While trolling through the choppy waters of Boing Boing this morning I came across a link to a blog post about the John Sutherland animated film Rhapsody of Steel. The image caught my eye because I remembered seeing it before. Where? I can’t remember. It’s likely that I watched the film while I worked in the Peabody Awards Archive, since odd ephemera like that was laying around everywhere. Whatever the origins for me personally, it was still amazing to read the blog post and be reminded of how amazing this film was. It was Rhapsody of Steel that first got me interested in the work of Maurice Noble and Eyvind Earle, two amazing animators, that pretty much started my fascination with the beauty of cartoons. You can still find quality artistry like theirs today, though it’s rare (see the work of Craig McCracken, Gendy Tartakovsky, and Stephen Hillenburg). There are more Sutherland films available on Archives.org, which is, if you haven’t been using it, an amazing resource, plus Rick Praelinger is a nice guy.
{ 2008 01 31 }
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