Cecile Starr and Experimental Animation

Table of Contents

Preface ‒ Scott Hammen

Remembering Cecile Starr

Kit Smyth Basquin

Pip Chodorov

Stephan Chodorov

Devon Damonte

Cindy Keefer

Jodie Mack

Discovering the Movies

1. The Great Méliès

2. From Abstract to Concrete

3. The Art of Animation

4. Norman McLaren and the Essence of Animation

5. Fantasy and Reality: A Conclusion

Experimental Animation

6. A Note on the Origins of Animation

7. Pioneers of Abstract Animation in Europe

8. Pioneers of Abstract Animation in America

9. Norman McLaren and the National Film Board of Canada

Notes and Essays

10. The Mother of the American Avant‐Garde Film

11. Invisible Women

12. Fine Art Animation

13. Two Statements by Mary Ellen Bute

14. Hilla Rebay and the Guggenheim Nexus

15. Storm De Hirsch 

A Biographical Note