The History of Animation

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Web Name: The History of Animation

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Explore the early beginnings of animation and man's drive towards motion graphics as part of visual communication.• Thaumatropes, praxinoscopes, Zoetropes and other early optical devices which demonstrate and expand upon the principle of Persistance Of Vision.• The Camera Obscura and the discovery of photography by Joesph Niepce• The photographic motion studies by Eadward Muybridge. Sequenctial photography and the first projected "moving pictures".• Emil Reynaud and his first theatre of projected animated drawings.• The Edison Laboratory and utilization of celluoid film through the Kinetoscope.• Fred Ott's Sneeze, the first film experiment at the Edison Labs.• The Lumiere Brothers and their portable motion picture camera/projector.• Mutoscopes and the flip book.• The advent of the newspaper comic strip.The turn of the century brings a new and amazing artform and newspaper cartoon artists take advantage of it's potential and it's art. • J. Stuart Blackton and the Vaudville "Chalk-Talk" curcuit.• The Enchanted Drawing and Humorous Phases of Funny Faces.• The first clay animation film, Fun In A Bakery Shop by Edwin S. Porter.• The life and times of innovator Emil Cohl.• Fantasmagorie, Un Drame Chex Les Fantoches, and Les Joyeaux Microbes.• Cohl's innovative and technique intensive Hasher's Delerium.• Stop-action film matures with The Automatic Moving Company and Bewitched Matches.• The genius and skill of William McCay.• Little Nemo in Slumberland, America's first animation.• The unknown Story of a Mosquito and the popular aclaim of Gertie The Dinosaur.• The J.R. Bray Studios and the beginnings of technical innovations in the industry.• Earl Hurd, cell animation and Bobby Bumps Starts a Lodge.• The Raoul Barrie Studio and the Slash System.• The Hearst Studio and the cartoon strip as animation short. Krazy Kat Goes A-Wooing and The Katzenjammer Kids - Policy and Pie.• Keeping Up With The Joneses and AWOL by Bowers, More.• Max and Dave Fleischer and the invention of Rotoscoping. Ko-Ko The Clown - Tantalizing Fly.• Pat Sullivan and Otto Messmer develop characters with personality. Felix The Cat - Feline Follies.• Out of the Inkwell Films. Singalongs and "Follow the Bouncing Ball."• Animation studio workflow and the invention of "tweening".• Paul Terry and Terrytoons.• Combining live-action with animation: Alice's Egg Factory by Walt Disney.Also called "The Disney Era" -- Quantum leaps in artform, in concept and in technology.• Disney animation innovations-- Gravity, Squash and Stretch, Secondary Actions, Overlapping Action, Follow-through, more.• Donald Duck, The Band Concert.• Gambling on Snow White, the first animated feature film.• The Multi-plane camera, Pinnoccio, the spectacular failure of Fantasia.Living in the Shadow of Disney... Rubber-Hose animation and Mickey's competition.• The Helen Kane Lawsuit; Betty Boop's Minnie the Moocher and rotoscoping Cab Calloway.• Popeye the Sailer Man, post-synch sound.• The Fleischer failures, the swan song of Superman; the breakup of Disney's biggest competitor.• Ub Iwerks and Flip the Frog. Balloon Land.• The Walter Lantz studios. Andy Panda and Woody Woodpecker. Pantry Panic.• Van Bueran Studios; Terrytoons, Charles Mintz.Living in the Shadow of Disney... Rubber-Hose animation and Mickey's competition.• The characters of training films. Hook, Trigger Joe and Private SNAFU. Booby Traps and Spies.• Funny propaganda: Der Fueher's Face; grim propaganda: Education For Death.• Disney's wartime features.• The Jones-Noble collaborations. Duck Dodgers in the 24th and a Half Century, What's Opera Doc?• Daffy Duck's Book of Job, Duck Amuck.• MGM's Tex Avery and Hanna-Barbara.• Paul Terry and Mighty Mouse.• UPA breaks the rules. Gerald McBoing-Boing.• Disney's Silver Age. Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan, and Lady and the Tramp.• A historical experiment: Sleeping Beauty.• Things get worse as limited animation becomes more limited. The Runaway Production System.• Bound and gagged: The National Coalition on Television Violence.Bright spots in the darkness, the animated special. Television animated commercials.• Animation in television commercials. The Flintstones smoke cigarrettes. Mr. Magoo drinks beer.• Computer animation appears.• MTV and Ted Turner, new markets for old and new.• The repurposing of Disney films for TV.*Content is Subject to change. This is a constantly evolving class.

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