History of Animation

Farmer Alfalfa's Revenge

(1916) Paul Terry at the Bray Studio

Bobby Bumps Puts A Beanery On The Bum

(1919) Earl Hurd at the Bray Studio. The "Bray Hurd Process.

Dizzy Dishes

(1930) Grim Natwick invents a odd little character for the Fleischers.

Boop Oop A Doop

(1932) Betty Boop's pre-code appeal.

Chinaman's Chance

(1933) Ub's odd output.

I love To Singa

(1936) Tex Avery at Warner Bros. Popular culture parodies become a thing.

The Milky Way

(1940, Ising) The first non-Disney cartoon to win an Academy Award.

Musical Moments from Chopin

(1946, Lundy) Oscar -nominated Andy Panda cartoon, co-starring Woody Woodpecker, with music by Frédéric Chopin. Dick Lundy directed all of Walter Lantz'classical music cartoons

Smoked Hams

(1947, Lundy) - 21st animated cartoon in the Woody Woodpecker series - pretty standard example except that Woody gets his comeuppance at the finale

A Cold Romance:

(1949, Davis) Mighty Mouse was an animated superhero mouse character created by the Terrytoons studio for 20th Century Fox. Mighty Mouse cartoons spoofed the cliffhanger serials of silent films as well as the classic operettas that were popular at the time.

Magical Maestro:

(1952, Avery) A classic Tex Avery "one-off". Regarding the racial stereotypes: throughout the 1970s and 1980s the cartoon was often locally censored, depending on policy at the particular television station and the area where the film was being broadcast..

A Wild Hare:

(Avery,1940) The first Bugs Bunny cartoon with both the rabbit character and the standard Bugs-Elmer conflict fully developed.

Porky In Wackyland

(Clampett,1938) Classic, surrealistic Wackyland sequence was adapted and reused for many later films.

A Corny Concerto

(Clampett,1943) A parody of Disney's 1940 feature Fantasia.

I Haven't Got A Hat

(Freleng,1935) Used Technicolor's two-strip process (red and green) instead of the three-strip process. This was the introduction of Porky Pig.

You Ought To Be In Pictures

(Freleng,1940) Combined live-action and animation with studio personnel and classic cartoon characters

Porky's Hare Hunt:

(Hardaway,1938) Precursor to the Bugs Bunny character, pitted against Porky Pig as the hunter.

It's Hummer Time

(McKimson,1950) "Not Happy Birthday!" A sadomasochistic animated relationship, helmed by the "forgotten" Warner Bros. Director, Robert McKimson.

Georges Méliés

- Father of special effects - A Trip to the Moon - Film used 'jump cut' effects to make actors and objects 'magically' disappear and reappear

Peace On Earth: (1939, Harman)

-Arguably the first major studio cartoon about a serious subject -1939: year of great films as well as the beginning of WWII -Harman thought this film would win a Nobel Prize (it didn't) -started off cutesy and then transitioned to war scenes

Alice's Mysterious Mystery (1926)

-Disney's first success -Pete the bear eventually became peg-legged Pete -Real little girl in animated world, they would animate her when they couldn't get the film transition right -Included people who resembled the kkk -Included a death chamber and euthanized a dog, bc sausage factory

Ozzie of the Mounted (1928)

-Disney's second success is also a major setback -Oswald the Lucky Rabbit: character that Walt Disney designed for Universal Studios' animation department -After Universal did not pay him enough, he left on a train back to LA, and on that train, he allegedly came up with Micky Mouse -He also decided that he would never work for a company in which he didn't own the intellectual property of the characters

To Spring (1936)

-MGM works to rival Disney -Huge budget with technicolor and detailed scenes -They did not have a good character though -They later invented Tom and Jerry

Disney's Multiplane and Bambi (1942)

-Multiplane camera explanation and sequence example -Incorporated layers into animation -Had multiple planes where you would move several layers · About 20 feet tall · Made by Disney to create 3D in films --BAMBI · Utilized the multiplane camera, had one of the longest shots in the opening · Did not use multiplane for every scene, but more for the scenic shots · Original book quite different from Disney film

Dinner Time (1928)

-Paul Terry gets a jump on Disney -Farmer alfalfa -Released sound cartoon with him in it -Not an amazing cartoon but it was one of the first sound cartoons which made it impressive -Disney saw the film and called it "terrible" and that it had a "racket"

The Band Concert (1935)

-Spectacular Mickey outing, shared with a duck -introduction of Daffy Duck

Astronomeous (1928)

-Sullivan's sound compromise -First Felix the Cat film with sound incorporated turns into a nail

My Old Kentucky Home (1924-1926)

-The Fleischers and the Lee Deforest Phonophone -Era where sound began to incorporate into works -Bouncing ball films: lyrics and song would appear on screen and ball would bounce along lyrics for proper timing

The Old Mill (1937)

-The multiplane "proof of concept." -Won an Oscar -Proof that the multiplane could be used for future films -Multiplane complicated and expensive

Mickey's Follies

-Ub Iwerks and Walt Disney, 1929

Fiddlesticks (1930)

-Ub Iwerks leaves Disney for greener pastures -Separated from Walt Disney because he felt like he was being taken for granted + he was getting offers from other places -Considered the best animator there was at the time to the point where people assumed he was carrying Disney animation · First color cartoon · Stars Flip the Frog · Mickey Mouse lookalike featured, inanimate objects had personalities

Alexander Shiryaev

-a tribute to animation and dance. The first animated films?

