Don`t Take History so Seriously, Man!

I hunted up the filmmaker of the 3 flawed animation histories (sic) and suggested that he would be better served as a filmmaker if he removed these films. He seems to have been the big shoot in the film department at an up state New York liberal arts college. Looks like he is out here in the L.A. area after graduation. That says to me that he is trying to break into the film industry. And by looking at his work www.youtube.com/user/flagday84 he seems to want to be a documentary filmmaker. A documentary filmmaker that doesn`t give a damn about facts, just what we need.

I like some of his films like Cheater, a half chalkboard animation half live action piece with a really nice story arc. But with his attitude towards facts I just can`t trust his documentary films.

Hi Larry, what can I do for you?

Aaron,

It is more what I can do for you. I have seen your films. Liked the one with the chalk board. I have also seen your 3 part history of animation youtube films. The first one is okay but frankly you mispronounce Pathe and Fantasmagorie.

Part 2 and 3 are a complete embarrassment with more mispronunciations and a lot of false information. You should pull them. They are only going to embarrass you and spread false information about animation.

I sent a link to part 3 to my friend Tee Bosustow, son of famed UPA founder Stephen Bosustow (Baa-Sus-Toe not gods help us Bass-is-sow). Here is what he has to say.

wow, what a horrible mess, on top of it all, he ripped off my photo of the three founders with my font on it, and several generations down, so it looks really bad, and then he uses the Screen Gems Fox and Crows when he's talking about the UPA Fox and Crows, and a Saperstein Magoo, for the Columbia Magoo, and so on. Thanks to the warning. I gotta get back on my doc on UPA, before more of this stuff gets out,

thanks, tee

Sorry for bad news but I feel you really need to know

Larry

Look man, this was a class project from when I was a sophomore in college, don't take yourself so seriously, its youtube. Yes, I know that was a run-on sentence but I just don't care.
-Aaron

I take the history of animation very seriously. Guess what, so do all of the people in the animation industry. From what Kevin Colmar says you are in Southern California after graduation. That says to me looking to break into film. As long as your history (sic) YouTube films are up you are just one Google away from unemployable in the animation industry and large and better portions of the film world. But do what you want, it is just YouTube, you don`t have to take your career seriously if you don`t want to, man.

I have dealt with a lot of students who take any criticism of their work as a personal attack. There are no places for people like this in the professional film making world. So maybe it is just as well that he leaves up these so called histories so that no one will take him seriously as a documentary filmmaker.