Robert Clampett Retrospective In Ottawa

[Gordan]

Ottawa International Animation Festival (2006) will feature a Robert Clampett retrospective. The show is programmed by Mark Langer.

This is fantastic. The programme will likely feature Warner Bros' 35mm prints of Clampett's classics. Can't wait. This is something not to be missed. For more info, go here:

http://ottawa.awn.com/index.php?option=com_oiaf&task=showevent&i=26&Itemid=397[/url]

:daffy: :sowhite: :dodo:

The festival will also feature a Bruno Bozzetto retrospective:

http://ottawa.awn.com/index.php?option=com_oiaf&task=showevent&i=12&Itemid=399

http://ottawa.awn.com/index.php?option=com_oiaf&task=showevent&i=40&Itemid=398[url="http://ottawa.awn.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=57&Itemid=36"] (http://ottawa.awn.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=83&Itemid=36)

How fantastic is that? I am not a huge fan of Ottawa, but this festival makes me so happy and proud to live here.

[MF TOON]

Thanks Gordan!


Is this part of the '06 Festival program in September, or a seperate screening that will take place before hand sponsored/presented by the OIAF?


Eitherway, I'll probably make the drive down!


It'll give me a good excuse to visit my aunt and cousins who I haven't seen in a while, also.

[Gordan]

Hey there, fellow Canadian.

It's a part of the regular OIAF program (September, 06). How cool, eh?

[Larry T]

I wonder how easy it will be for me in September to make a little trip up there.... :cool:

Keep me posted with the details, OK guys?

[Gordan]

I know most GAC-ers are familiar with the OIAF 04 festival and its schedule, but here is just a quick reminder with all the details for the Bob Clampett retrospective. I am glad Mark has finally decided to include Coal Black (partly my fault:D ) in the show (albeit a 16 mm print).
Most of the cartoons will be projected from wonderful 35 mm films. Interestingly enough, even though the official OIAF site has displayed a still from PORKY IN WACKYLAND for months now, this cartoon is not included in the programme. Too bad as I would have loved to see this film on a big screen.

Anyway, details about this magnificent show (from http://ottawa.awn.com (http://ottawa.awn.com/)):


Bob Clampett Retrospective
Friday, September 22, 10:00 am (http://ottawa.awn.com/?option=com_oiaf&task=showschedule&i=2006/09/22#26)(Bytowne Cinema) (http://ottawa.awn.com/?option=com_oiaf&task=showvenues#14)
Saturday, September 23, 7:00 pm (http://ottawa.awn.com/?option=com_oiaf&task=showschedule&i=2006/09/23#62)(NAC Southam Hall) (http://ottawa.awn.com/?option=com_oiaf&task=showvenues#3)
- Southam Hall)

“Bob Clampett’s films have been a seminal influence on such contemporary animators as John Kricfalusi, but Clampett’s work is inimitable. His visual style has been described by critic Greg Ford as one of “`sproinging’ rubbery character-motion that gave some of the most eminently stretchable/bendable characters in cartoon history.” This, combined with his zany humour, resulted in animated films that undoubtedly were among the wildest and most imaginative produced during the classic Warner Bros. animation period. http://ottawa.awn.com/images/stories/clampett.jpg
Other Warner Bros. animators, like Chuck Jones, expressed a modernist sensibility with their focus on design. Clampett had a heightened media consciousness, a fondness for pastiche and parody, and a preoccupation with recombining cultural conventions to produce new and ironic meanings, making him perhaps one of the first postmodernists in American cinema. Both a critic and celebrant of animation conventions, Clampett was to later become a key player in the new medium of broadcasting through his Time for Beany puppet TV show and later Beany and Cecil animation series.

Clampett entered the animation industry in 1931 when Leon Schlesinger, supplier of animated films to Warner Bros, hired him straight out of high school. In commemorating the 75th anniversary of the beginning of Clampett’s career, the Ottawa International Animation Festival presents a retrospective celebrating the best of Bob Clampett’s work at Warner Bros. with a special presentation of beautiful 35mm prints.”

- Mark Langer, Ottawa 2006 Honorary President

Programme:
Daffy Doc [1938] Bob Clampett / Warner Bros. / 16mm
Wabbit Twouble [1941] Bob Clampett / Warner Bros. / 35mm
Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs [1943] Bob Clampett / Warner Bros. / 16mm
Tortoise Wins by a Hare [1943] Bob Clampett / Warner Bros. / 35mm
A Corny Concerto [1943] Bob Clampett / Warner Bros. / 35mm
A Gruesome Twosome [1945] Bob Clampett / Warner Bros. / 35mm
Book Revue [1946] Bob Clampett / Warner Bros. / 35mm
Baby Bottleneck [1946] Bob Clampett / Warner Bros. / 35mm
Kitty Kornered [1946] Bob Clampett / Warner Bros. / 35mm
The Great Piggy Bank Robbery [1946] Bob Clampett / Warner Bros. / 35mm

[Martin Juneau]

Hey, thanks for the info and for the cartoons listings. That's sound very happy!!! ;)