Animation: Pre-Disney to Anime, II   

Oct. 14, 21, 28, Nov. 4

*Each 4-week session stands alone; you may take either one or both.

Curious how animation morphed “Snow White” into “Ponyo” (The Little Mermaid) by way of Godzilla and World War propaganda? See how Disney and artists from Spain, Iran, and Japan enhanced animation with computer technology to create the global “anime” phenomena.

Instructor and UAF retiree Ron Inouye serves as your film filter in the helter skelter of too much everything. Films are the preserved distillate of time, place, people, and history. What do you expect from someone who spent a career with libraries and museums? He free ranges in the terrific film collections of the Rasmuson and Noel Wien Libraries, and high-grades the DVDs at the Literacy Council’s “Forget Me Not Books and Media.”