René Jodoin

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René Jodoin (born December 30, 1920 in Hull , Québec , † January 22, 2015 in Montreal ) was a Canadian film producer, director and animator . He founded the French-language animation division of the National Film Board of Canada .

Life

Jodoin studied at the École des beaux-arts in Montreal and was brought in 1943 by Norman McLaren as one of the first animators to the newly founded animation department of the National Film Board of Canada (NFB). Jodoin was significantly influenced by his mentor McLaren and saw himself as a socially responsible artist. Many of his films therefore also have didactic features.

Jodoin experimented with new forms of animation and created He Who Laughs Last, the first film animated with Cels to be produced by the NFB. After a fruitful collaboration with McLaren, Jodoin left the NFB in 1947 and settled in Toronto as a freelance animator. Only in 1954 did he return to the NFB. He became head of the animation program there, which among other things turned films for the Canadian Department of National Defense .

In 1966, Jodoin founded the NFB's French-language animation department, which produced numerous eminent animators, including Ishu Patel , Co Hoedeman , Caroline Leaf and Paul Driessen . Jodoin promoted innovative and experimental approaches and worked as a director of short films with an educational mandate. His works of the time include the geometry-based short animated films Dance Squared (1961), Notes on a Triangle (1966) and Spheres (1969), the latter a collaboration with Norman McLaren that began in 1948.

From 1969, Jodoin experimented with computer-aided animation and in 1971 produced the first computer-animated short film Metadata , which was directed by Peter Foldes and with the help of the National Research Council of Canada . Two films produced by Foldes were nominated for an Oscar in the Best Animated Short Film category: Hunger (1974) by Peter Foldes and Monsieur Pointu (1975) by André Leduc and Bernard Longpré . In 1977 Jodoin resigned from his post as director of the NFB's French-language animation department and retired in 1985. Even after 1985 he experimented in the field of computer animation. In 2001, Jodoin was awarded the Prix Albert-Tessier for his services to the Canadian animation film. He died on January 22, 2015 in Montreal at the age of 94.

Filmography (selection)

As a producer

  • 1964: The Canadian Shield: Saguenay Region
  • 1964: Among Fish
  • 1965: Glaciation
  • 1967: A Child in His Country
  • 1969: Spheres
  • 1969: Oddball
  • 1969: Notre jeunesse en auto-sport
  • 1969: Les fleurs de macadam
  • 1969: Le corbeau et le renard
  • 1969: Cerveau gelé
  • 1970: Points de suspension
  • 1970: La ville
  • 1970: Dimension soleils
  • 1971: Multiplication 1
  • 1971: Multiplication 2
  • 1971: Multiplication 3
  • 1972: Balablok
  • 1972: wind
  • 1972: Series 4
  • 1973: passage
  • 1973: Nébule
  • 1973: Horsing Around
  • 1973: Dans la vie
  • 1974: hunger
  • 1975: Horizon
  • 1976: Monsieur Pointu
  • 1977: Dernier envol
  • 1978: L'affaire Bronswik
  • 1978: Entre chiens et loup
  • 1980: One Way Street
  • 1984: Bioscope

As a director

  • 1944: Alouette
  • 1957: The Standard Range Approach
  • 1957: The Jet Beacon Let-Down
  • 1957: The Automatic Radio Compass: Part II
  • 1958: Remain VFR
  • 1959: An Introduction to Jet Engines
  • 1959: An Introduction to IFF
  • 1960: propagation
  • 1960: Julie, Part 3: Water Conditions
  • 1960: Directivity
  • 1960: Bandwidth
  • 1961: Dance Squared
  • 1966: Notes on a Triangle
  • 1948/1969: Spheres
  • 1984: Rectangle & Rectangles
  • 1984: A Matter of Form
  • 1999: Between Time and Place

As an animator

  • 1944: Let's All Sing Together: No. 1
  • 1944: Let's All Sing Together: No. 2
  • 1944: Alouette
  • 1945: Let's All Sing Together: No. 3
  • 1945: Let's All Sing Together: No. 6th
  • 1957: The Automatic Radio Compass: Part II
  • 1957: Aural Zero
  • 1958: Remain VFR
  • 1961: The Global Struggle for Food
  • 1961: Snow
  • 1961: People by the Billions
  • 1961: Man and His Resources
  • 1961: Danse carrée
  • 1961: Challenge to Mankind
  • 1961: Can the Earth Provide?
  • 1963: IFF Mark 10: Selective Identification Feature
  • 1966: Notes on a Triangle
  • 1969: Spheres
  • 1984: Rectangle & Rectangles

Awards

literature

  • Jodoin, René . In: Jeff Lenburg: Who's who in animated cartoons . Applause, New York 2006, pp. 161-163.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chris Robinson: When I Grow Up I Want To Be Rene Jodoin . awn.com, October 1, 2000.
  2. ↑ Marco de Blois: An Artist Working in the Interests of Society ( Memento of the original from November 15, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www3.nfb.ca archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . www3.nfb.ca, accessed January 1, 2014.
  3. ↑ Jodoin, René . In: Jeff Lenburg: Who's who in animated cartoons . Applause, New York 2006, p. 161.
  4. ↑ René Jodoin - Biography ( Memento of the original from June 6, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www3.nfb.ca archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . www3.nfb.ca, accessed January 1, 2014.
  5. ↑ Le cinéaste René Jodoin s'est éteint. Obituary on patwhite.com of January 26, 2015 (French, accessed January 29, 2015).
personal data
SURNAME Jodoin, René
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian film producer, director and animator
DATE OF BIRTH December 30, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Hull , Quebec
DATE OF DEATH January 22, 2015
Place of death Montreal , Quebec