A building at 2449 Charlotte St. on Hospital Hill, former home of the
Kansas City Slide Co., where A. Vern Cauger hired Disney in 1920, was
bought last year by the University of Missouri-Kansas City, which plans to
demolish the site to make way for a life-sciences facility and parking lot.
Disney worked for more than two years at the Charlotte address, helping
produce slides and one-minute films shown as advertisements in movie
theaters. He worked alongside other Kansas City artists who, like him,

A collection that includes several Felix the Cat films, as well as more than 1,500 16mm and 35mm silent films and a vast archive of stills, large-format celebrity portraits, clippings and other memorabilia from Hollywood's Silent Movie Theater will be offered at auction by Butterfield & Butterfield in Los Angeles, California, USA May 23 and 24, 1999. For more information contact Butterfield & Butterfield, Los Angeles, Michael Schwartz, (323) 850-7500 ext. 295; or Levi Morgan, (323) 850-7500 ext. 216; or (415) 861-7500 ext. 348.

*Wednesday, May 19th - Friday, May 21st. Los Angeles, California, USA.


Highlights of the 1999 Conference and Film Festival of the Large Format
Cinema Association include a tribute to large format film pioneer Lester
Novros, the Large Format Film Festival, Large Format animated films, panel
discussions about theater operations and industry business, sessions
exploring production and post production technology, and a screening of
LAWRENCE OF ARABIA. For more information contact LFCA at (310) 823-4901.

Each year, Annie Award trophies are awarded for the year's best feature
film, video, television program, commercial, and animated interactive
production, as well as individual achievement by artists, writers and voice
talent. The most prestigious awards given at the annual award ceremonies
are the June Foray award, presented for special service to the artform, and
the Winsor McCay award for a lifetime of achievement in animation. The 27th
Annual Annie Awards ceremony will take place Saturday, November 6, 1999 at

The EUROGRAPHICS Symposium on Visualization takes place Wednesday, May 26 -
Friday, May 28. Vienna, Austria. It will feature research papers about all
areas of visualization that will present original scientific ideas or
significant improvements to existing techniques, as well as case studies on
the successful application of visualization methods to special problems.
Contact info: Eduard Groeller, VisSym '99 Institute of Computer Graphics,
Vienna Univ. of Technology, Karlsplatz 13/186/2, A-1040 Wien, Austria.
E-mail: vissym99@cg.tuwien.ac.at.

*Tuesday, May 18th, 12 - 6 pm. New York, New York, USA.


Works by graduating seniors of the film, video, and animation departments
of The School of Visual Arts will be shown at the Loews Cineplex Worldwide
Cinemas (50th Street and 8th Avenue). A reception and awards ceremony
follows the screenings, beginning at 7 pm.

On May 8th in San Antonio the National Cartoonists Society held its 51st
Annual Reuben Awards dinner, and two of their awards went to animation
cartoonists. This year Chen Yi Chiang, the character designer for Disney's
MULAN, won the Best Feature Animation award, and Danny Antonucci, of
Cartoon Network's ED, EDD N EDDY, won for Best Television Animation artist.
The NCS was formed by newspaper cartoonists in1946 and over the years have
branched out to encompass other forms of cartooning like editorial

Universal Studios Hollywood's TERMINATOR 2: 3D attraction recreates the dark foreboding futuristic world of the Terminator films in a twelve minute long 3-D film. The attraction is a sequel of sorts to James Cameron's TERMINATOR 2, a multi-sensory "virtual adventure." Up to 700 guests at a time can experience TERMINATOR 2: 3D, which is projected by six 70mm Iwerks projectors onto three 23' by 50' screens. This all-new Terminator adventure features the original TERMINATOR 2 cast including Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Edward Furlong, and Robert Patrick.

The E3 '99 Exposition takes place Wednesday, May 12 - Saturday, May 15 at the Los Angeles Convention Center in Los Angeles, California, USA. This year's Exposition will feature over 400 exhibitors displaying new software titles and the latest hardware. Don Tapscott will deliver the keynote address on Thursday, May 13 at 8:45 am about the area of digital economy and the net generation.

*Friday, May 14th, 8 pm. North Hollywood, California, USA.


Students in the Experimental Animation program at CalArts will show their
films at the Academy Plaza Theater, 5230 Lankershim Blvd., North Hollywood,
California. For more information call (805) 253-7818.


