art animation?

[Mark Nornes]

I love Google Book, so I couldn't resist checking out this term there. The first mentions of the term "art animation" start in 1948, although an educational film company used it during WWII. There are very, very few mentions after that. More after 1970, but still not like Japan. Moreover, it seems to migrate from the educational film world to industrial, high-end animation like Disney in the last few decades. So perhaps the Japanese animators got it from Europe. 

Markus


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On May 19, 2010, at 2:53 AM, fujioka asako wrote:

> I'm curious about the use of the term "art animation"... 
> Is it used by English speakers? 
> In Japanese, it refers to a category of hand-drawn/puppet/clay/traditional
> animation differentiated from the more commercial and mainstream
> entertainment anime. 
> It sounds like Japanese conveniently borrowing and combining English words
> (wasei-eigo) to mean something. 
> Thanks for any advise. 
> Fujioka Asako  
> 

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