25 years of animation made for Sesame Street
News:

• Colossal Pictures downsizes & Gary Gutierrez leaves the company
• Don't miss Spike and Mike's 96 Festival of Animation
• PDI does Lego ad for foreign TV
• PDI expends in size and moves to a larger location
• "Good grief, you're 45 Charlie Brown" is a large exhibit of work by Charles M. Shulz, coming to the Cartoon Art Museum May 8 - Sept. 1
• Cartoon Art Museum will be open free to the public on sunday, May 19
• Taste Ben and Jerry's Doonesbury Sorbet at the Cartoon Art Museum on Wed. June 5
• Animation and effects directed a corporate video for Sun Microsystems using animation by Pixar
• Barbara Klutinis wins a $500 award at the 34th Ann Arbor Film Festival. The Cinematheque will show the work May 19
• Richard C. Zimmerman previewed his new short before packed houses at Spike & Mike Show - It's a hit!
• Lorie Loeb and 4 former students did animation for a documentary that will air on PBS
• UC Berkley gratuate film studies students held a mini-animation conference
• News from Pixar
• Living Room Festival is alive and planning to show eight shows on KQED this fall
• Computer animation training program funded by California employment training panel

Local screenings
National News:

• Acme Filmworks is offering the advertising industry an amazing line-up of animation talent
• Animation World Network is now on line
• Show of Aardman Animation doing excellent box office
• May 5 is National Cartoonist Day
• Bess Culter Gallery is getting excellent press coverage for their exhibit of Japanese animation art
• ASIFA-East presented a program with New York's Oscar nominated animators
• ASIFA-Central (Chicago) wins an award for their web site
• ASIFA-Hollywood and ASIFA-NW
• Why the christian right is boycotting Disney

Unusual things for sale:

• Optical toys
• The portable animation "Tote" board
• Fandom directory #16
• Elmo Aardvark- Classic carton soundtracks

Employment:

• Warner Brothers Feature Animation
• Several Companies

Why study the Alexander technique?
A remembrance of Shamus Culhane by Maria Elena Rodriguez
Late News:

• The Feature "Frank and Ollie" about two of Disney's Nine Old Men opens May 3 for a week run in the Bay area
• Congratulations Sauching NG
• Fifth Los Angeles International Animation Celebration and other Tournee of Animation

Festivals

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