Harry Palmer (animator)

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Harry S. Palmer was an animator in the United States. [1] About 20 of his films are preserved in the Library of Congress. He worked at Gaumont Film Company's American division in Flushing, New York. [2] [3]

In 1911, a notice was printed advertising his becoming a contributor to the Vancouver World . [4] On December 14, 1912, the Vancouver Sun published his cartoon mocking the U.S. for not heeding calls for Panama Canal arbitration. [5]

One news brief stated he was working on animations titled Kriterion Komic Kartoon. [6]

Showings of Mutual's See America First series were sometimes accompanied by Palmer's cartoon films including They Say Pigs is Pigs (1917) [7] [8] [9] and Rastus Runs Amuck, shown with a See America First film about sights in Oregon and along the Mississippi River. His short Rastus Runs Amuck was described in Motion Picture World as "a quaint little oddity of pickaninny life animated for the screen." [8]

Filmography

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References

  1. ↑ "Griffithiana". Cineteca D.W. Griffith. May 3, 1998 – via Google Books.
  2. 1 2 "National Film Preservation Foundation: I'm Insured (1916)". www.filmpreservation.org.
  3. ↑ palmer, h s (harry s ). "Search results from Origins of American Animation, Available Online, Palmer, H. S. (Harry S.)". Library of Congress.
  4. ↑ "New Cartoonist, Harry S. Palmer joins Vancouver World". Vancouver Daily World. May 31, 1911. p. 1 – via newspapers.com.
  5. ↑ "America Refuses to Listen, a Harry S. Palmer cartoon". Vancouver Daily World. December 14, 1912. p. 1 – via newspapers.com.
  6. ↑ Windsor, Henry Havens (May 3, 1915). "Cartoons Magazine". H. H. Windsor, Editor and Publisher – via Google Books.
  7. ↑ "The Moving Picture World". World Photographic Publishing Company. May 3, 1917 – via Google Books.
  8. 1 2 "The Moving Picture World". World Photographic Publishing Company. May 3, 1917 – via Google Books.
  9. ↑ "Motography". May 3, 1916 – via Google Books.
  10. ↑ Hoffer, Thomas W. (May 3, 1981). Animation, a Reference Guide. Greenwood Press. ISBN   9780313210952 – via Google Books.
  11. ↑ American Silent Film. SIU Press. ISBN   9780809389100 – via Google Books.
  12. ↑ "The Moving Picture World". World Photographic Publishing Company. May 3, 1916 – via Google Books.
  13. ↑ "Harry Palmer Animated Film Ham and Eggs in Production 1916". The Evening World. February 5, 1916. p. 6 – via newspapers.com.
  14. ↑ Sampson, Henry T. (May 3, 1998). That's Enough, Folks: Black Images in Animated Cartoons, 1900-1960. Scarecrow Press. ISBN   9780810832503 – via Google Books.
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  16. ↑ Webb, Graham (May 3, 2000). The Animated Film Encyclopedia: A Complete Guide to American Shorts, Features, and Sequences, 1900-1979. McFarland. ISBN   9780786407286 – via Google Books.
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