Bruce Cornwell's first animated film, produced in Madison, Wisconsin with Phil Barnard. Bruce's handwritten label on the VHS copy that this digital version was taken from reads "Produced by Barnard + Cornwell with support and help of K.S.C." Katharine Saremal and Bruce Cornwell were married in early 1956.
From the University of Wisconsin Alumni news, December 1957:
"A Golden Reel Award in visual arts has been awarded Bruce CORNWELL'52 and Phil BARNARD '49, by the American Film Assembly for a film they produced earlier this year. The unique film "Hogarth's London" was taken by a camera which they built themselves."
The topic of the film is completely unrelated to the geometry and mathematics films that Bruce and Katharine went on to produce, but an eye for uncomplicated presentation and a visual sense of humor is already evident here.
Bruce and Katharine Cornwell produced dozens of highly visual animated educational films between the late 1950s and the late 1970s. They started with traditional paper and cel animation, and moved into using computer animation in its infancy in the late…
Bruce and Katharine Cornwell produced dozens of highly visual animated educational films between the late 1950s and the late 1970s. They started with traditional paper and cel animation, and moved into using computer animation in its infancy in the late 1960s. Much of the work is lost, but films will be posted here as they are found and prepared.
For more background please see bkcfilms.com and the Academic Film Archive of North America afana.org .
The copyrights to the films are now owned by sons Eric and Scott Cornwell who are releasing them under a Creative Commons license to encourage artists, educators, and others to give these images new life by reusing them in whole or in part in their own work. We request only the attribution "Includes film images originally produced by Bruce and Katharine Cornwell." Note that while the music is licensed for use in exhibiting the films in their complete form, we do not have authority to relicense it for other use, so the invitation to reuse elements from the films applies to the images only, except where noted.
