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UPA at MoMA, 1955
September 12, 2007 8:55 am
UPDATE: Let’s try this again. I apologize that the post didn’t appear on the Cartoon Modern blog last night. A funky accident deleted the post and forced me to rewrite the whole thing. It’s up now. This evening I posted a rare bit of previously lost animation history on the Cartoon Modern blog: photographs from the 1955 UPA tribute at MoMA. While I knew about this exhibit, I had never seen any photos from the show or had any idea how the artwork was presented. A couple months ago though, while working on Inside UPA, we discovered this set of photos in a storage box. These pics offer a terrific sense what it might have been like to attend this show in the 1950s. And if you want a sense of what it was like to actually work at the UPA studio, be sure to pick up a copy of the forthcoming Cartoon Brew book Inside UPA. You can lock in the lower pre-order price if you buy the book by this Saturday, September 15. The print run is only 1000 copies and quite a few are gone already. |
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I’m hoping you’ll have copies for sale in Ottawa for your retrospectives on UPA
Somehow the pictures don’t appear to be on the Cartoon Modern site. The link doesn’t work properly at the moment.
Amid– when I click on the link to the pictures, they are apparently still “lost”. ? I would love to see them and am looking forward to the new UPA book. I personally appreciate any/all the stuff you and Jerry post about UPA and particularly Mr. Magoo ! Keep up the good work. DJA
The ambiance of these MOMA pictures backs the recently-articulated perception that UPA really was the Pixar of its day.
Many thanks for posting the exhibit photos. I vividly remember seeing the UPA exhibit at MOMA, which was in the Museum’s basement exhibition space, which also served as a sort of lobby for their theater. As I recall, there were a series of UPA films (theatrical/nontheatrical/TV) that were screened at 2:00 p.m., providing a half hour break before the Museum’s regular 3:00 p.m. screenings. As a regular habitué of the Museum’s screenings, I (along with my older brother Bob) managed to see all the UPA films and many chances to peruse the exhibit.