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An evening celebrating the work of one of the most creative and entertaining animators of all time, Will Vinton. The winner of an Academy Award, numerous television Emmys, and international animation awards numbering in the hundreds, Vinton used Claymation, a term he trademarked, to great effect in his early career and later bringing to life iconic advertising characters the California Raisins and M&Ms. Vinton began experimenting with clay animation in college and his breakthrough short Closed Mondays (1974) garnered him international acclaim as well as an Academy Award. Vinton explains his process – in his typically clever and metamorphic way – in Claymation (1978). When a band of long-haired hippies begin to rock out in the middle of nature, the whole mountain (flora and fauna alike) gets in the groove in Mountain Music (1975). The terrible lizards have never been more entertaining than in the pre-hysterical Dinosaur! (1987) and Vinton turns Washington Irving's Rip Van Winkle (1978) into a psychedelic freak out! Plus more claymation madness including Eliot Noyes Jr.'s Clay or the Origin of Species (1964) and original 1957 Gumby short In the Dough.