first meeting? (Also Emily Hubley)

The first tentative meeting for AA may be on April 9 (two weeks after spring break) depending on how lazy the leaders of this RSO feel (which, I might add, can get pretty lazy at times. I mean, seriously, we do homework on Friday nights! Buncha slackers if you ask me)

To anyone first visiting this blog and you want to know what we're all about, please read http://fivecollegefilm.blogspot.com/2009/02/its-coming.html

To anyone who wants to sign that RSO page- I already have more than the requisite 10 students, but if you absolutely feel like you want to sign, I won't stop you. I actually think it'd be pretty darn funny if we flooded the RSO office with names.

This isn't an official RSO yet but that doesn't mean that we can't start doing stuff! For the first meeting we'll probably screen The Triplets of Bellville for the main feature and perhaps some Looney Tunes as the opener.

If you have anything you'd like screened, please send me an email (not the file!) to jgchan [at] student.umass.edu or to Audrey ( acondon [at] student.umass.edu) and we can talk about




Also, animator Emily Hubley is rolling through town next week. According to Chris Perry (Hampshire's animation professor) She'll be speaking at Hampshire College's Franklin Patterson Hall (the main lecture hall- let me know if you need directions around campus) next Wednesday at 7:00 PM. If you're not familiar with the name "Hubley" you should be, as John Hubley was a huge infuence on animation as we know today as a director at UPA back in the Golden Age



(Yeah, I know, Hubley doesn't appear in the credits for this, but this one showcases the UPA style)


Prior to UPA, most cartoon studios were copying Disney in terms of the visuals and the character design (and everyone was ripping off the Terrytoons character designs).

I'm not too familiar with Emily's work, but I have no doubt that she'll have loads of insight into the industry and other royal nonsuch, so it'd be worth it to see her