Re: African-American Animators

From: db (email suppressed)
Date: Wed Mar 28 2007 - 20:13:06 PDT


Rose is African American?

http://www.rosebond.net/

Her work is pretty wonderful. Two of her older films, "Nexus" and
"Gaia's Dream," samples at the above link, use music from Zimbabwe.

Check out some of these resources:
http://www.animationinsider.net/article.php?articleID=96
http://animatedfilms.suite101.com/article.cfm/floyd_norman_on_animation
http://aalbc.com/authors/comics.htm
http://www.spelman.edu/about_us/cosby/biographies.shtml (Ayoka Chinzera)
http://www.wmm.com/filmcatalog/makers/fm113.shtml
http://futef.com/search?query=cats%3A%5BAmerican%20animators%5D&begin=80
http://www.afrokids.com/about_us_main.html
http://www.granthill.com/ghc/promo.php
http://www.ibiblio.org/shscbch/downloads/Milestones_Spring06.pdf
http://library.dartmouth.edu/guides/sub.php?
page_id=4648&subject_id=1942&section_id=2
http://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI3056252/
http://memory.loc.gov/learn/collections/origins/thinking.html (not
by, but relevant, Bobby Bump Starts a Lodge)
http://jimhillmedia.com/blogs/floyd_norman/archive/2007/02/20/now-in-
full-color-a-cartoonish-take-on-black-history.aspx
http://blackcartoons.tripod.com/
http://northstar.as.uky.edu/volume6/v6n2news.html (The journal sheds
new light on movements such as the Harlem Renaissance, the role of
black musicians, and the careers of filmmakers, actors, sculptors,
photographers, animators, choreographers, vocalists, and painters.)
http://www.naahbcu.org/Assets/PDF/Newsletter1Spring2004.pdf
(TewodrossMelchishua)
http://www.bowiestate.edu/community/FacultyMelchishua.asp
http://www.soulsuite.com/VJMSoulsuite.html
http://www.soulsuite.com/Animation.html

db

On Mar 28, 2007, at 9:38 AM, Sam Wells wrote:

>> I am looking for animations by African-American makers. Could
>> you all,
>> with your vast reservoir of distributed knowledge, recommend some to
>> me?
>
>
> Rose Bond
>
> -Sam
>
>
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