The Lost World (1925)

-advancing stop motion -Stop motion, Willis O'Brien animated the dinosaurs in this film -Most realistic dinosaurs of their time

Fleischer Rotoscope Test (c.1915)

-animating reality? -Rotoscope: actor would act out scene, then it would be projected and animator could trace the actor -The original motion capture

Mechanical Monsters (1941, Fleischer)

-is the second of the seventeen groundbreaking Superman shorts -Lois: first female in animation with some kind of personality besides damsel in distress

How Cartoons are Made (1919)

-tongue-in-cheek look inside the Bray animation studio -Used pegs to animate and pan backgrounds -There were no storyboards; worked off a script -Cartoons didn't have particular length, generally less than 10 minutes but no guidelines to length -Hid the concept of cells by just showing strips of paper instead so that people wouldn't copy their animation -Women would not work directly in the studio but they would paint and trace drawings -Camera above drawings, lights go on the side -Interference from big boss was a common joke

Colonel Heeza Liar At The Bat

Bray, 1915

Flowers And Trees

Burt Gillett (1932), animated short for Disney, first film to use full color, three-strip Technicolor

Rabbit Seasoning

Chuck Jones (Warner Bros), 1952

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs:

Disney's first fully animated feature film

Steamboat Willie (1928)

Disney's first major triumph and move to industry leader.

Émile Cohl

Fantasmagorie

Fleischer's Tabletop Rig

Fleischer's remarkable attempt at depth.

Koko's Earth Control (1927)

Fleischers become a force

High Diving Hare

Freleng, 1949 - considered perhaps the best of all Bugs and Yosemite Sam confrontations

Winsor McCay

Gertie the Dinosaur

James Stuart Blackton

Humorous Phases of Funny Faces

Duck Amuck

Jones,1953) A pastiche on the animation process and a film that relied on the fact thatanimation can create characters with a recognizable personality, independent of theirappearance, environment, or voice

Sinkin' In The Bathtub

Leon Schlesinger opens a Warner Bros. Cartoon studio.

Tantalizing Fly

Max Fleischer 1919

Three Little Pigs (1933)

More Disney success and social commentary.

Feline Follies

Otto Messmer and Pat Sullivan, 1919

Eadweard Muybridge

The Horse in Motion

Skeleton Dance

The first Silly Symphony

Charlotte "Lotte" Reiniger

The foremost pioneer of silhouette animation. Best known for directing andanimating The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926), the oldest surviving feature-length animated film,preceding Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) by over ten years

A Haunting We Will Go:

The third Casper the Ghost cartoon and the last short before the character was green lit in a series of 52 regular theatrical shorts.

Kitty Foiled:

William Hanna and Joe Barbera (MGM), 1948

Walter Lantz

Woody Woodpecker

George Pal

a Hungarian animator and film producer, developing a form of replacement stop-motion animation resulting in the Puppetoons series of films.

Carl Stalling

a composer and arranger for music in animated films, most known for the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies shorts produced by Warner Bros., but he also worked with Disney. His conversations with Disney led to the first Silly Symphonies cartoons.

Leon Schlesinger

a film producer, founding Leon Schlesinger Studios, which later became the Warner Bros. Cartoon Studio.

Friz Freleng

animator, director and famous for his work on Warner Bros. Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies shorts. Freleng directed more cartoons than any other director in the studio (total of 266).

William "Bill" Hanna

animator, director and producer whose career began with Warner Bros, then MGM, partnering with Joe Barbera for the next 60 years, developing groundbreaking cartoons for television.

Władysław Starewicz

bug stop motion

Ub Iwerks

co-created Oswald the Lucky Rabbit and Mickey Mouse with Walt Disney. Iwerks was responsible for the distinctive style of the earliest Disney animated cartoons. Iwerks opened his own studio in 1930.

Quirino Cristiani

created the first feature length animated film El Apóstol (1917). Then, in 1931, another breakthrough, Peludópolis, the first animated feature with sound.

Frederick Bean "Tex" Avery

did his most significant work for the Warner Bros. and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios, developing not only a recognizable, idiosyncratic style but also many of the studios' most influential characters.

Alexander Ptushko

directed one of the world's first full-length animated features, The New Gulliver (1935) a stop motion/live action feature, also pre-dating Disney's Snow White by two years.

What's Opera, Doc?

greatest animation

One Froggy Evening

he cartoon has no spoken dialogue, in fact no vocals exceptsinging by the Frog, relying instead on pantomime, fascial reactions and other visuals, timing, soundeffects and, especially, music

Pinocchio

oday is considered one of the pantheon of animated films, but was a box-office failureduring its first-run.

Duck Dodgers in the 24½ Century

of popular comic book character Buck Rodgers

Myron "Grim" Natwick

was one of the few classically trained artists working in the earliest days of animation. He is best known for drawing the Fleischer Studio's character, Betty Boop, and was a lead animator on Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.

Burt Gillette

was one of the main directors at the Disney studios, with two Academy Award winners, Flowers and Trees and The Three Little Pigs, to his credit.