Midterm-Animations (Images)
Where's Mama? (Wei & Jajun, 1960). Chinese animation from the Shanghai Animation Film Studio. Uses ink brush style.
(reminiscent of this artist)
Steamboat Willie (Walt Disney, 1928). First appearance of Mickey Mouse, a pop culture/marketing icon. First widely distributed animation with synchronized sound.
(same animation)
What's Opera, Doc? (Chuck Jones, 1957). Parody of opera. One of Jone's most famous cartoons.
(same animation)
Woos Whoopee (Otto Messmer, 1928). Felix the Cat was the first major commercialized cartoon character.
(same animation)
The Tale of The White Serpent (Okabe, 1958). Uses cels and full animation techniques. Sets off the country of Japan as a major producer of animated films.
(same animator)
The New Spirit (Jackson & Sharpsteen, 1942). American WWII Propaganda film, promoting paying your taxes to help the war effort.
(same character)
Circles (Oskar Fischinger, 1933). Abstract animation visually accompanies musical score. Used as advertisement.
(same director)
Ersatz (Vukotic, 1961). First non-US animation to win the Oscar for Cartoon: Short Subject. USSR Zagreb school of animation.
(same film)
King Kong (Cooper & Schoedsack, 1933). RKO Pictures film. Huge influence on future stop motion animation in film.
(same film)
Neighbors (Norman McLaren, 1952). Uses Pixelation (stop motion with live actors). Has a synthetic soundtrack. Canadian film.
(same film)
Snow White (Fleischer, 1933). Most Famous Betty Boop Film. Uses Rotoscope and constant gags.
(same film)
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Walt Disney, 1937). Disney's first feature length film, hugely successful. First popular use of technicolor in film/animation. Utilizes the new multi-plane camera.
(same film)
The Rose of Baghdad (Domenighini, 1949). 1st Italian animated feature film. Rival response to Snow White.
(same film)
The Snow Queen (Atamanov, 1957). Film from Soviet government run studio Soyuzmultfilm.
(same film)
The Three Caballeros (Ferguson, 1944). Made in part of the Good Neighbor Policy to keep South America a US Ally during WWII.
(same film)