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| THE EVENT OF 5th MAY 2011 |
| HALAS AND BATCHELOR SPECIAL |
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| Tom, Vivien and Captain Zip, with Tim Hope and Andy Riley in the background. |
| PART ONE: HALAS & BATCHELOR SCREENING |
We were delighted to welcome Vivien Halas, the daughter of John Halas and Joy Batchelor to introduce a programme of her parents' films, which formed the first programme of the evening. You can see her introduction in this ten-minute video clip, which I shot on an iPhone: |
From there we proceeded to a sceening of four Halas & Batchelor animated films, which you can see below: |
| 1. "The Owl And The Pussycat" (1952, 7 minutes) |
Direction: John Halas, Brain Borthwick
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| 2. "The Figurehead" (1953) |
| Direction: John Halas, Joy Batchelor |
| Watch the film by clicking on the link here |
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| 3. "Foo Foo The Stowaway" (1960, 6 minutes) |
| Direction: Harold Whitaker, John Smith, Tony Guy, Terry Harrison |
| Watch the film here |
| 4. "Butterfly Ball" (1976, 3 minutes 30 seconds) |
Direction: Lee Misken |
We then had a surprise addition to the Halas & Batchelor programme. Vivien had brought along a brand new transfer of "The Question", which Stan Hayward, who wrote the film, introduced. Stan explained that back in the 1960s, animation studios had something we don't have anymore: free time and it was through this that the film came to be made. Apparently the film lost out on a BAFTA to Bob Godfrey's film "Karma Sutra Rides Again." |
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| Stan Hayward |
| 5. "The Question" (1967, 8 minutes) |
| Direction: John Halas Producer: John Halas Script: Stan Hayward Design: John Dick Music: Jack King Animation: Tony Guy, Tony Whitehouse |
Sadly "The Question" is not available online, but you can find out more about other Halas & Batchelor films at Vivien's website at http://www.halasandbatchelor.co.uk A selection of films, including "Animal Farm", is available on DVDs at: http://www.halasandbatchelor.co.uk/dvds.asp. |
| PART TWO: MEMBERS' SCREENING |
After the break we returns with an informal programme of films which attendees brought along on the night. These included: |
| 1. "Sunday" by Zsuzsa Kohan (2011, 1 minute 40 seconds) |
| You can see more of Zsuzsa's amazing work by clicking here. |
| 2. " Gristle" (2011) by Jamie Clennett |
Both Zsusza and Jamie introduced their fantastic work and Jamie suggested we join forces with the Scottish Animation Network. |
| PICKLETS |
We were also approached by Australian animator Stewart Haines, who was only in London for about ten days about a new app for the iPhone which he has designed called a picklet. Stewart tells us: |
"I'm a Melbourne-based software developer slash interactive media designer. |
I'm in the UK for one week only to meet authors and artists interested in interactive content for iPhone/iPad and to demonstrate the production workflow for creating picklets. |
The picklet project has a home on the web at; |
http://picklet.net/about/ |
A picklet is a kind of digital popup book. Picklet authors don't need any programming skills, or any particular technical ability beyond some familiarity with Photoshop. |
If you're interested, or know of some group who might be interested in a demo of the project please let me know. I'll be in London until the 14th of May. |
cheers, Stewart." |
(Stewart Haines stewarthaines@gmail.com) |
Thank you so much to everyone who took part and made it such a great evening. |
- Martin |