John Whitney, Sr. (April 8, 1917—September 22, 1995) was an American animator, composer and inventor, widely considered to be one of the 'fathers' of computer animation.

KNOWN FOR

Screening Room
1972
Birth of a Nation
1997
Home Movies 1971-81
1985
Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film
2011
Matrix
1971
Catalog
1961
Arabesque
1975
Permutations
1968
Moon Drum
1991
Blues Pattern
1956
Hot House
1952
Mozart Rondo
1953

FILMOGRAPHY

All
Movies
TV
Acting
8
Directing
20
Writing
1
Producing
1
2011
Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film
as Himself (archive footage)
1997
Birth of a Nation
as Self
1993
Abstract Cinema
as Himself
1992
A Personal Search For the Complementarity of Music and Visual Art
1985
Home Movies 1971-81
1972
Screening Room
as Himself
1968
Experiments in Motion Graphics
as Himself
The Film Art of John Whitney, Sr.
as Himself