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‘ClayDream’: A Lively Look at Stop-Motion Maestro Will Vinton for Vintage Toon Geeks

The following review by Peter Debruge of a documentary about Will Vinton (Laika Studios) appeared in Variety on August 4, 2022. We are reposting below. The Book of…

‘Pinocchio’ Oscar casts spotlight on Portland filmmaking, and stop-motion animation

Read an excerpt from an “Oregonian” article published on March 19, 2023: Last weekend, Guillermo del Toro, Mark Gustafson and their team won the Oscar for best animated…

Underground USA

UNDERGROUND USA was a one day public history/arts education event which focused on one chapter of Oregon print cartooning history. It took place on October 15, 2016 at…

Portland Pop in Three Centuries

Portland is a pop machine. The first American political cartoonist to achieve superstar status, Homer Davenport, made his professional debut in Portland. Mel Blanc, the most revered voice…

Mid Century Oregon Genius

Image: Screenshot taken from THE OLIVE TREES OF JUSTICE When Will Vinton and Bob Gardiner won their Oscar in 1975, independent film making in Oregon seemed to be…

The 2015 Oregon Cartoon Institute Pop-Up Storefront

“The Portland Sign” by Christopher Neugebauer is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0. A project that never took place was a planned pop-up storefront to educate people about Oregon’s…

Oregon Midcentury Genius presents: Selected Short Films by Homer Groening (January 2015)

On Jan. 17, 2015, Mid Century Oregon Genius (a project by the Oregon Cartoon Institute) presented an evening of selected short films by the award winning independent filmmaker…

Oregon Film History Conference 2017

The Third Annual Oregon Film History Conference took place on May 5, 2017. The conference was supported by Oregon Film, Oregon Film Museum, and Picture This Production Services…

Oregon Film History Conference 2018

The Fourth Annual Oregon Film History Conference Oregon’s Minor Cinemas took place on May 4, 2018. The conference was supported by University of Oregon Libraries, Oregon Film, Oregon…

Our History

The Lead Up: Celluloid Signal Combine In 2010, Anne Richardson presented the project “The Portland That Was” at the conference “Reimagining the Archive” at UCLA. The project was…