Monday, August 12, 2019

1970-1979 Games and Animation

Animation
France
Serge Danot
The Magic Roundabout (1963 - 1970)
500 episode, I have heard of this show before. It has one of the most annoying theme tunes of all time.
Dougal and the Blue Cat (1970)

UK
Bob Godfey
Kama Sutra Rides Again (1971)
Made in the craze for adult Animation. Rated X and screened next to Stanley Kubricks 'A Clockwork Orange'. There seems to be a lot of Public Sex in this one. Also the guy in this has one eye that is quite delayed.

Jeff Keen
The Cartoon Theatre of Dr Gaz (1977)
His film is a remix of monster movies, Home videos and Sci-fi.

Martin Rosen
Watership Down (1979)
I have watched this film. The Original, A very Dark and violent animation. Like Animal Farm, this film ain't for kids.

Rodger Mainwood
Autobahn (1979)
Music by Craftwerk,

France / Czech Republic
Rene Laloux
The Fantastic Planet (1973)
Based on the novel Oms en Serie by Stefan Wul. The film eludes to social concern of fascist repression and war as well as alternative culture and Eastern Mysticism.

France / Poland
Piotr Kamler
Le Pas (The Step) (1974)
Experimental abstract film. Very Green monochromatic. Also very repetitive.

Japan
Renzo & Sayoko Kinoshita
Made in Japan (1972)
An animated depiction of the bombing of Hiroshima. Very Disturbing. I think this is actually quite accurate. How quickly everything goes from being peaceful to absolutely destroyed in seconds.

Hayao Miyazaki & Isao Takahata
Heidi (1974)
TV series adaption of the children's book of the same name. The men went to form studio Ghibli, a very successful animation company that made films such as Spirited away and Howl's Moving Castle.
I Have seen Howl's Moving castle and it quite an amazing film. Especially in its art-style.

Norway
Ivo Caprino 
The Pinchcliffe Grand Prix (1975)
Perfected a technique of manipulation characters in real time (an early version animations). Very Smooth Frame rate, and very detail.

Hungary
William Feigenbaum & Jozsef Gemes
Hugo The Hippo (1975)
Very cute animation.

USA
Lillian F. Schwartz (Bell Labratories) (1969-2002)
Newtonian I and II (1978)
Abstract is the word id use to describe this film. Looks like it would give you epilepsy.

Belgium
Eddie Lateste & Peyo
Les Schtroumpfs (The Smurfs) (1958)
B&W Smurf shorts (1960)
The Smurfs and the Magic Flute (1976)
Hanna-Barbera
The Smurfs TV Show (1981)

Italy
Bruno Bozzetto
Allegro non Troppo (1976)
A mix of Mythology and science fiction themes

Austrailia and Poland
Yoram Gross
Dot and the Kangaroo (1977)
Used the tecnique of layering animation over photographic background.

Croatia
Zdenko Gasparovic 
A Dog's Life (1966)
Professor Balthazar (1966)
Saitemania (1978)
The Footage that we were shown in class depicts use of water colours.

Games
Nolan Bushnell and Al Alcorn
Arcade Pong (1972)
Home Version Pong (1975)

David Ahl
101 BASIC Computer Games (1973)

Steve Colley, Greg Thompson and others
Maze Wars (1974)

William Crowther 
Adventure (1975)

Don Woods
Adventure (1976)
I have Played Zork on the game Call of Duty Black Ops 1. It was a small Easter Egg in the games main menu and it was quite fun.

Exidy
Death Rate Based (1976)
based on the film Death Race 2000 (1975)
A top down racing game where players run down gremlins.

Atari
The Atari 2600 (1977)
A proper console that came with a joystick, interchangeable cartridges, game sin colour, and switches for selecting games and setting difficulty levels. I Have seen one of these consoles in person.

Taito
Space Invaders (1978)
One of my favorite arcade video games of all time. I can make it to the 2nd level of this game, which is harder than it sounds. The game mechanic was a glitch which is amazing. I never knew that.

Mattel
Intellivision (1979)
The Sports games were popular on this game.



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