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j the aoon freer prett wednesday sfipttmibar 17 1969 converted farm buildings house animated film studios by brian ward a nan indaatry b flourishing in northern natiauweya township under the piidance of two township councillor allan ackmaa who fat well known af one of carudaa best animator mr ackman started hii career before the second world war by taking commercial art course bi toronto at the alert of the war he joined the r c ajp and while doing hit ttbil orfnrzed art claaaea for the men in the service with him right after v e day day he joined the national film board animation department and toon came to know arid became a protege of norman mclaren who waa one of the firtl men to experiment with pop art ind new technique in films mr ackman worked on minuted nupf and technical diagram for the nfba many educational filma and gradually built up enough knowledge about the business to enable him togo out on lii own he mimed in l49 and he and hu wife moved from nfba headquarter in ottawa to toronto wrjere he went to woik foi an advertitlng agency rapid grip and bitten mr ackrrun organized the animation department there and it wai detigned to turn out film commercials although thit changed at eaily television productions demanded animated commercial mr acknun operated hit own atudio in toronto in i9s4 doing work for advertising agencies lie had a ataff of 14 technicians drawn front all ovet the world working on educational animation technical animation work public relations animation work and various fund drives such as producing anninuted commercials for the heart fund while working in the held of animation in toronto mr ackrrun also became involved in municipal politics he headed up various aniens commit and worked on the campaign staff for margaret campbell who successfully ran for tile portion of controller in toronto rive years ago lie moved out to northern nasugaweya to reestablish himself once more but this time it was to be away from the pressures of city life and highly competitive advertising he started animation productions limited on nasugaweyas tint line near 25 sideroid he and his wife hive converted a farm and outbuildings into studios and offices for their staff and mr acknun transformed what was the first step in producing an animated mm is to design and dntvv the flaunt in separate poses for each movement they make on the toman mr ackman h working on drawing of hone and rider where each picture it aqual to one ftafne on the film and 24 frame on the film la the equivalent to one second of picture on the cuff photo uqottamcs mh0j at these regular meeting monday night esquettng township council passed a resolution thit the council of the township of eaqueung respectfully request that the council of the county of helton consider the immediate instillation of automatic traffic ugh at the tnttreectsoa of ttmfelgx road and steele avenue once the pre lent instillation a very definitely dangerous the resolution was patted after t request for aorne action on the inlcrsecfjoa by hthoa county baud of education trustee unbans lawton passed a resolution agreeing to lend some snow fencing and posts to the georgetown agricultural society on the understanding that the society would be responsible for returning uiw instructed clerktreasurer deunar french to send copies of a letter to ratepayer in the mjton heights arei informing them that a meeting to discuss the water situation in thit area will be held september 23 at ltjny school at 8 pjn received an invitation for councillors to attend the officul opening of the good shepherd minor in ofingevtuc sunday september 28 at j pm received in invitation from the hilton county bond of education to tour schools m the county which provide specul education saturday september 27 received t letter from the hilton county board of education indicating their concern over the erosion they uy the credit river is causing near glen william school and suggesting that some type of retaining wall u needed received a letter from acton board of parks management and recreation committee criticizing the handling of the dredging operation in fairy lake acton and making recommendation to the credit valley conservation authority for the future success of similar project received a letter from pete pomeroy sports of georgetown requesting permission to sell hunting licenses in the township rescinded a previous resolution to take out membership in the central ontario regional development council because of a misunderstanding about membership fees decided to rescind a bylaw passed last year which limited the number of nonresident hunting licences sold in the township to 200 per year granted permission to alan francs a resident of the 5th line near umehouse to build a garage on hii property closer to the township road than the 68 feet that is normally required mr francis a gray coach line bus driver explained to council that having the garage closer to the road would make it much easier for him to get to work on time in the winter received a letter from the ontario assocution of mayors and reeves urging council to join the assocution at a membership fee of 60 a year decided that if committee of adjustment a undecided in the future about allowing persons to build houses on unmaintained township road they should send a representative to council and the two bodies would come to a deciuon between themselves sound for each film i currently being recorded in toronto or montreal but mr ackman hope to convert this sound recording studio for permanent use a a atudio in his home sound is put on the turn- tjtta it ha bun produced and the animator have to make tmttfrn characters up move with the sound on the screen stilt photo income tax franchise available h alt block it looking for a responsible individual capable el operating a volume tax business prior tax knowledge while helpful i net necessary the block franehl i compatible with matt other service oriented businesses we furnish training supplies advertising 33ttlscr canada a largett tax bfrvitt scif oxtr 280 0irre tooeoinbunohbo n ouelph to sirirjrjjsgxzr ir locl aooiteaa hind pitas sand me yeur brochure outlining the h a r bleck fran chls procrm i understand there is rte obllesuon en my part city teleehonene- peevinee clii and mail 1o0at pollock wad campklll mwwtwmai ol mom otadf ratmoelals m1mo cmgaavnmo once swamp land around his farm to usable recreation land complete with wellslocked pond what was the bam his been transformed into three level studio which is the main work area for mr ackman and hit stair the hiiemen is used for storage and tliere is also a large camera which is used to photograph frame by frame he handdrawn animated picluies the first floor is used is reception irei while the second floor which is convened lity loft is used is 1 studio for both staff and fiee lance artists who do the individual drawings which when combined make up an aniituled film i llm editing sound editing and film previewing is alto done on the second floor mr acknun is still very involved in the animation field which lie uys is a lifetime of study he explained this study involved watching the movements of aninute objects and finding out how they moved in order to reproduce them on paper and then on film lie said the future of animation is in education but criticired some of the methods used in schools today he explained schools have lots of equipment to train the students but they need itiore experience in the field to learn what its really like to get out in the real work world presently mr acknun it doing tome educating on ills own lie it trying to teach smaller businesses that it is not too expensive to advertise on television and tn piove hit point he and his company animation productions ltd have produced instant commercials tliere are 30second ipot commercials which have alieady been made and just require a dealers name to be put on them mr acknun says he it running into some opposition from television stations which already have their own slides which they believe are adequate for smaller advertisers he also has some very strong frame bv frame etch htnddrewn animated picture is photographed onto a piece of movie film on thit animation room stand at the top of the picture is the earners which takes e tingle picture of each drawing pieced as mr ackman is doing at the bottom of the cemere ttand the camera may be roomed to or out on a drawing to give a grtdutl impreuion of coming toward the viewer or leaving when the frmihed product appear on the screen staff photol vjews on television commercials which ire being produced today many tv commercials today re poorly designed insulting to the intelligence and in bad taste lie said he went on to point out it was a relatively small number of companies which spend all the money un these present ads seventy five cents of every ad dollar put into television is spent by just 100 companies allan acknun is a lucky nun lucky because he can woik in the topsyturvcy world of advertising and can still enjoy himself he can enjoy hit business and can enjoy ins surroundings which he helped to create with his own hands acton school dance tnroimm tap exercise modern jazz monday september 22nd at the anglican parish httl 8pm to 7 30pm introducing automobiles to light your fire t abrxfic0ur from bills or u tne gb trie gs 45 the sylak custom sport coupe ajotiobiles to really ligt your fire sweeping sporty lines glistening powerful looks and plenty of performance all these buicks simply drip with luxury carpeting front an drear rich lush fabrics and vinyls instrument panels a spaceship would be proud of altogether lots of features to ecite von perhaps tnoi h ou d prefer one of the full size buuks typified by the superb new electra 22b shown above it has an i nproved three speed automatic transmission a new cooling system that should never overheat a new radio antenna hidden in the windshield anew more powerful 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