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...1960s, Miró has also turned to huge bronze totems, cast in molds made from found objects, that brood like so many legendary rocs amid the gardens of the Maeght Foundation. One of his most recent sculptures is the massive marble Moonbird, who, in Miró's language, is meant to suggest not only moon and bird but also woman. Moonbird summons up half-forgotten racial memories of fertility-cult objects, altars, Astarte and menhirs. In so doing it suggests the deeper roots of Joan Miró's art. Through dream symbols and childish cartoons, through the very...
Harvard's first course in motion picture animation, has been as novel an experiment for its instructor, John Hubley, as it has been for the University. Hubley, who created Mr. McGoo and directed Moonbird, has been commuting to Cambridge every Monday from a busy studio in New York to give Visual Studies 146, his first experience at teaching. For the University his presence has opened up the professional world of the visual media that Harvard until recently has virtually ignored...
...years since he left Iron Mountain, Michigan, at the age of eighteen for art school in Los Angeles, Hubley has created an American folk hero (Mr. Mcgoo), supervised the development of another (Gerald McBoing-boing) and won two Academy Awards for cartoon shorts (Moonbird, 1957, and The Hole, 1962). In 1963 he completed a full length animated feature, Of Stars and Men, based on a book by the University astronomer, Professor Harlow Shapley. The recent opening of this feature in New York was also the occasion for a film festival in Hubley's honor...
...features he'd always dreamed about. Since then he has been able to achieve something of a financial balance between profit-making commercials and money-losing features. Film shorts seem inevitably to be financial failures, for the only people who come out ahead on them are the distributors. Even Moonbird, for instance, grossed at least as much as its production costs (about $25,000), but only a third of the gross wound up at Storyboard, Inc. As a full length feature, Of Stars and Men, will receive independent distribution, so that a greater share of the proceeds will wind...
Recent contracts from non-profit foundations, however, have opened up new possibilities for sponsors for films Hubley wants to make. In this sense, his two Academy Award winners were not total financial losses. The success of Moonbird led to a UNICEF contract for a film called Children of the Sun. And the man-hole discussion of nuclear war in The Hole earned Hubley the sponsorship of the Institute for International Order for two films on peace and disarmament...