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ANIMATION HISTORY BY: JASMYN VINES DISNEY DID NOT CREATE

When people think of animation they automatically think of Disney, and how could they not. Mostly anyone you talk to will say that Disney was the first or was the first animator, when that is not true. Think of like the invention of the cell phone. Apple is the top dog when comes to sell inventing new ways to create cell phones, but just because they are the top selling company of cell phones does not mean that they invented it. In this power point we will travel back in time to where animation began. IT ALL STARTED IN 1906

• Thanks to Disney many people would say that animation would have guessed that the first animated was and the Seven Dwarfs, but the first animated film was actually released in 1906 and created by J. Stuart Blackton a newspaper cartoonist. It was called ”Humurous Phases of Funny Faces” and it was animated by using stop motion animation. • Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7M5So1WFNzo WINSOR MCCAY

• Mccay was a very popular news paper cartoonist in the early 1900s. His most popular and animation was Little Nemo in Slumberland. You could say that McCay really started what the animation industry would become later in the future. His most popular animation were • Little Nemo in Slumberland (1911) • (1914) • The Sinking of the Lusitania (1918)

• Before there was another animated super star who a little more mischievous. He was known as Felix the Cat and is considered as the animated star of his time. BEFORE DISNEY THERE WAS FLEISCHER

• When people think of and animated features the automatically believe that it’s meant for kids, and that couldn’t any farther from the truth. When animation first started getting popular it was mainy targeted towards adults. And no animation studio back then proved this more than the Inkwell Studios. This studio would make technology that would revolutionize animation specifically invention the rotoscope which captures reall ife movements so the animator can copy it. They also created animation series that had more adult themes. Think of them as the opposite of Disney. • (1919) • Bimbo (1929-1932) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7T7fOXxMEk • (1932-1939) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaYeG-Lu5-c THE BEGINNING OF DISNEY

• Disney Studios was founded in 1923 by Walt Disney. The first major animation made there was the famous “Steam Boat Willy” (1928) which stared Disney Mascot Mickey Mouse. It is also the first animation to have sound. • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxf-UHuGobI THE GOLDEN AGE

• The Golden Age of animation is the time where animation popularity begins to growing. This where Disney, Warner Bros, and become very popular. DISNEY’S SILLY SYMPHONIES

• In the golden age of animation in the 1930s Disney produced multiple short known as “Silly symphonies”. The were used different filming techniques including and colored . The first was “The Skeleton Dance”. Other symphnies were: • Trees and Flowers (1931) • The Three Little Pigs (1932) • (1937) • The Ugly Duckling (1939) • The Skeleton Dance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOGhAV-84iI IT’S SPELLED TUNES NOT TOONS

• The same year that Disney Studios founded Warner Bros Studio was also founded by four brothers Samuel, Harry, Albert, and Jack Warner. This is where Looney Tunes came from and the famous cartoons characters like Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, and Porky Pig (created by Texas Avery) originated from . They were Looney Tunes because they had music in them, but that concept was later moved to their “Merrie Melodies” MGM’S TOM AND JERRY 1940-50

• MGM is the creator of the everyone's favorite cat and mouse Tom and Jerry. With over One hundreds cartoons staring these two characters Hanna Barbara (the creator of Tom and Jerry) was able to stop Disney from winning all the Oscars. It may not have won as many of Disney, but they came to a close second. Tom and Jerry tried to make a come back in the 70s but wasn’t very sucessful. DISNEY IN THE GOLDEN AGE (1950)

• After Disney first featured film ”Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” Disney would come out with other successful films during the golden age including: • (1950) • Alice in Wonderland (1951) • Peter Pan (1953) • Lady and the Tramp (1955) • Sleeping Beauty (1959) TELEVISED ANIMATION

• The 1960s are what marked the beginning of televised animation series. These series include: • (1960) • Top Cat (1961) • Yogi Bear (1961) • The Jetsons (1962) • Scooby-Doo Where are you?! (1969) CGI ANIMATION MAY HAVE STARTED EARLIER THAN YOU THINK

• Now when you think of CGI animation your mind will probably wonder to the beloved Studios, but did you know that Pixar didn’t start with their 1995 film but actually with their 1984 short ”The Adventure of Andre and Wally B.” Before Pixar became what it is today they started out making CGI animated short in fact the mascot of Pixar Luxo (the lamp in the beginning of ever Pixar film) came from the Luxo Jr. WHERE IS ANIMATION HEADED?

• Animation has come a long way since it first started. From using stop motion to animate to using celluloid to on paper animation has always been a lot work. It went from being just in theaters to showing on TV animation is made for people of all ages to enjoy. And with the invention of CGI animation it seem that animation couldn’t possibly progress any further from what it is today, but animation has transformed so much over the years who know where else it will advance to. Only time will tell. WORK CITED

• “Animated Films.” An award-Winning, unique resource of film reference material for film buffs and others, with reviews of classic American-Hollywood films, Academy Awards history, film posters., www.filmsite.org/animatedfilms5.html. • “Early waysof showingmotion.” , history-of-animation.webflow.io/. • Maltin, Leonard. Of mice and magic: a history of American animated cartoons. McGraw-Hill, 1980.