John Whitney was an American animator famous for being 'one of the fathers of computer animation', in 1949 John and his brother, James, were given an award for sound in their collaborative experiment; Five Film Exercises (1940-45, see link above). They were given the award at the First International Experimental Film Competition in Belgium, shortly after Whitney's American Grant; Guggenheim Fellowship awarded to those 'who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts' - said by John Simon Guggenheim himself. John Whitney later went into collaboration with graphic designer Saul Bass and produced the animated title sequence for 1958 film Vertigo, by Alfred Hitchcock. Part of the storyline involves a policeman who has an irrational fear of heights; acrophobia and another sequence pictures a woman who acts in a peculiar way; these two statements alone can be pinpointed visually as major aspects of the film cover.
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