ANIMATION DOCUMENTARIES - a Compilation (½)

yazzydream:

I’ve been meaning to remake my masterpost on animation documentaries for a while. (Especially since amazon no longer allows us to edit our older listmanias.) I love watching stuff like this, so I figure others would as well! I direct linked as many titles as I could to streams, free or otherwise. Feel free to add to this! (Also, quick prelude since you’re gonna hear it a lot: Any time a Disney documentary says Snow White was the first ever animated feature film is a dirty filthy lie.)

Animation Industry

• Anime: Drawing a Revolution (2007)
• Between Frames: The Art of Brazilian Animation (2013; website)
• The CalArts Story (1964)
  
• [NHK Close-up Gendai] No.3620 逆襲なるか　日本アニメ　～海外輸出・新戦略の行方～ (”The Counterattack of Japanese Anime ~Overseas Export - New Strategy~”) (2015; website)
  
• [NHK Close-up Gendai] No.3171 アニメを旅する若者たち　“聖地巡礼”の舞台裏 (”Young People Traveling for Anime ‘Pilgrimage to the Sacred Place’”) (2012; website)
• [NHK Close-up Gendai Plus] ２兆円↑アニメ産業　加速する“ブラック労働” (”2 Trillion Yen ↑ Accelerating Animation Industry ‘Black Labor’”) (2017; website; NHK on how shitty overworked animator wages are.)
• Computer Dreams (1988; this is more a showcase of early cgi than a documentary, but it’s interesting to see anyway.)
• Creature Designers - The Frankenstein Complex (2016; DVD)
  
• Drawn for Glory: Animation’s Triumph at the Oscars (2008; DVD)
  
• Forging the Frame: The Roots of Animation, 1900-1920 (2007; DVD)
  
• Forging the Frame: The Roots of Animation, 1921-1930
• Hollywood’s Greatest Trick (2016; website; about the terrible VFX business model.)
• I Know That Voice (2013; DVD, website)
• Imagine Series 2 Episode 5, “From Pencils to Pixels” (2003; BBC One)
  
• Magia Russica (2004; website; on Soviet Russian animation)
• New-generation animators (2016; website)
  
• Weightless Life - Dialogue With Disney (2006; on Russian animation)
  

Studios

• A Grand Night In: The Story of Aardman (2015)
  
• Fleischer Studios -
  
• The Evolution of Animation: The History of the Fleischer Studios (2007; DVD)
• First Flight: The Fleischer Superman Series (2009; DVD)
  
• Max Fleischer and the New York Style (2007)
• Out of the Inkwell: The Fleischer Story (2008)
• Hanna-Barbera’s 50th: A Yabba Dabba Doo Celebration (1989)
  
• Life After Pi (2014; website; about the collapse of VFX studio Rhythm & Hues.)
  
• Industrial Light & Magic: Creating the impossible (2010)
  
• The Magic of Filmation
  
• Pixar -
• Pixar: 25 Magic Moments (2011; by BBC Three)
• The Pixar Story (2007, DVD; website)
• Walt Disney Studios
• Dream On Silly Dreamer (2005; DVD)
• From Fantasia to Fantasyland (1978)
• The Illusion of Life (1981)
• Walt Disney Treasures - Behind the Scenes at the Walt Disney Studio (DVD; A collection of old behind-the-scenes docs and telecasts.)
• Walt Disney Treasures - Your Host, Walt Disney (DVD; collection of Walt Disney Presents/The Wonderful World of Color)
• Waking Sleeping Beauty (2009; DVD; website)
• Warner Bros. -
• [Camera Three] The Boys Termite Terrace (1975; DVD)
• Irreverent Imagination: The Golden Age of the Looney Tunes (2003; DVD) 
• Unsung Maestros: A Directors Tribute (2007; DVD) 

Anime Studios

• Behind The Scenes! Kyoto Animation Making of Kanon
• Ghibli: The Miyazaki Temple (2005)
  
• Inside Toei Animation (2008)
  
• Kingdom of Dreams & Madness (2013; DVD; on Studio Ghibli.)
• The Story Behind Banjo (2009; DVD; on creating Don Bluth Productions.)
  

Animators/Artists/Voice Actors
Included a few comic artists who’s works are also widely known through animation.

