EXPO AICHI 2005
Yamamura Animation Museum

05.04.05
(c)Yamamura Animation

Duration March 25 through September 25, 2005 185days
Map: Wanpaku Treasure Island” 2F at ’Interactive Fun Zone’” in AICHI EXPO Nagakute Area


In viewing the cave paintings of primitive times, you get a sense of the energetic movement of the horses, cows, and deer. Many legs are drawn on one body, perhaps to express its running, which is recognized as the roots of animation. Through the paintings, you will feel the bliss of primitive men finding "a joy in capturing moving images", and "a wonder of replaying the moving images" dramatized by the flickering torchlight.
"Yamamura Animation Museum" starts from that cave art, and it is full of the joy and wonder of creating animation. The museum contains an exhibition of world animation history replicated by Koji Yamamura using full of his imagination, and numerous animation drawings, models, and artworks on display that show his history as a creator of animation, and there is also a corner in which to experience moving images with various types of equipment.
Now, please enjoy the exhibition, enjoy the moving pictures, and let your curiosity and imagination discover the joy of Yamamura Animation.

Perspective of Yamamura Animation
The Perspective of Yamamura Animation is showing the history of the birth of Animation and Yamamura Animation. It depicts the history from the cave paintings of primitive times to the birth of Yamamura Animation by Koji Yamamura’s interpretation and Spiino and Stripes explain the important points with the joyful. How have people expressed Human Imagination and "Movement"? This exhibition includes the history of Painting and film which are deeply related with the history of Animation.
After you see the birth of Animated film, you will go to the special gallery which covers all the attractions of Koji Yamamura's film.
It shows many elements of Yamamura's film, such as materials, colors, shapes, and actions, with displays of the original drawings, the paintings on plastic sheets, the relieves and so on. You will find out many facts; even if you see the image for one second, it was made by many pictures with dexterous expressions and shows the unique perspective in the combination of flat and 3D materials. The gallery is full of the secrets of Yamamura's film.
Hands-on Minds-on Animation
This part gives you an opportunity to feel the attraction of Animation to your heart by touching and watching. Many of these toys and equipments already existed before the invention of film and are reproductions from the design of Yamamura. You can move them and see motion pictures.
The Thaumatrope is a toy adapted from the experimental machine for producing afterimage. Spinning the disk, you see the pictures on the front and back as only one image. ”Kinora”, which shows riffled moving images by turning the handle, and “Phénakistiscope”, which shows the motion picture of 12 mirrored pictures on a disk through the slits, are related to “Intermittent Movement” which is used in the film projector of today.
As for the other attractions, there is the “Mini monitor in the Cave”; you can watch the digest film of Yamamura Animation in the cave with the smallest monitor (1.8inch, but it is not authorized by the committee of Expo) in the Expo and “Karo-Piyo photo stage“; you can be “Karo and Piyobupt”. And you can meet full-sized “Karo”, “Piyobupt”, “Pacusi” and “Mushi-kun” too!



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Planning cooperator; Kit Group-Chimako Maeda, Yukio Hiruma, Kazuaki Yufuku
”Kit Group” is a nonprofit organization by the members who specialize in motion picture and plastic art. They aim to explore the common expression in motion picture and plastic art and enlighten the possibilities from the educational point of view.
This is especially true of the cooperated organization of exhibition planning for Yamamura Animation; one of the main activities to follow the aims of “Kit Group” is promoting the attraction of the animated film by Koji Yamamura to a wide range of people, from children to adult. They planned and made the “Yamamura Animation – the pictorial book for children + the art library” exhibition in Seto-city, summer 2003 and in Tokyo, winter 2003-2004.
Å@They have also been developing the kits for the exhibitions with which people can participate and have also been holding workshops which combine the expression of motion picture and plastic art.


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