re-running on
Boomerang.)
On another note entirely, Theodor "Seuss" Geisel's character Gerald is considered one of a number of
celebrities with autism.
posted by progosk
on Feb 24, 2007 -
43 comments