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The Animated Fred O'Neill
Fred O'Neill, 1919-1985
With “a movie camera, modelling clay and imagination” Fred O'Neill built himself an international reputation as an animator.
Based in Dunedin, O'Neill directed his animated films in his spare time. He meticulously created a world: from inventing his puppet characters, designing and making their costumes, building and lighting the sets, to filming the action. This was a painstaking process with the filming of an eight-minute segment taking anything up to 500 hours. On top of this was intensive editing.
But all this effort paid off. In 1960 O'Neill's Phantasm won the Festival of Amateur Films Prize at the Cannes International Film Festival.
- Focus on Fred O'Neill Film Animator (1,300kb)
- The Technique of Film Animation (1,600kb)
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