• Al Hirschfeld - The Line King: The Al Hirschfeld Story (1996; DVD; website)
  
• Ami Ankilewitz - 39 Pounds of Love (2005; DVD)
• Art Babbit - Animating Art (1988)
  
• Art Chokey - Gumby Dharma (2006)
• Bill Pylmpton - Adventures in Plymptoons! (2011; DVD)
• Blinky Bill - Blinky and Me (2011; DVD; website)
• Bob Clampett - The Man from Wackyland: The Art of Bob Clampett (2004; DVD)
  
• Bob Godfrey - The Craftsmen - Bob Godfrey (1971)
  
• Bruce Bickford - Monster Road (2004; DVD; website)
• Charles Schulz -
• A Boy Named Charlie Brown (1963; DVD)
• [Biography] Charles Schulz: A Charlie Brown Life
• Good Grief, Charlie Brown: A Tribute to Charles Schulz (2000)
• [American Masters] Good Ol’ Charles Schulz (2007; website)
• Chuck Jones -
• Chuck Amuck: The Movie (1991; DVD)
• Chuck Jones: Extremes and In-Betweens - A Life in Animation (2000; DVD)
• Chuck Jones: Memories of Childhood (2009)
• Heart and Soul: The Timeless Art of Chuck Jones (2007; DVD)
• Eyvind Earle - My Life Eyvind Earle (DVD; autobiographical doc.)
• Floyd Norman - Floyd Norman: An Animated Life (2016; website)
  
• Frank Tashlin - Tish Tash: The Animated World of Frank Tashlin (2005; DVD)
• Frank Thomas & Ollie Johnston - Frank and Ollie (1995; DVD)
• Frank Thomas -  Growing Up with Nine Old Men (2013; DVD)
• Friz Freleng -
• Freleng: Frame by Frame (1994; DVD)
• Friz on Film (2006; DVD)
• Fujiko Fujio - [NHK The Professionals] Episode 214, “プロフェッショナル ザ・レジェンド 僕は、のび太そのものだった” (”The Legend I Was Nobita Itself”) (2013)
  
• Genndy Tartakovsky - Genndy’s Scrapbook: The Story of Genndy Tartakovsky (2005; DVD)
  
• George Pal - Fantasy Film Worlds of George Pal (1985; DVD)
• Gerry & Sylvia Anderson - Filmed in Supermarionation (2014; DVD; website)
• Hayao Miyazaki -
• Journey of the Heart (1998)
• [NHK Documentary] Owaranai Hito: Miyazaki Hayao (“Never-Ending Man: Hayao Miyazaki”) (EN) (2016; website)
• [NHK The Professionals] Special, “「風立ちぬ」1000日の記録” (“Windless” A Record of 1000 Days) (2013)
• [NHK The Professionals] Special, “引退宣言 知られざる物語” (Retirement Announcement Unknown Story) (2013)
• John Lasseter - A Day In The Life of John Lasseter (2011)
• LeSean Thomas - Seoul Sessions (2012)
  
• Lotte Reiniger -
• John Isaacs The Art of Lotte Reiniger (1970)
• Lotte Reiniger: Homage to the Inventor of the Silhouette Film (1999)
• Lou Scheimer - Animation Maverick: The Lou Scheimer Story (2008)
  
• Mary Blair - The Art of Mary Blair (2005)
  
• Mel Blanc - Mel Blanc: The Man of a Thousand Voices (2008; DVD)
• Naoki Urasawa - [NHK The Professionals] Episode 38, “心のままに、荒野を行け” (Go To the Wilderness With Your Heart) (2007)
  
• Norman McLean - McLaren’s Negatives (2006)
• Osamu Tezuka -
• The Art of Osamu Tezuka: God of Manga (2009; DVD)
• Osamu Tezuka Documentary: The Godfather Of Manga
• Pablo Ferro - Pablo (2012; DVD)
• Peter Ellenshaw - Ellenshaw Under Glass
• Quirino Cristiani - The Mystery of the First Animated Movies (2007; website)
• Ralph Bakshi -
• Forging Through the Darkness (2001; DVD)
• Wizards: Ralph Bakshi - The Wizard of Animation (2004)
• Ray Harryhausen -
• The Harryhausen Chronicles (1998; DVD)
• Ray Harryhausen: Special Effects Titan (2011; DVD)
• Richard Williams -
• Richard WIlliams & The Thief Who Never Gave Up (1982)
• I Drew Roger Rabbit (1988)
• Persistence of Vision (2012; DVD; website)
• Robert McKimson - Drawn to Life: The Art of Robert McKimson (2007; DVD)
  
• Ryan Larkin - Ryan (2004; DVD)
  
• Scott T. Petersen - Scott Petersen: Drawn To Animate (2013)
  
• Takehiko Inoue - [NHK The Professionals] Episode 126, “ 闘いの螺旋、いまだ終わらず” (The Battle Spiral, It Has Not Ended Yet) (2009)
  
• Takashi Yanase - 
• [NHK Close-up Gendai] No.3423 アンパンマンに託した夢　～人間・やなせたかし～ (”The Dream I Entrusted to Anpanman ~Human Takashi Yanase~) (2013; website)
• [NHK 知るを楽しむ] 人生の歩き方” - 「正義の味方はカッコ悪い！」やなせたかし (”How to Walk Life” - “The Ally of Justice is Uncool!” Takashi Yanase)
  
