{"id":7874,"date":"2010-10-17T01:23:59","date_gmt":"2010-10-17T08:23:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/?p=7874"},"modified":"2010-10-18T09:34:15","modified_gmt":"2010-10-18T16:34:15","slug":"international-animation-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/?p=7874","title":{"rendered":"International Animation Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_7875\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7875\" style=\"width: 202px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Reynaud-Pantomimes.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7875\" title=\"Reynaud-Pantomimes\" src=\"http:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Reynaud-Pantomimes.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"202\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7875\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Original poster for Emile Reynaud&#39;s Pantomimes Lumineuses<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Celebrate International Animation Day with Asifa-Israel and the Goethe Institute! In homage to the \u201cInternational Tourn\u00e9e of Animation\u201d and Prescot Wright, a program of select works from leading international animators will be presented at the Goethe Institute on Tuesday, October 19 from 19:00 to 21:00. The event is free and open to the public. The program will include films by Richard Williams, Y\u014dji Kuri, Raoul Servay, Bob Godfrey, John Whitney and more\u2026<\/p>\n<p>In the mid-60s Wikipedia reports that \u201cit was almost impossible to see quality animation in the US\u201d \u2013 members of ASIFA-Hollywood put together an animation program and when Prescott Wright joined the American Film Institute in 1969, he was asked to head the project. Under Wright\u2019s direction it became known as the \u201cInternational Tourn\u00e9e of Animation\u201d \u2013 an annual touring program of short animated films from different countries that existed from about 1970 to the late 1980s.<\/p>\n<p>ASIFA \u2013 the International Animated Film Association, proclaimed October 28th as \u201cInternational Animation Day\u201d to commemorate the first public performance of Emile Reynaud\u2019s Th\u00e9\u00e2tre Optique at the Mus\u00e9e Gr\u00e9vin in Paris in 1892. Pre-dating the work of the Lumi\u00e8re Brothers (1895), Reynaud, a French inventor, created the Praxinoscope \u2013 an improved version of the Zoetrope, replacing the viewing slits with an inner circle of 12 mirrors, enabling several people to view the film at once and enhancing the image. Many versions later, in 1988, he had developed a larger projection version that not only allowed the images to be viewed against a background, but also enabled a continuous series of moving images, rather than the previous version\u2019s 12 image limit.<\/p>\n<p>Goethe Institute, Beit Asia, 4 Weizman Street, Tel Aviv<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Celebrate International Animation Day with Asifa-Israel and the Goethe Institute! In homage to the \u201cInternational Tourn\u00e9e of Animation\u201d and Prescot Wright, a program of select works from leading international animators will be presented at the Goethe Institute on Tuesday, October 19 from 19:00 to 21:00. The event is free and open to the public. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","category-free"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7874\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.midnighteast.com\/mag\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}