THE MICHIGAN DAILY

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER

THE MICHIGAN DAILY SUNDAY. SEPTEMBER
EASTMAN SELECTED:


Ross Attends Student Seminar

the student's role is very im-
portant.
One experimental week of the
ISRS program was spent studying
methods, extent and means of
Communist penetration into stu-
dent organizations and the history
of American and Russian foreign
policy.
Extensive Study
The program's study was "ex-
tensive rather than intensive,"
though participants "did get a
fairly good depth analysis" of the
student scene on an international
basis.
Participants read approximately
800 to 1500 pages a week to com-
plement daily lectures delivered by
various professional and student
authorities.
In addition to participating in
the study program, ISRS repre-
sentatives attended the USNSA
Congress in Madison, Wis. where
the students acted as resource the "
people and also received speaking thmp"
privileges on the floor. compli
ISRS is run and staffed by the ation'
USNSA and serves as a training studer
ground for people who represent ity to
the USNSA overseas. cation
ISRS representatives studied tions.

ARTS AND LETTERS:
Hand-Drawings Evolve
A merican Cartooning

CorpSMCHEASTMAN SELECTED:
Professor To Compile
Set New
SNSeries for Airborne TV
Prof. Arthur M. Eastman of the
En T est I Fali.sh de artment . ou ha. e will supervise the program at the

ROBERT ROSS
... student seminars

politics and rivalries among
exities of the Algerian situ-
placing an accent on the
nt role. It was an opportun-
understand the varying edu-
ual traditions of other na-
Now!

By RISA AXELROD
Since their origin in the early'
1900's, animated cartoons have
usually been thought of as be-
longing to the world of fun-
loving, naive children.
But the production of these
hand-drawn features with their
numerous sequences belongs to
the world of the cartoonist, the
world of the adult.
The first cartoon to be produc-
ed was called "Drama Among the
Puppets" and consisted of white-
on-black drawings of matchstick
figures acting out a melodrama.
The characters: a fickle girl, her
policeman lover, another hero and
a villain.
This production of 1908 lasted
five minutes and proved very
jerky and one-dimensional. But
its creator, Emile Cohl, gave in-
spiration to a whole group of
people who then began to see the
potential of the hand-drawn car-
toon in an age when the motion
picture industry was expanding
from nickelodeon store - front
theatres in New York to large-
scale productions in Hollywood.
Cartooning Expands
Names like George Melies, Louis
and Auguste Lumiere, Stuart
Blackton and Winsor McCay be-
came connected with the growing
field of cartooning.
McCay, who had worked as a
cartoonist on the New York Her-
ald, produced a short film in 1909
called "Gertie the Dinosaur,"
The drawings were flat, the
animation crude, but McCay, who
had drawn the 10,000 sketches by
hand, was able to sell the idea
of animated cartoons to Eastern
film companies. These companies
distributed them to their regular
exhibitors free of charge as an
inducement to buy blocks of fea-
ture films in advance.
Weekly Runs
During the days of World War
I, the cartoons took their place
as weekly movie theatre enter-
tainment with characters such as

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Anyone who desires to serve in:
the Peace Corps will have another
opportunity to qualify by taking
examinations Oct. 7.
Testing for the Ann Arbor area
will take place in the Civil Ser-
vice Rm. of the downtown post
officestation. The examinations
will begin at 8:30 a.m. and will
last for six hours, with andaddi-
tional hour out for lunch.
Each person will be given a
choice between two types of exam-
inations.
The first is designed for men
and women who would like to be
considered for positions as secon-
dary-school or college teachers. A
bachelor's degree is required in
order to take this test, but one
need not be an accredited teacher.
The other exam is for everyone
else who wants to serve in the
Peace Corps. There is no rigid
passing grade for this test. The
results, will be considered along
with such other elements as back-
ground, special skills and charac-
ter ref erences.
Those.who desire to take the
tests and have not yet filled in a
questionnaire should see the per-
son in charge of the Civil Service
Commission testing center at the
post office October 7.

