Cartoon Modern: Style and Design in Fifties Animation Amid Amidi
Publisher: Chronicle Books LLC

British Broadcasting Corporation. Published London : BBC Books 1987. Cartoon modern: style and design in fifties animation. This includes modern noir set during the Fifties like L.A. Of DVDs (including the new edition of Lupin III: Castle of Cagliostro and the tragic, semi-autobiographical Barefoot Gen), and books (including Amid Amidi's acclaimed Cartoon Modern: Style and Design in Fifties Animation). Published San Francisco : Chronicle Books 2006. The book is designed and written by historian Amid Amidi, whose recent Cartoon Modern: Style and Design in Fifties Animation won the Theatre Library Association Award for best film book of 2006. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2006. He is the youngest recipient of the prestigious Theatre Library Association Award which he received for his book Cartoon Modern: Style and Design in Fifties Animation (2006, Chronicle Books). According to Cartoon Modern: Style and Design in Fifties Animation By Amid Amidi, “To best appreciate 1950's animation design, one needs to first examine the state of the industry in the decades leading up to the 1950's” 1. Animation Resources Animation Welcome To Animation Resources Animation A 501(c)(3) California non-profit corporation dedicated to serving the worldwide online animation community. Retro Rockets: The design theme for the whole decade, fins and all. [4] Amid Amidi, Cartoon Modern: Style and Design in 1950s Animation. An index page listing The Fifties content. Joined by contemporary animator Mark Kausler (Beauty and The Beast, The Lion King), Lou Romano (production designer of Pixars, The Incredibles) and author/historian Amid Amidi (Cartoon Modern: Style and Design in Fifties Animation). Writer Amid Amidi calls the animated versions of this style "cartoon modern" in his beautiful book, Cartoon Modern: Style and Design in Fifties Animation. Amsterdam: International General, 1984. Cartoon Modern: Style and Design in Fifties Animation has in the few years since its publication become a bible of an epoch in cartoon (and winner of the Theater Library Association Award). Confidential or The Black Dahlia.