Table of Contents

Notes on the Origins of New Art; On the Changing History of Experimental Animation; The Widening Circles; The New Technologies; Implications for the Future Pioneers of Abstract Animation in Europe; A Note on the Origins of Animation - Lopold Survage, Walter Ruttmann, Viking Eggeling, Hans Richter, Oskar Fischinger, Len Lye; Pioneers of Pictorial Animation in Europe - Lotte Reiniger, Berthold Bartosch, Alexander Alexeieff and Claire Parker; Pioneers of Abstract Animation in America - Mary Ellen Bute, Douglass Crockwell, Dwinell Grant, Francis Lee; Norman McLaren and the National Film Board of Canada - Norman McLaren; Contemporary Imagists - Robert Breer, Harry Smith, Carmen DAvino, Jerome Hill, Tony Conrad, Larry Jordan, Paul Sharits; Experimenters in Animated Sound - Norman McLaren, John Whitney/James Whitney, Barry Spinello Animation and New Technology, John Whitney, Ken Knowlton/Lillian Schwartz, Stan VanDerBeek, Peter Foldes, Ed Emshwiller