ADAM KAMIEN

THE work of Australian animator Yoram Gross will be on display in a permanent exhibition at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image that is set to open on September 20.

Gross is responsible for bringing Dorothy Wall’s iconic children’s book character Blinky Bill to the small screen in The Adventures of Blinky Bill.

The series had 72 episodes and and several feature-length films. Gross also adapted children’s book Dot and the Kangaroo in 1977 and the film spawned a whopping eight sequels.

Originally from Israel, Gross moved to Australia in 1968 and set up Yoram Gross Films with his wife Sandra.

At the height of the studio’s success, Gross employed 200 production personnel including animators, technicians and artists.

Gross also produced a cartoon version of the much-loved TV show Skippy and oversaw two seasons of Flipper and Lopaka, an animated offshoot of the wildly successful TV show Flipper.

Gross’ work will be on display as part of ACMI’s permanent exhibition called Screen Worlds: The Story of Film, Television, and Digital Culture, which charts the rise of TV, computer games, the internet and other digital media. There are 220 screen-based displays and 30 hours of footage.

Screen Worlds: The Story of Film, Television, and Digital Culture opens on September 20 at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image in Melbourne. Enquiries: www.acmi.net.au