RESEARCH 1
Animation history The Silent Era 1899 - 1924
I will be reviewing the impact of Windsor MacCay's, Gertie the Dinosaur then it's impact on animation and how it has influenced animations today. Then I will compare them in my final blog.
Gertie the Dinosaur is a 1914 animated short film by American cartoonist and animator Winsor McCay. This was one of the first animated film shorts to feature a dinosaur.
McCay was one of those enormously important innovators who create whole new art forms without knowing at the time how influential this act was on future animation studios, as important as Walt Disney and Chuck Jones are in the history of animation as the ultimate masters of the form, McCay was the man who brought together many of the technical innovations that animators still use today, as well as being the first to create characters with whom audiences fell in love.
McCay conferred with the American Historical Society in 1912, and announced plans for "the presentation of pictures showing the great monsters that used to inhabit the earth".
He spoke of the "serious and educational work" that the animation process could enable. Rarebit Fiend episode in which a hunter unsuccessfully targets a dinosaur; the layout of the background to the latter bore a strong resemblance to what later appeared in Gertie.
This short film was featured before live audiences as an interactive part of his vaudeville act; the frisky, childlike Gertie did tricks at the command of her master. McCay's employerWilliam Randolph Hearst later added a live-action introductory sequence to the film for its theatrical release
Gertie the Dinosaur is a 1914 animated short film by American cartoonist and animator Winsor McCay. This was one of the first animated film shorts to feature a dinosaur.
McCay was one of those enormously important innovators who create whole new art forms without knowing at the time how influential this act was on future animation studios, as important as Walt Disney and Chuck Jones are in the history of animation as the ultimate masters of the form, McCay was the man who brought together many of the technical innovations that animators still use today, as well as being the first to create characters with whom audiences fell in love.
McCay conferred with the American Historical Society in 1912, and announced plans for "the presentation of pictures showing the great monsters that used to inhabit the earth".
He spoke of the "serious and educational work" that the animation process could enable. Rarebit Fiend episode in which a hunter unsuccessfully targets a dinosaur; the layout of the background to the latter bore a strong resemblance to what later appeared in Gertie.
This short film was featured before live audiences as an interactive part of his vaudeville act; the frisky, childlike Gertie did tricks at the command of her master. McCay's employerWilliam Randolph Hearst later added a live-action introductory sequence to the film for its theatrical release
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