Part of a program to help teacher and student understand how film animation works, this illustrated handbook describes various kinds of animation and ways to produce such films. Preceding discussions of animation techniques is a brief section on filmmaking basics. Animation techniques described include animation without film, handmade films, puppet doll animation, object animation, cut-out animation, cel animation, kinestasis, and pixillation and motion distortion. EM 011 291, the instructor's manual, is a related document. (SH)