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Today we bring you Part Two of Richard Gorey’s review of the It All Started Here exhibition, brought to you by Howard Beckerman and J. J. Sedelmaier. It All Started Here: Part 2 Review by Richard Gorey. It All Started Here took up two levels of gallery space. The first floor, dominated by a life-sized cutout of Gertie the Dinosaur, was dedicated to the storyboards and designs of the classic theatrical cartoons. Further back were examples of TV ads from the fifties: work that kept many New York studios in the black during that time, when theatrical shorts became largely extinct. Visitors got a chance to see art and the final spots from the famous “Bert and Harry” Piel’s Beer ads, a sampling of some of the UPA films and television spots from the same era, and the work of artists like Jules Feiffer, whose social satire Munro was represented by the complete rough storyboards, on a wall dedicated to these charming sketches. The gallery’s vault (a novel and distinctive element of the former bank’s aesthetic appeal) opened to a series of projected commercials and short films created on Madison Avenue. Co-curator Sedelmaier’s work, including the series of ribald...

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Today we bring you Part One of Richard Gorey’s wonderful review of the retrospective of NY’s Animation History last month, brought to you by Howard Beckerman and J. J. Sedelmaier. Stay tuned tomorrow, for Part 2. It All Started Here: Part 1 Review by Richard Gorey. Howard Beckerman, co-curator of the Westchester Arts Center’s animation exhibit, recently told me, “I’ve always said the two best-kept secrets of world War II were the development of the Atom Bomb and that Animation began–and was still being produced–in New York, not just California.” Last month, Beckerman and animation producer J.J. Sedelmaier helped to spread the word about one of these “best kept secrets” in their White Plains gallery show It All Started Here, a retrospective of New York animation over the last century. The show championed the creativity, individuality, and uniquely “East Coast” personality of the work featured, but It All Started Here also served as an instructional tour through the specifics of traditional, hand-drawn animation production. A diverse sampling of commercial and independent New York films were represented, but the Westchester Arts gallery featured everything from tools, cameras, light boxes, projectors, desks, paints and even the computers instrumental in designing, storyboarding...

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