You could also check the Society fro Animation Studies Experts Directory at <http://gertie.animationstudies.org/index.php?option=sasdir&Itemid=183> for animation scholars specializing in this area or time period. Richard Leskosky ---- Original message ---- >Date: Sun, 7 Aug 2011 11:11:35 -0400 >From: [log in to unmask] >Subject: Re: [SCREEN-L] historical "firsts" concerning preschool children's cartoons >To: [log in to unmask] > >You might try contacting the people at Cartoon Brew (http://www.cartoonbrew.com/) who may be able to put you in touch with animation historians (if there aren't any already on Screen-L). > > >LT > > >-----Original Message----- >>From: Doc Britto <[log in to unmask]> >>Sent: Aug 6, 2011 5:39 PM >>To: [log in to unmask] >>Subject: [SCREEN-L] historical "firsts" concerning preschool children's cartoons >> >>Hello, >> >>I am trying to find some historical "firsts" concerning young/preschool >>children's cartoons (TV and film), both one-time or series, for the US. >>I"m defining preschool rather losely as younger than 7. >> >>Here is my difficulty so far: books usually employ simply the word >>"children" as in "children's program," children's film, etc., but only >>in recent decades has the division between older kids and preschoolers >>been emphasized. Before the late 60s (in particular with Sesame Street), >>I have not found a specific reference to a preschool cartoon, a >>preschool animation movie for theater release, or a preschool TV cartoon >>series in the US. >> >>What is considered to be the first preschool children's television >>cartoon series on (American) television? >> >>I am specifically looking for a series that was conceived for children >>under 7, so not an unspecified children's program that is geared to >>include all children (both preschool and elementary school children). >> >>The same for an animated movie in theaters-- is there anything in >>American film history that is equivalent to the German "Moonbeam Bear >>and His Friends," for example? This movie is aimed at younger children >>(losely defined). >> >>I am also interested in finding any hand-drawn cartoons (even if not >>series) or other animation techniques (like marionettes ) before the >>late 1960s that were conceived primarily for a preschool audience, or >>any articles on the subject. >> >>Thank you for any references or tips. >> >>Regards, >>V. Britto >> >>---- >>Learn to speak like a film/TV professor! Listen to the ScreenLex >>podcast: >>http://www.screenlex.org > >---- >To sign off Screen-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF Screen-L >in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask] ================================= Richard J. Leskosky Associate Professor Emeritus Department of Media and Cinema Studies University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 810 S. Wright Street Urbana, Illinois 61801 ---- Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the University of Alabama: http://www.tcf.ua.edu