- Summary
- "This study explores Adolf Hitler and Joseph Goebbels' efforts to establish a German cartoon industry to rival Walt Disney's and their love-hate relationship with American producers, whose films they studied behind locked doors"--Provided by publisher.
- Format
- Manuscript language material
- Author/Creator
- Giesen, Rolf.
- Published
- Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., [2012]
- Locale
- Germany
- Contents
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Optical lyric and shadow plays: the early history of German animation
The march of the cigarettes
Tilo Voss and the development of German sound cartoons
How Walt Disney became Walter Distler: Snow White for greater Germany
Global power for German trickfilm
Puppet films: Starevich, Mecki the hedgehog, the Diehl brothers and Jürgen Clausen, the German "pal"
An animation pioneer with a non-Aryan background: Wolfgang Kaskeline
The phenomenology and psychology of cartoons
Hans Held, troublemaker
Kurt Stordel and Purzel: a self-proclaimed German Walt Disney and his dwarf
Towards a German Disney empire
The futile dream of a German cartoon factory: rise and fall of Deutsche Zeichenfilm G.m.b.H.
Snow man and weather-beaten melody: Hans Fischerkoesen and Horst Von Möllendorff
A surprising underwater cartoon from Prague: wedding at coral sea
Deutsche Wochenshau and the "collaborators" of the Europäischer Zeichenfilm ring
Bavaria, Munchausen and the town musicians of Bremen
Animated maps to hail German victories: Svend Noldan
Classified animation: training the military
The aftermath: the postwar era of German animation
The filmmakers: biographies
Select filmography.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Storm, J.P.
- Notes
-
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Optical lyric and shadow plays: the early history of German animation -- The march of the cigarettes -- Tilo Voss and the development of German sound cartoons -- How Walt Disney became Walter Distler: Snow White for greater Germany -- Global power for German trickfilm -- Puppet films: Starevich, Mecki the hedgehog, the Diehl brothers and Jürgen Clausen, the German "pal" -- An animation pioneer with a non-Aryan background: Wolfgang Kaskeline -- The phenomenology and psychology of cartoons -- Hans Held, troublemaker -- Kurt Stordel and Purzel: a self-proclaimed German Walt Disney and his dwarf -- Towards a German Disney empire -- The futile dream of a German cartoon factory: rise and fall of Deutsche Zeichenfilm G.m.b.H. -- Snow man and weather-beaten melody: Hans Fischerkoesen and Horst Von Möllendorff -- A surprising underwater cartoon from Prague: wedding at coral sea -- Deutsche Wochenshau and the "collaborators" of the Europäischer Zeichenfilm ring -- Bavaria, Munchausen and the town musicians of Bremen -- Animated maps to hail German victories: Svend Noldan -- Classified animation: training the military -- The aftermath: the postwar era of German animation -- The filmmakers: biographies -- Select filmography.
