| last name: | Whitney Sr. |
| first name: | John |
| birthday: | April 8, 1917 |
| birth-place: | Pasadena, California (USA) |
| death date: | September 22, 1995 |
| died in: | Los Angeles (USA) |
John Whitney, Sr. was an U.S.American animation film maker, composer and inventor, popularly recognised as one of the fathers of computer animation.
From his first work with 8 mm film of a solar eclipse recorded with a home-made telescope, to the early innovative experiments with computer graphic systems, John Whitney Sr. has developed and deployed technology for artistic usage.
He was assisted… [read more]| 1937-38 | Spent a year in Paris, studying twelve-tone composition under Rene Leibowitz. |
| 1939 | Returned to America and began to collaborate with his brother James on a series of abstract films. |
| 1940-45 | Their work, ‘Five Film Exercises’ was awarded the first prize at the First International Experimental Film Competition in Belgium in 1949. |
| 1948 | Awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. |
| 1950’s |