• Tex Avery -
• Tex Avery, the King of Cartoons (1988)
• King Size Comedy: Tex Avery and the Looney Toons Revolution (2012)
• Toshio Suzuki - [NHK The Professionals] Episode 10, 自分は信じない 人を信じる (”I Trust People Who Do Not Trust Me”) (2006)
• Ub Iwerks - The Hand Behind The Mouse: The Ub Iwerks Story (1999; DVD)
• Tyrus Wong - Tyrus Wong, Brushstrokes in Hollywood (website)
  
• Walt Disney -
• [American Experience] Walt Disney (2015; DVD; website; take with a pinch of salt and maybe check out this post.)
• Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow: The Futurism of Walt Disney (2016)
• Secret Lives Walt Disney (1995; It’s suuper fucked up, but it’s interesting to compare other docs on Walt.)
• Walt & El Grupo (2008; DVD; website)
• Walt - The Man Behind the Myth (2011; DVD)
• Walt Disney (2016; by BBC Two)
• Winsor McCay - Remembering Winsor McCay (1974; DVD)
• Yoji Kuri - Here We Go with Yoji Kuri! (2008)

Disney Family Album (1984-1986)
Doc series on various Disney animators, actors, etc.

• No. 1 Clarence “Ducky” Nash
• No. 2 Ward Kimball
• No. 3 Sherman Brothers
• No. 4 Jim Macdonald
• No. 5 Milt Kahl
• No. 6 Ken Anderson
• No. 7 Disneyland Designers
• No. 8 Eric Larson
• No. 9 Peter and Harrison Ellenshaw
• No. 10 Woolie Reitherman
• No. 11 Frank Thomas
• No. 12 Voice Actors
• No. 13 WED Imagineers
• No. 14 Golden Horseshoe Revue
• No. 15 Ollie Johnston
• No. 16 Annette Funicello
• No. 17 Marc Davis
• No. 18 The Milottes and the Beebes
• No. 19 Fess Parker/Buddy Ebsen
• No. 20 The Storymen

JUMP Ryu! (ジャンプ流！) (2016; website)
A DVD/magazine series that interviews Shonen Jump mangakas and shows their drawing process.

• Vol. 1 Akira Toriyama (DVD; Dragon Ball)
  
• Vol. 2 Masashi Kishimoto (DVD; Naruto)
• Vol. 3. Eiichiro Oda (DVD; One Piece)
  
• Vol. 4 Tite Kubo (DVD; Bleach)
  
• Vol. 5 Tadatoshi Fujimaki (DVD; Kuroko no Basuke)
  
• Vol. 6 Yusei Matsui (DVD; Assassination Classroom)
  
• Vol. 7 Kōhei Horikoshi (DVD; My Hero Academia)
  
• Vol. 8 Kazuki Takahashi (DVD; Yu-Gi-Oh!)
  
• Vol. 9 Haruichi Furudate (DVD; Haikyu!!)
  
• Vol. 10 Shun Saeki (DVD; Shokugeki no Soma)
  
• Vol. 11 Kentaro Yabuki (DVD; Black Cat, To Love-Ru)
  
• Vol. 12 Nobuhiro Watsuki (Rurouni Kenshin)
  
• Vol. 13 Naoshi Komi (DVD; Nisekoi)
  
• Vol. 14 Masanori Morita (DVD; Rokudenashi Blues)
• Vol. 15 Yusuke Murata (DVD; aka ONE artist of One-Punch Man)
  
• Vol. 16 Shimabukuro Years (Toriko)
  
• Vol. 17 Masakazu Katsura (DVD; Video Girl Ai)
• Vol. 18 Osamu Akimoto (Kochikame)
  
• Vol. 19 Takeshi Obata (DVD; Death Note)
  
• Vol. 20 Kyosuke Usuta (DVD; Pyu to Fuku! Jaguar)
  
• Vol. 21 Yoshihiro Togashi (Hunter X Hunter)
  
• Vol. 22 Hiroyuki Asada (DVD; Tegami Bachi)
  
• Vol. 23 Sorachi Hideaki (Gintama)
  
• Vol. 24 Kazue Kato (Ao no Exorcist)
  
• Vol. 25 Hirohiko Araki (Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure)
  

Musicians

• Raymond Scott - Deconstructing Dad (2010; DVD; website)
• Robert & Richard Sherman - The Boys: The Sherman Brothers’ Story (2009; DVD; website)
• Saori Yuki - [NHK Close-up Gendai] No.3162 世界を魅了する日本の歌謡曲　～由紀さおり　ヒットの秘密～ (”Popular Japanese Songs That Fascinate the World ~Saori Yuki’s Hit Secret~”) (2012; website)
  
• Treg Brown - Crash! Bang! Boom!: The Wild Sounds of Treg Brown (2004; DVD)
  

(Continue to Part 2)

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