Episode 5 - Yellow Submarine (George Dunning, 1968)

Yellow Submarine (George Dunning, 1968).

Yellow Submarine (George Dunning, 1968).

The Fantasy/Animation podcast takes listeners on a journey through the intersection between fantasy cinema and the medium of animation. Available via Apple Podcasts, Spotify and many of your favourite podcast hosting platforms!

Episode 5 takes Chris and Alex on a magical mystery tour through psychedelic British animation of the 1960s thanks to Yellow Submarine (George Dunning, 1968). This animated fantasy musical mixes playful caricatures of John, Paul, George, and Ringo with a colourful, abstract and, at times, surreal visual style from art director Heinz Edelmann. Drawing from both classical, folk and pop music, sixties rebellious youth culture, and The Beatles’ own rock and roll repertoire, Yellow Submarine presented the possibilities for animation as a significant and serious art form.

Suggested Readings

  • Cohen, Karl F. 1997. Forbidden Animation: Censored Cartoons and Blacklisted Animators in America. North Carolina: McFarland & Company, Inc.

  • Mendlesohn, Farah. 2008. Rhetorics of Fantasy. Middletown: Wesleyan University Press.

  • Torre, Dan. 2015. “Boiling Lines and Lightning Sketches: Process and the Animated Drawing,” animation: an interdisciplinary journal 10, no. 2 (2015): 141-153, available here.

  • Wells, Paul. 2002. Animation: Genre and Authorship. London: Wallflower Press.

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