Animated documentary
The animated documentary (also known as anidoc) is a
History
The first recognized example of this genre is Winsor McCay's 1918 12-minute-long film The Sinking of the Lusitania,[1] which uses animation to portray the 1915 sinking of RMS Lusitania after it was struck by two torpedoes launched by a German U-boat; an event of which no recorded film footage is known to exist.[2] Since the 1920s, animation has been used in
In 1953, Norman McLaren's Neighbours won the Academy Awards for Best Documentary (Short Subject). The award is somewhat considered a mistake, but the fact that it was not only indicated into that category, but also won, shows that, somehow, the animated images spoke to the judges almost like a documentary.
Mosaic Films promoted the use of animated documentaries in the United Kingdom in 2003 with the award-winning series Animated Minds. Commissioned by Channel 4 and directed by Andy Glynne, it uses real testimony from survivors of mental illness, combined with engaging visuals, to climb inside the minds of the mentally distressed. The first series won the award for Best Animation at the Banff World Media Festival (2004).[3]
The 2007
Fierlinger's 1995 animated feature-length
The Oscar-nominated 2008 Israeli film Waltz with Bashir[8] was advertised as being the first feature-length animated documentary.[9]
In 2011 the Colombian animated documentary "Little Voices" was released, at the same time it's the first Colombian 3D digital movie. On the same year Eva from Argentina produced by Illusion Studios debuts on Argentinian theatres.
Some animated documentaries that were nominated or won for Oscars are So Much for So Little (1949),[10] Sunrise Over Tiananmen Square (1998),[11] The Moon and the Son: An Imagined Conversation (2005), I Met the Walrus (2007), Last Day of Freedom (2015) and Flee (2021).[12]
References
- ^ 10 Great Animated Documentaries-Blog-Independent Lens-PBS
- ^ a b c d DelGaudio, Sybil. If Truth Be Told, Can Toons Tell It? Documentary and Animation. Film History 9:2 (1997) p. 189-199
- ^ "Brits dominate Banff Rockies". Broadcast. Retrieved 25 November 2012.
- ^ Animated documentaries|IDFA
- ^ a b Driessen, Kees. More than just talking mice Archived July 24, 2011, at the Wayback Machine. IDFA Magazine. 2007.
- ^ Robinson, Chris. Waking Life: The Truth is in the Animation Archived June 21, 2008, at the Wayback Machine. Montage Magazine. 2004.
- ^ Drawn From Memory DVD-Animation Show of Shows
- ^ The 10 Best Animated Documentaries from The Past 10 Years « Taste of Cinema
- ^ Ide, Wendy. Waltz With Bashir. Times Online. May 14, 2008.
- ^ The First Exact Academy Awards Tie: 1950 Oscars
- ^ "The 71st Academy Awards (1999) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved November 19, 2011.
- ^ "A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness" winning Best Documentary Short-Oscars on YouTube
Further reading
- Honess Roe, Annabelle (2013). Animated Documentary. Palgrave Macmillan UK. ISBN 978-1-349-43709-2.
External links
- AnimatedDocumentary.com - Articles, news & events
- Adams, Beige. "When Docs Get Graphic: Animation Meets Actuality". International Documentary Association (IDA).
- Articles about the animated documentary in the March 2005 issue of fps magazine
- DocumentaryAnimationDiscourse.com/ - Animated documentary theory and practice based research