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John Whitney Sr.

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John Whitney Sr.

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Born: April 8, 1917
Died: September 22, 1995
From: Pasadena, California, USA.

Also known as

John Whitney

Biography

John Whitney, Sr. (April 8, 1917—September 22, 1995) was an American animator, composer and inventor, widely considered to be one of the 'fathers' of computer animation.

Known for

Permutations

Five Film Exercises: Film 1

Five Film Exercises: Film 2-3

Five Film Exercises: Film 4

Celery Stalks at Midnight

Filmography

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2011

Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film

Acting (Himself (archive footage))

1997

Birth of a Nation

Acting (Self)

1993

Abstract Cinema

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1992

A Personal Search For the Complementarity of Music and Visual Art

1991

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1985

Home Movies 1971-81

1975

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1973

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1972

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Screening Room

Acting (Himself) 1 EP

1971

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1970

Osaka 1-2-3

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1968

Permutations

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Experiments in Motion Graphics

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1961

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1956

Blues Pattern

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1955

The Performing Painter

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1953

Mozart Rondo

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1952

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1951

Celery Stalks at Midnight

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1949

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1944

Five Film Exercises: Film 5

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Five Film Exercises: Film 4

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Five Film Exercises: Film 2-3

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1943

Five Film Exercises: Film 1

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1940

24 Variations on a Theme

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Undated

The Film Art of John Whitney, Sr.

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