Category: animation

Found at “Mostly Lost”: volume 2 – new DVD

Oct 14, 2018

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Ben Model

in animation, DVD distribution, film festivals, Library of Congress, Undercrank Productions

My DVD label Undercrank Productions has a new release, the second in a series that showcases the identification fun we have every year at the “Mostly Lost” workshop at the Library of Congress at it’s Packard Preservation Campus in Culpeper, VA. Attendees each year receive a “swag bag” when they arrive and register on day…
Tony Sarg: Macy’s Parade Balloons and sillhouette silents

Nov 26, 2014

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Ben Model

in animation

Tony Sarg designed the first balloons for the Macy’s Thanksgiving parade. He also made a series of silhouette-animated cartoons in the 1920s. Here’s one. Transferred from a rare, home-use 16mm print from the 1930s.