mglil upult11 , Mass een se-
lected to compile a series of 64 University Television Center stu-
TV programs for the Midwest dios. Prof. Joel L. Davis, also of
Program in Airborne Television. the English department, will be
course consultant.
He will take a year's leave of Beginning in January, schools
absence to work on an 11th grade in six midwestern states includ-
tourse in American Literature, inig University High School will
"From Franklin to Frost." The tune-in the TV course.
course will be telecast from a plane Airborne Television is produc-
flying 23,000 feet above Mont- ing courses for both high schools
pelier, Id., for use in midwestern and elementary schools. Ann Ar-
high schools. bor's Wines Elementary School
As production director, Eastman will also participate.

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GILBERT and SULLIVAN SOCIETY
MASS MEETING4

Felix the Cat, Boop and Popeye'
holding the spotlight.
Later generations did not lose
the opportunity to see these early
creations, as the films are often
shown on children's television pro-
grams.
In the twenties Max Fleischer
entered the scene with an imagin-
ative series of cartoons entitled
"Out of the Inkwell." Fleischer
combined his animations with live
action sequences, often by opening
a cartoon with a shot of himself
sitting by the drawing board.
Koko Emerges
He would be shown'accidentally
spilling a bottle of ink out of
which Koko the clown would ap-
pear. The two would then engage
in conversation and lively action.
The twenties also saw the birth
of America's most famous cartoon
character, Mickey Mouse. Intro-
duced by Walt Disney, Mickey
was to become'almost as symbolic
of Americaasthe red, white and
blue. And, when sound was added
to the cartoon in 1928, audiences
were able to hear, as well as see
their favorite cartoon character.
Disney Productions
Soon after, Disney started a
mass production process that en-
abled him to turn out more car-
toons, both single reels and fea-
ture length, than any other con-
tributer.
While European cartoonists
worked with material from their
fairy tales and national myths,
the Americans were influenced by
the music hall humor of the de-
cade preceeding the first world
war.
A German producer, Lotte
Reininger, used the old-fashioned
art of black-paper silhouette to
create several films. One of them,
titled "Adventures of Prince Ach-
met;" was produced in 1925 and
lasted 50 minutes.
Years of Work
A total of over 30,000 separate
cut-outs, a quarter of a million
separate photographs and three
years of work had gone into the
unusual film.
Prior to World War II, cartoon-
ist Len Lye worked on putting the
cartoon's abstract qualities to use.
European and Slavic countries
rely on their folk literature and
national poetry as inspirations for
cartoons, but in America the ani-
mated mouse, duck and pooch
[seem to have retained their popu-
larity as stars of the animated
cartoon.
MUSKET Sets
Meeting Tonight
Musket will hold its mass meet-
ing tonight at 7:30 in the Michi-
gan Union ballroom.
Preview numbers from this fall's
show will be presented. Students
will also have the opportunity to
sign up for the various commit-
tees which help produce the show.

ADULT EVENINGS
AND SUNDAY.....$1.25
ADULT WEEKDAY
MATINEES TILL
5:00 P.M..........90c
CHILDREN UNDER
12 YEARS ..........50c

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2:00 P.M. Sun., Sept. 24
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MEET!INGS
Every Thursday
Instruction for Beginners
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S.G.C. READING AND DISCUSSION SEMINARS:
Science and Culture: Sir C. P. Snow. Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution
Psychology of Religion: Sigmund Freud, The Future of An Illusion
Utopian Literature: George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four

Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

The MICHIGAN UNION Presents
INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR
Students from England, Hong Kong, Sweden, and Japan
give their views on the question
"Should Red China Be Admitted to the United Nations?"

E. E. Cummings, 100 Poems
Edmund Wilson, To The Finland Station

FIRST SEMINAR: 1984
Discussants, Stephen Tonsor, History Department
Arnold Kaufman, Philosophy Department


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