Read about the teaching philosophy of Jules Engel, CalArts' Founding
Director of the Experimental Animation Program, in this month's issue of
Animation World Magazine in "Jules Engel: the Mentor".

*Thursday, May 6, 6:30 pm. New York, New York, USA.


Senior Thesis work from students of the Computer Art department of The
School of Visual Arts will be exhibited in the Westside Gallery at 141 West
21st Street between 6th and 7th Avenues. The exhibit includes computer
animation, digital video, interactive media, digital fine art, and
installations. A Portfolio Night and reception will be held May 6, and the
exhibit will be on display May 6 to May 24. For more information call

*Friday, May 7th - Sunday, May 9th, Valencia, California, USA.


Students in the Character Animation program at CalArts will screen their
films at the Bijou at CalArts, 24700 McBean PKWY, Valencia, California.
Open shows: May 7th at 8 pm; May 8th at 7 pm; and May 9th at 1:30 pm and 7
pm. Producers Show: Thursday, May 13th at 7 pm. For more information call
(805) 253-7818.

Spice up your resume with recruiter and career coach Pamela Thompson at
the Women in Animation Dinner Meeting on Tuesday, May 4 at 7 pm. The event
takes place at Acapulco Restaurant, 3113 W. Olive, Burbank, California. $25
member, $35 non-members. RSVP by May 1 at (310) 535-3838. Please bring a
resume and pen.

Andreas Wessel-Therborn, animator, will speak on The Animator on Animating as part of The Careers in Animation Third Annual Lecture Series. Mr. Wessel-Therborn has worked on THE THIEF AND THE COBBLER, SPACE JAM, BALTO, TARZAN, and FANTASIA 2000. The event takes place Tuesday, May 4, at 7 pm in the Glendale Community College Auditorium, 1500 North Verdugo Road, Glendale, California, USA. Admission is $5 in advance, or $7 at the door. Tickets are available from GCC Bookstore Business Office (818) 240-1000, ext. 5695; or ASIFA-Hollywood (818) 842-8330.

Michel Ocelot's new feature film, KIRIKOU AND THE SORCERESS, will be
screened as part of the DGA (Directors Guild of America) film festival,
City of Lights: A Week of French Films. The screening will take place
Saturday, May 1 at 1 pm in Los Angeles, California. For ticket information,
call (310) 289 2000. There are currently no plans to release the film in
the USA, so this may be your only chance to see what appears to be, based
on the pressbook images, a very beautiful film. The story is based on

The recently concluded Cartoons on the Bay festival in Poistano, Italy has announced its awards. The Golden Pulcinella for best character went to the Little Entertainment Co.'s BILLY, an animated British TV series for pre-schoolers about an infant daydreamer. The Golden Pulcinella for best program went to Folimage's CHARLIE'S CHRISTMAS, a French TV film about an abandoned child's friendship with a postman.

D.FILM and The New Venue in association with Atom Films and Evan's Star
Wars Cinema present a new online Star Wars-inspired filmmaking contest. To
enter, send in a short script for a Star Wars spoof. Short means very short
- a story that can be told in two minutes or less. A panel of celebrity
judges (headed by a prominent member of the original Trilogy cast) will
review the scripts. At the end of April, the judges will select a script,
and hand it over to a team of innovative digital filmmakers, including

* Through April 24. Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.


A selection of personal paintings and production pieces from the collection of UPA artist and experimental animator Jules Engel will be exhibited at the Tobey Moss Gallery (7321 Beverly Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90036) through April 24. Also included in the exhibit are his sculptures and paintings from Disney's FANTASIA. The gallery is open Tuesday through Saturday from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. For additional information, call (323) 933-5523.

Action's New Independent Talents Contest is aimed at the independent 3D
artist. Prizes include hardware and software as well as transfers to 35 mm
film so that films may be shown in movie theatres. There is no entry fee.
Deadline for entries is October 10, 1999. For more information visit
www.club-internet.fr/films-action.

Tom Sito will host an evening with Phil Mendez on Wednesday, April 28 at
7:30 pm. Phil is one of the pioneering African American artists in American
animation, a designer, author, director and storyteller. He was Marc Davis'
assistant at Disney during the development of some of the his famous
attractions at Disneyland. He has done work for Disney Feature Animation,
Hanna-Barbera, Jack Zander, and Phil Kimmelman, and he was with Ralph
Bakshi at the beginning of FRITZ THE CAT and HEAVY TRAFFIC. Don't miss this