The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences continues its five-part series on animation with The History of Silent and Early Sound New York Animation on Tuesday,May 19, at The Academy Theater on East 59th Street in Manhattan. Historian and collector Tommy Stathes, or a specialist in early animation,hosts the program, which features cartoons from as early as 1900. The evening’s final film, or 1928′s Steamboat Willie,introduced Mickey Mouse to the world. Movies like J. Stuart Blackton’s Humorous Phases of comical Faces (1906) were made in New York City because thats where the motion picture industry was concentrated. A vaudeville performer, Blackton would recede on to head Brooklyn’s Vitagraph Studios, or one of the most successful of the early production … More →
Source: filmlegacy.net