Today people are celebrating the 60th anniversary of Rosa Parks’ civil disobedience.
Long ago, in 1991, while working at the Capital Children’s Museum, a four year old girl came to our Animation Lab with her mother and wanted to make a cartoon. Not an easy task for adults, but this girl was on a mission and got to work. She recorded a soundtrack, created artwork, and directed the animation for “The Rosa Parks Story.”
Years later, I “inherited” most of the animation done at the museum and went about digitizing and archiving it all. The result is that I can show you this short piece by Sheeba Ema-Nuru.
https://archive.org/details/Ema-Nuru_StoryOfRosaParks_1991_U055
Inspirational
Brilliant, Oscar worthy…In all seriousness, unstoppable, untoppable, pure cinema.
“Rosa Parks sat in the front…”
Pure
It’s one of my all time favorites.
follow-up?
Chris, have you tried to contact the author/producer? A quick search yields info that could lead to her quite easily, I think. Perhaps she would like a copy of her work, and perhaps she could be featured at one of Brattleboro’s film events? It looks like she is still active in trying to work for a positive society.
Yes!
I have been in touch with her and many of the other students as I archived their work. Only a few couldn’t be found. (David Cook, Space Dog, where are you?)
Amazing how many have become successful. (I hope they remember me in my old age… : ) )
Check around the Internet Archive for more work by students in our animation program.