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High-school animator in 1972: Vintage Super-8 educational film on animation techniques, preserved on relic VHS tape

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First prize (post-secondary) - 6th Annual British Columbia Student Film Festival, 1974. Independent Super 8-mm film made by Grade-12 student, Stephen Bowlsby, age 17, while attending Hillside Secondary School in West Vancouver, with final production recording supported by the UBC Faculty of Education. Educational film on animation techniques, as told from a Martian telecast by a Martian presenter -- demonstrating ink and paint on cels, stop motion (model, object, plasticine, pixilation), cutouts, and “filmography” (motion graphics). Original film is in the collection of the University of British Columbia Faculty of Education, Dept. of Audiovisual Media. Copyright © Stephen Arthur (ne Stephen Arthur Bowlsby)

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Stephen Arthur Bowlsby

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Adolescent, teenage, high school, educational, animation techniques, untrained, surviving, deteriorated, relic, vintage, ethnographic, artifact, memorial, legacy, hand drawn, cel animation, stop motion, object animation, pixilation, youth animation, antique, obsolete, independent film, 1970s, telecine VHS transfer, image loss, restored, Vancouver, Canada, Stephen Bowlsby, Stephen Arthur, Super 8 mm, film

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