Tom Schroeder

Animator and free-range dabbler.

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Tom Schroeder

Animator and free-range dabbler.

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Animator and free-range dabbler.

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   After a few years of experimentation, I decided I was ready to make a narrative film.  This was my first film, animated to a musical track that I wrote.  I didn’t understand much about traditional cel animation at the time, so it’s all rendered as one layer on paper, drawn “straight-ahead” because the notion of “pose to pose” control was also foreign to me.  And I didn’t know anything about the solvent Benzene, so it’s all colored with terribly toxic markers, the consequences of which have yet to fully manifest.  There is a typical first film awkwardness to it, as I look at it now, but it’s made by someone who cared a lot; I couldn’t have worked any harder on it than I did.

  Read more about the shooting of the film here.

Harvest Town (1990)

Directed & Animated:  Tom Schroeder
Sound & Music:  Tom Schroeder
Sound Assistance/Voice:  Tom Hambleton

Ann Arbor Film Festival, 1991
Distributed by Picture Start, Chicago, IL
  on videotape “Best of the Fests”
Walker Art Center, 1991
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1991
Mpls/St. Paul Int’l Film Festival, 1991
Chicago Filmmakers, 2010


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