This is the first of three postings relating to the ninth annual Society for Animation Studies conference, to be held in the Netherlands on October 8-12, 1997. This posting lists the papers to be presented; the second gives some background on the sponsoring instittutions; and the third includes a registration form. 9th SAS CONFERENCE PROGRAMME IN THE NETHERLANDS - subject to alteration - version: 27.8.1997 Wednesday, October 8 ------------------------------- 19.30 Opening 20.00 Key note Nadia Thalmann (Switzerland) Overview of the State of the Art in Human Figure Modeling Animation Thursday, October 9 ---------------------------- 9.30 Film programme Animation Films from the Netherlands panel ANIMATION HISTORY I: EUROPE 11.00 Mette Peters (the Netherlands) Dutch Shadow Show Becomes Silhouette Film (1930's) Robin Bates (USA) The First Animated Cartoon (1607) 13.30 Boris Pavlov (Russia) Animation in the Soviet Hollywood of the 1920-1930's Gunnar Strøm (Norway) Animated Commercials from the Late 1930's Made for Norwegian Companies panel ANIMATION AND HISTORY II: USA 15.30 Maureen Furniss (USA) Stars and Stripes: Animation in American Advertising Mark Langer (Canada) Disney, Nixon and Cold War Animation Kevin Sandler (USA) Greg Ford Friday, October 10 ------------------------- panel ANIMATION AND HISTORY III : EUROPE & USA 9.30 Film programme Paul Peroff, introduced by Jean Paul Goergen (Germany) William Moritz (USA) Absolute Film: The Next Generation 11.45 Workshop about animation by children for the Swedish Educational Broadcasting Company, presented by Erling Ericsson panel ANIMATION AND TECHNOLOGY 13.30 Richard Leskosky (USA) The Quest for Depth: Mechanics and Aesthetics of the American Animated Cartoon Nikolai Izvolov (Russia) The Idea of Artificial Sound in Russian Animation Dan McLaughlin (USA) It's About Time panel ANIMATION AND OTHER MEDIA I 16.15 Philippe Moins (Belgium) LE CINÉMA D'ANIMATION EN BELGIQUE, OU LA GENÈSE D'UNE RELATION SUIVIE ENTRE LE MONDE DE L'ÉDITION ET CELUI DU CINÉMA Natalia Venger (Russia) Russian Broadcasting: TV Cartoons á la Carte David Williams (England) Sons of the Drawing Board: Laurel and Hardy as Cartoon Characters Arnoud Rijken & Bas Brinkman (the Netherlands) Strangers in a Strange Land: on the Dramaturgy of Animation Saturday, October 11 ---------------------------- panel ANIMATION AND OTHER MEDIA II 9.30 Suzanne Buchan (Switzerland) Vision Animated to the Bursting Point: Stylistics of Metamorphosis in Text and Film Gunilla Muhr (Sweden) Modernist Traits in the Silly Symphonies Bernadette Kester (the Netherlands) Emancipating from Realism?: Historical Representation in Animation Film Edwin Carels (Belgium) 1895: Animation and the Metafilm panel ANIMATION AND PERCEPTION 13.30 Chandra Mukerji (USA) Animation and the Constitution of Childhood Masao Yokota (Japan) Face Preference of Animation Characters by Japanese University Students Anatoly Prokhorov (Russia) Space as a Screen, Perception as an Illusion, Culture as Sorcery panel ANIMATION IN DIFFERENT CULTURES 16.15 John Lent & Asli Tunc (USA) Animation in Turkey: Historical, Contemporary and Problem Analysis Edward Gamarra (USA) Animus, Anima, Anime: A Jungian Approach to Japanese Animation Sergiy Trymbach (the Ukraine) Ukrainian Animated Cartoon within the Boundaries of the National Cinematography Art Sunday, October 12 --------------------------- 10.00 Film programme Nederlands Filmmuseum, introduced by Paul Kusters (the Nether lands) panel ANIMATION HISTORY IV: USA 13.00 Sybil DelGaudio (USA) Animation and Anonymity: The Uncredited Work of John and Faith Hubley Pierre Floquet (France) Tex Avery's Comic Language: 10 Years of Creation at MGM, 1942-1951 Robin Allan (England) Europe through American Eyes at the Disney Coal Face: The Contribution of Bob Jones, Engineer and Puppeteer, to Pinocchio and Fantasia 16.00 Programme magic lantern showing (with material from 1840-1900) in the Christiaan Huygens Theater 18.00 Farewell Meeting Richard J. Leskosky office phone: (217) 244-2704 President FAX: (217) 244-2223 Society for Animation Studies 2117 Foreign Languages Building 707 S. Mathews Avenue Urbana, Illinois 61801 ---- 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]