Hannah Frank – författare

At publication date, a free ebook version of this title will be available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.In this beautifully written and deeply researched study, Hannah Frank provides an original way to understand American animated cartoons from the Golden Age of animation (1920–1960). In the pre-digital age of the twentieth century, the making of cartoons was mechanized and standardized: thousands of drawings were inked and painted onto individual transparent celluloid sheets (called “cels”) and then photographed in succession, a labor-intensive process that was divided across scores of artists and technicians. In order to see the art, labor, and technology of cel animation, Frank slows cartoons down to look frame by frame, finding hitherto unseen aspects of the animated image. What emerges is both a methodology and a highly original account of an art formed on the assembly line.

This story begins with Charlotte, an ordinary little girl, travelling on an ordinary train to London''s Baker Street.Although Charlotte''s travelled on a train a zillion times before, this train journey turns out to be a truly magical adventure. For on the way she meets the most extraordinary people who appear to have stepped right out from the pages of her most favouritefairy-tale books! But surely that cannot be possible? Afterall, Cinderella and her nasty step-sistersaresurely just make-believe. And Dorothy and the Wicked Witch of the West never really existed at all. Did they? Are the passengers on Charlotte''s magical train journey just ordinary people, like you and me, or could they really be the stuff of fairy-tales....?

Another enchantingstory from a collection of colour illustrated books by Hannah Frank. llustrated by Fred Falk (USA).