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
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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.
