Oregon Cartoon Institute
It was founded in 2007 by Anne Elizabeth Richardson, dedicated to raising awareness of Oregon's rich animation and cartooning history.
[4] On October 15, 2016 OCI produced Underground USA, a one-day public history/arts education event focussing on one chapter of Oregon print cartooning history.
Six writers and artists who worked for Portland's underground press met to discuss the impact of that experience on their sensibilities and careers.
Filmmaker Bill Plympton, graphic novelist David Chelsea, journalist Norman Solomon, critic Richard Gehr, and historian Maurice Isserman all began at the underground newspaper the Portland Scribe and went on to comics friendly careers.
Patrick Rosenkranz, author of Rebel Visions: The Underground Comix Revolution 1963-1975, gave the keynote address.
Cartoons made by Oregonians (including Bill Plympton, Joanna Priestley, Rose Bond, Joan Gratz, and others) were screened in both 16mm and 35mm.
Presentations were made, in order of their appearance, by Gary Lacher and Steve Stone, authors of Theatres of Portland (Images of America),[10] on Portland Theater history; Ben Truwe, Southern Oregon Historical Society, on animation pioneer Pinto Colvig; Filmmaker/inventor Walt Dimick, on one of Portland's first full-time film entrepreneurs Norm Dimick;[11] Dennis Nyback, on three Oregon musicians, Lee Morse, George Olsen and Del Porter, who appeared in early sound films; Anne Richardson, on Oregon film makers James Blue [12] and James Ivory; Sheldon Renan[13] and Brooke Jacobson,[14] on the creation and early days of the Northwest Film Center; Filmmakers Richard Blakeslee Tom Chamberlin, on how the Teknifilm Lab nurtured the return of Portland independent film making, Research librarian Libby Burke, on Elmer Buehler, the man who was responsible for saving Woody Guthrie films the Bonneville Power Administration produced in the 1940s.
Presentations were made by, in order of their appearance, Larry Telles/Ranch Girl On A Rampage: Helen Gibson, Hollywood's first professional stuntwoman, performs in the 1913 Pendleton Round Up, Dennis Nyback/B.
F. Shearer & Portland's Film Row: Hollywood's distribution infrastructure on NW 19th, which supported an analog media empire, includes a perfectly miniaturized showcase theater designed by Seattle-based B. F. Shearer, Patrick Rosenkranz/Carl Barks: The Oregon comic book auteur who invented Uncle Scrooge McDuck and inspired Robert Crumb, Libby Burke, librarian & archivist/Citizen Kahn: Stephen B. Kahn at BPA, Harry Dawson/About his decades long collaboration with artist Bill Viola, Richard Blue/Gives an update on the international search for the lost negative of James Blue's THE OLIVE TREES OF JUSTICE (1962), and Mike Richardson/About the transition he made from publisher to producer with DR. GIGGLES in 1992.
[24] The reports featured Rose Bond, Jim Blashfield, Marcy Page of the National Film Board, Will Vinton, John Canemaker, Bill Plympton, and others.
The opening night of the festival was at the Mission Theater with an on stage conversation between James Ivory and Gus Van Sant.
[26][27] The films shown at Marylhurst included Smoke Signals with director Chris Eyre in person; Marked Woman featuring Mayo Methot; Talk Radio with writer Tad Savinar in person; The Lusty Men (set in and partially shot at the Pendleton Round-up); City Girl by F.W.
[29][30] In 2010, the OCI in partnership with Karl Lind Films produced a video featuring Patrick Rosenkranz and Charles Boucher, profiling the influence of two Oregon artists, Carl Barks and Basil Wolverton, on Robert Crumb.
[44] Earlier in the day at the Hollywood Theatre on May 16 OCI produced "Harry Smith In The Pacific Northwest"[45] a panel discussion with Gus Frederick,[46] Rich Wandschneider[47] and Michael Munk.
[49] It featured a lecture on Harry Smith's unpredictable relationship to the concept of 'truth" by Leo Daedulus,[50] a musical performance by Joe McMurrian, Jessica Beer brought the Sacred Harp Singers, Kaveh Askari's experimental documentary film "Harry Smith of the Guide: Field Recordings and a Location" (2013), had its Portland premiere, Dennis Nyback talked about the detective work which preceded his re-creation of Harry Smith's multiple projector approach to Heaven And Earth Magic, and Doug Stewart gave a lecture and demonstration of portable recording processes in the pre-magnetic tape era.
In the movie Dennis Nyback appears telling the story of taking Bill and Anne Richardson on a walking tour of Jacksonville on April 10, 2009 in search of Pinto Colvig's boyhood house.
[54] The Seattle screening of Heaven and Earth Magic featured a live score performed by Lori Goldston, Jessika Kenney and Suzie Kowzowa.
Anne Richardson, director of Oregon Cartoon Institute, presented a paper on Harry Smith: Salmon Nation Beatnik at the 2014 Society of Cinema & Media Studies conference.
