Creative Person; 32; Richard Williams
- Series
- Creative Person
- Episode Number
- 32
- Episode
- Richard Williams
- Producing Organization
- National Educational Television and Radio Center
- AAPB ID
- cpb-aacip/516-ws8hd7px61
- NOLA Code
- CRPN
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- Description
- Episode Description
- Richard Williams is one of the contemporary generation of film animators who are attempting to give animation its full status as an art form, and he may very well be the first to succeed in this ambition a young Canadian who owns his own studio in England, he is generally cited as one of the few top-rank creative artists in the field today. We meet him in the Soho section of London, a jungle of narrow alleys and Switched-on people. By night it is the heart of Londons striptease belt; by day it is center of Britains troubled film industry. Williams personality is faithfully reflected in the staff of Richard Williams Animated Films Ltd. a shaggy beatnik who is mathematical genius, a semi-paralytic who draws beautifully with his ones good hand, a gruff American outcast from Disneyland, and a suave, bearded Arab business manager. Every frame of film that comes from Williams studio bears the unmistaken-able stamp of his mind. A brief selection of excerpts from his films gives us an idea of that quality. The Little Island, fable demonstrates the disastrous consequences of a rigid belief in one abstract idea to the exclusion of others. The film established Williams reputation as an animator with a message. We also see bits from his Love Me, Love Me, Love Me, a one-reeler about a man who loves, not wisely but too well, a stuffed alligator named Charlie. There are also parts of his forthcoming I. Vor Puttfalks, Universal Confidence Man, a stylized essay on manners and morals which attacks modern image makers and mass manipulators. In a barnlike studio north of London, we see Williams at work on an animated commercial message which plugs an undistinguished chain of London restaurant called Peter Evans Eating Houses. From there we follow him to his Bayswater flat, where he spends the small hours working alone at his animation board on a sequence for Pittsfalks. We watch in detail the agonizing process of rendering movement frame by frame, line by line, twenty-forth-of-a-second by twenty-forth-of-a-second, perhaps entering from a moment the very mind of the film animator. The Creative Person: Richard Williams is a National Educational Television production. (Description adapted from documents in the NET Microfiche)
- Series Description
- This series focuses on the private vision of the creative person. Each program is devoted to a 20th century artist whose special qualities of imagination, taste, originality, intelligence, craftsmanship, and individuality have marked him as a pace-setter in his field. These artists --- whose fields span the entire gamut of the art world --- include filmmaker Jean Renoir, poet John Ciardi, industrial designer Raymond Loewy, Hollywood producer-director King Vidor, noted Broadway couple Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee, artist Leonard Baskin, humorist James Thurber, satirist Robert Osborn, Indian musician Ravi Shankar, poet P. G. Wodehouse, painter Georges Braque, former ballet star Olga Spessivtzeva, Rudolf Bing, and Marni Nixon. The format for each program has been geared to the individual featured; Performance, interview, and documentary technique are employed interchangeably. The Creative Person is a 1965 production of National Educational Television. The N.E.T. producers are Jack Sameth, Jac Venza, Lane Slate, Thomas Slevin, Brice Howard, Craig Gilbert, and Jim Perrin. (Description adapted from documents in the NET Microfiche)
- Broadcast Date
- 1967-01-15
- Asset type
- Episode
- Genres
- Documentary
- Topics
- Fine Arts
- Film and Television
- Media type
- Moving Image
- Credits
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Director: Morgan, Robert
Editor: Morgan, Robert
Guest: Williams, Richard
Producer: Sheers, Jay C.
Producing Organization: National Educational Television and Radio Center
- AAPB Contributor Holdings
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Indiana University Libraries Moving Image Archive
Identifier: [request film based on title] (Indiana University)
Format: 16mm film
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- Citations
- Chicago: “Creative Person; 32; Richard Williams,” 1967-01-15, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed July 6, 2025, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-516-ws8hd7px61.
- MLA: “Creative Person; 32; Richard Williams.” 1967-01-15. American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. July 6, 2025. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-516-ws8hd7px61>.
- APA: Creative Person; 32; Richard Williams. Boston, MA: American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-516-ws8hd7px61