SYMPOSIUM


ANIMATION AROUND THE WORLD
SYMPOSIUM OF THE 2012 FIAF BEIJING CONGRESS
23-24 APRIL 2012

The topic for the symposium is “Animation around the World” and the talks will focus on the three following themes:
acquisition, preservation & restoration, and access.

TIME
1st DAY (23 APRIL)
SPEAKERS
9h00 – 9h10

Opening of the Symposium Eric Le Roy, (AFF-CNC, Bois d’Arcy)
9h10 – 9h30 Keynote Address :
Animation – Art, Entertainment and a Light Thing
Hisashi Okajima (NFC, Tokyo)
  THEME 1 :
ARCHIVAL COLLECTIONS
Session Chair : tbc
9h30 – 9h55 Collection, Development & Access of Animation at the CFA Sun Xianghui, (CFA, Beijing)
9h55 – 10h20 The Collection of Animation Drawings of the
Cinématèque française : The Preservation of Cels
Françoise Lemerige &
Jacques Ayroles
(Cinémathèquefrançaise, Paris)
10h20 – 10h40 Coffee Break  
10h40 – 11h05 The Halas and Batchelor Collection Jez Stewart (BFI, London)
11h05 – 11h30 Restoring Japanese ‘Record Talkie’ Animation Akira Tochigi (NFC – Tokyo)
11h30 – 11h55 Magic and Enchantment: Lotte Reiniger’s Silhouette
Films
Bernd Desinger
(Filmmuseum Düsseldorf)
11h55 – 12h20 The Archives du Film-CNC’s Frenkel Brothers
Collection
Eric Le Roy (AFF-CNC, Bois d’Arcy)
12h20 – 13h45 Lunch  
  THEME 2:
COLLECTING, PRESERVING, RESTORING
Session Chair :
Lise Gustavson (NFI, Oslo)
13h45 – 14h10 The Collection of Early Chinese Animation Films Zhu Tianwei (CFA, Beijing)
14H10 – 14h35 Classics of Chinese Animation preserved by the
CDCC
Marie-Claire Kuo-Quiquemelle
(CDCC, Paris)
14h35 – 15h00 The Collection & Preservation of Art Archive of Qian
Jiajun
Li Zhen (CFA, Beijing)
15h00 – 15h25 Ivo Caprino: A Career in Animation Ove Solum (University of Oslo / The
National Library of Norway, Oslo)
15h25 - 15h50 Coffee Break  
15h50 - 16h15 A Previously Unseen Film by Gordon Webber Marco de Blois (Cinémathèque
québécoise, Montréal)
16h15 – 17h00 Round Table with the speakers of the day Chair : Mr FU (CFA, Beijing)
     
TIME
2nd DAY (24 APRIL)
SPEAKERS
  THEME 2 (Continued):
COLLECTING, PRESERVING, RESTORING
Session Chair :
tbc
9h30 – 9h55 Film Poverty. Self-made Film Artist - Joseph Antonisz
and His Non-camera Movies
Tadeusz Kowalski & Elzbieta Wysocka (Filmoteka
Narodowa, Warsaw)
9h55 – 10h20 Portrait of Walter Ruttmann Stefan Droessler (Filmmuseum
München)
10h20 – 10h45 The Textual Research & Restoration of Early Chinese
Animation
Huang Dequan & Yang Xiaokang
(CFA, Beijing)
10h45 – 11h10 Coffee Break  
11h10 – 11h35 Preserving the World Animated Legacy: Princess of
Iron Fan, The First Chinese Feature Length Animation
Ray Jiing (Tainan National University of the Arts, Taipei)
11h35 – 12h00 A Short history of Animation Cinema in Belgium: The
Collections at the Film Archive and the Preservation
Work Done on this Collection.
Victor De Vocht (Royal Belgian
Filmarchive, Brussels)
12h00 – 12h25 Emile Reynaud: A Unique Collection from the Origins of Cinema Jean-Baptiste Garnero (AFF-CNC,
Bois d’Arcy)
12h25 – 13h45 Lunch  
  THEME 3 :
ACCESS AND CIRCULATION
Session Chair :
Robin Baker (BFI, London)
13h45– 14h10 The UCLA Silent Animation Digital Access Project Mark Quigley (UCLA, Los Angeles)
14h10 – 14h35 Presentation of Puppet Animation Film in Slovenia Igor Prassel (Slovenska Kinoteka,
Ljubljana)
14h35 – 15h00 Noburo Ofuji, an Animation Filmmaker Saved from
Oblivion
Hidenori Okada (NFC, Tokyo)
15h00 – 15h25 The Apparitions project: From the Preservation to the
Screening of the Phonoscopic Prints.
Julien Faraut (INSEP, Paris)
15h25 – 15h50 Coffee Break  
15h50 – 16h30 Round Table with the speakers of the day Chair: Marco de Blois
16h30–17h00 Concluding Remarks Sylvia Frank (Film Reference Library, Toronto)