Peter Foldes

Peter Foldes, actually Péter Mihály Foldes, ( born August 22, 1924 in Budapest, † March 29, 1977 in Paris) was a British animator and film director of Hungarian origin.

Life

Foldes was born in Budapest, the son of a couple doctors. He began in 1942 at the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts to study painting, but he did not finish because of the war. He went 1946 on Paris to London and studied at the Slade School of Fine Art Painting and at the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London art history. Foldes worked with John Halas and Batchelor Halas in the animation studios together before he created his own animated films in the 1950s. Works as Animated Genesis and On Closer Inspection originated here in collaboration with his wife Joan. Caused a stir in 1956, published short film A Short Vision, depicted the horrors of nuclear war.

Foldes went into the second half of the 1950s to Paris and initially turned to abstract painting. End of the 1960s he began to experiment with computer animation. He worked there together with the Office de Radio Télévision Française diffusion ( ORTF ) and the National Film Board of Canada under René Jodoin. For the NFB, he began to work on the short film Metadata, the first animated film created by a graphics tablet. This had been developed by the National Research Council of Canada. His next computer-animated short film for the NFB in 1974 hunger. The animated at an SEL 840A film received in 1975 as the first computer-animated film nominated for an Oscar in the category of Best Animated Short Film. In addition to painting and film work Foldes also worked as a cartoonist ( series Lucy, 1974) and advertising films.

Filmography

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