Post on 05-Jan-2016
HISTORY OF AMERICAN ANIMATION
Gertie the Dinosaur, 1914, Winsor McKay Steamboat Willie, 1929, Walt Disney
Famous Firsts
Scene from Flowers and Trees, 1932, Walt Disney Studios
Fleisher Studios, 1930’s and ’40’s
Snow White, 1937, Walt Disney Studios. Snow White was thefirst feature length animated feature.
Gulliver’s Travels, 1938, Fleisher Studios
Warner Brothers Studios, 1930’s
MGM Studios, 1940’s and 50’s
Scene from Anchors Aweigh,
Hanna-Barbera Productions
The Flintstones, the first half-hour, primetime sitcom
Animated Features in the Theaters
Scene from Raplh Bakshi’s The Lord of the Rings feature film
Prime Time Animated Specials
Saturday Morning Cartoonsand the 1980’s
Japanese Anime
Animation and MTV
Scenes from “Take On Me” music video by A-Ha
Disney Studios in the 1980’s
The Dawn of Computer Animation
Scene from Disney’s Beauty and Beast
A Counter Point to Disney
Steven Speilberg and Don Bluth produced animated Features An American Tale and The Land Before Time.
Animation and the 90’s
Computer Generated Animation
Animation design from Jurassic Park.
Scene from Toy Story (1995) by Disney/Pixar. The first completely Computer generated feature film.