Tuesday, November 08, 2005
Mark Kausler was at my Cal State Fullerton class Monday night. I will be writing about it later this week. Until then here are some photos.
LATER: I finally got some sleep last night. My Monday / Tuesday schedule has been a little wearing this semester, class till 10 PM Monday night and then 8 AM class Tuesday morning. This week was real hard because I had Mark Kausler in to Cal State Fullerton. But it was worth it.
Mark brought out his 16 mm projector and showed rare animations and almost animations (NBC TeleComics - Radio play with still pictures). There were two real highlights to the show for me.
The first dealt with the TeleComics. I picked up a couple of original pieces of production artwork from ASIFA just because they where such great pieces of art. Mark identified the artist in passing, Dik Moores of Gasoline Alley fame. I love Dik`s run on Gasoline Alley and didn`t even know I had two of his originals in my collection.
The second big surprise for me was a Krazy Kat that I had not seen in 40 years and I didn`t even know that I had not seen it. That is what I love about cartoons. All of the sudden I was a kid again setting in my parents front room in Florida looking at this big monster RCA cabinet model TV / Record Player with the 12 inch screen and the record player that had not worked for years and years. There were ugly nick knack shelves on the wall with seashells we fownd on the beach. I was half way through a box of Cheerios. And the devil (a very strong part of my childhood church going mythology) was talking Krazy Kat into stealing a melody from a classical composer. I want a copy of that cartoon. I want to see it again. Man I love that cartoon and all these years I didn`t even know what was missing.
Okay let us change subjects, here is Ken Kinoshita (one of my students, a former Disney artist, current Illustration student and a long time friend of Mark) with Mark Kausler.
Mark and I talking about the play list of cartoons for the night.
Mark in his element, behind a projector
We started with Crusader Rabbit The Alex Anderson/Jay Ward rabbit is not an easy cartoon to see as most copies are buried in the Fox Vault.
Followed by NBC TeleComics (ASIFA-Hollywood had all of the artwork for this cartoon thingy) Then Mark showed a reel of cartoons from his childhood. Cartoons that he loves, cartoons that shaped him and made him into an animator.
We ended the night with an interview, Mark showed artwork from his short animation It`s the Cat (I love this cartoon it has all the things that I love about cartoons from the 30s). We then showed this great animation to my class. Did some questions from the audience and had a small reception. All in all a very good night. Thank you Mark.
Photos by: Bonnie Robinson
LATER: I finally got some sleep last night. My Monday / Tuesday schedule has been a little wearing this semester, class till 10 PM Monday night and then 8 AM class Tuesday morning. This week was real hard because I had Mark Kausler in to Cal State Fullerton. But it was worth it.
Mark brought out his 16 mm projector and showed rare animations and almost animations (NBC TeleComics - Radio play with still pictures). There were two real highlights to the show for me.
The first dealt with the TeleComics. I picked up a couple of original pieces of production artwork from ASIFA just because they where such great pieces of art. Mark identified the artist in passing, Dik Moores of Gasoline Alley fame. I love Dik`s run on Gasoline Alley and didn`t even know I had two of his originals in my collection.
The second big surprise for me was a Krazy Kat that I had not seen in 40 years and I didn`t even know that I had not seen it. That is what I love about cartoons. All of the sudden I was a kid again setting in my parents front room in Florida looking at this big monster RCA cabinet model TV / Record Player with the 12 inch screen and the record player that had not worked for years and years. There were ugly nick knack shelves on the wall with seashells we fownd on the beach. I was half way through a box of Cheerios. And the devil (a very strong part of my childhood church going mythology) was talking Krazy Kat into stealing a melody from a classical composer. I want a copy of that cartoon. I want to see it again. Man I love that cartoon and all these years I didn`t even know what was missing.
Okay let us change subjects, here is Ken Kinoshita (one of my students, a former Disney artist, current Illustration student and a long time friend of Mark) with Mark Kausler.
Mark and I talking about the play list of cartoons for the night.
Mark in his element, behind a projector
We started with Crusader Rabbit The Alex Anderson/Jay Ward rabbit is not an easy cartoon to see as most copies are buried in the Fox Vault.
Followed by NBC TeleComics (ASIFA-Hollywood had all of the artwork for this cartoon thingy) Then Mark showed a reel of cartoons from his childhood. Cartoons that he loves, cartoons that shaped him and made him into an animator.
We ended the night with an interview, Mark showed artwork from his short animation It`s the Cat (I love this cartoon it has all the things that I love about cartoons from the 30s). We then showed this great animation to my class. Did some questions from the audience and had a small reception. All in all a very good night. Thank you Mark.
Photos by: Bonnie Robinson
