Barrie Nelson (1933 - 2021) was a
Canadian
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animator.
["Animation demanding but fascinating"]
''Fort McMurray Today
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The daily newspaper was ...
'', August 9, 1978. He was most noted as the director of the 1971 animated short film ''
Propaganda Message
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'',
[Martin Malina]
"Man & his films: A survey of the movie fare at the fair"
''Montreal Star
''The Montreal Star'' was an English-language Canadian newspaper published in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It closed in 1979 in the wake of an eight-month pressmen's strike.
It was Canada's largest newspaper until the 1950s and remained the dominan ...
'', July 24, 1971. and the "B-17" segment of the 1981 animated anthology film ''
Heavy Metal''.
Early life and career
A native of
Winnipeg
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, he studied fine art at the
University of Manitoba
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, where he joined
John Hubley
John Kirkham Hubley (May 21, 1914 – February 21, 1977) was an American animation director, art director, producer and writer known for his work with the United Productions of America , United Productions of America (UPA) and his own independent ...
's studio and was one of the animators of the
Academy Award
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-winning ''
A Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass Double Feature
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''.
[ He had a number of other animation credits, both with Hubley and on various animated television series, before making ''Propaganda Message'' for the ]National Film Board of Canada
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in 1971; the film won a gold award at the first USA International Animation Film Festival in New York City
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in 1972.
He also worked on the 1978 animated adaptation of ''Watership Down
''Watership Down'' is an adventure novel by English author Richard Adams, published by Rex Collings Ltd of London in 1972. Set in Berkshire in southern England, the story features a small group of rabbits. Although they live in their natural ...
'' and the 1990 TV special ''Garfield's Feline Fantasies''.
Films
He also later made the short film ''Ten: The Magic Number'', about the adoption of the metric system
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in Canada, for the NFB.[Frank Daley]
"Cartoon festival wild, wonderful"
''Ottawa Journal
The ''Ottawa Journal'' was a daily broadsheet newspaper published in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, from 1885 to 1980.
It was founded in 1885 by A. Woodburn as the ''Ottawa Evening Journal''. Its first editor was John Wesley Dafoe who came from the ...
'', August 12, 1976. In the United States he continued to work on animated films and television series,[ and made at least four short films that were submitted for ]Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film
The Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film is an award given by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) as part of the annual Academy Awards, or Oscars, since the 5th Academy Awards (with different names), covering the year ...
consideration: ''Keep Cool'' (1971),[Triumphs of Animation At the Biograph - The Washington Post](_blank)
/ref> and ''You Can't Teach an Old Dog New Tricks'' (1984).
See also
*Animation in the United States in the television era
Animation in the United States in the television era was a period in the history of American animation that slowly set in with the decline of theatrical animated shorts and the popularization of television animation during the late 1950s to 1960s, ...
*Independent animation The term independent animation refers to animated shorts and feature films produced outside a major national animation industry.
A good portion of the work is viewed in animation festivals and private screen rooms along with schools that produce ...
References
External links
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1933 births
Living people
20th-century Canadian artists
Canadian animators
Canadian expatriates in the United States
Artists from Winnipeg
University of Manitoba alumni
National Film Board of Canada people