1st Edition

Wharfie Animator Harry Reade, The Sydney Waterfront, and the Cuban Revolution

By Max Bannah Copyright 2021
154 Pages
by CRC Press

154 Pages
by CRC Press

154 Pages
by CRC Press

This book examines the life of the Australian artist Harry Reade (1927–1998) and his largely overlooked contribution to animation. It constitutes a biography of Reade, tracing his life from his birth to his period of involvement with animation between 1956 and 1969. It explores the forces that shaped Reade and chronicles his experiences as a child, his early working life, the influence of... Read more
 Chapter 1 ◾ A Wobbly Road 1

Chapter 2 ◾ On the Waterfront 21

Chapter 3 ◾ Wharfie Animation 43

Chapter 4 ◾ Our Man in Havana 67

Chapter 5 ◾ Harry Reade’s Legacy 103

APPENDIX: HARRY READE’S FILMOGRAPHY, 109

Biography

Max Bannah lives on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast. Between 1976 and

2010 he worked in Brisbane as an animator producing television

commercials, short films, and cartoon graphics. He also lectured in Animation

History and Practice, and Drawing for Animation at the Queensland University of

Technology where, in 2007, he completed his Masters by Research thesis, A cause for

animation: Harry Reade and the Cuban Revolution.