SAG 235 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Grim Natwick, Droopy, Helen Kane
24 Oct 2016
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Sag 235 lecture 2 history of animation. Phenakistiscope: created in 1832 by joseph plateau, phenakistiscope is greek. To deceive or to cheat. : was the first widespread animation device that created a fluent illusion of motion. It was a circular piece of paper with frame-by-frame drawings around it that, when spun in a certain direction, played a simple animation. It is regarded as one of the first moving forms of media entertainment: this paved the way for the future of the motion film industry. In 1906, j. stuart blackton made the first animated film: he called it humorous phases of funny faces, he drew comical faces on a blackboard and filmed them. In 1911, winsor mccay produced an animated sequence using a comic strip he drew and colored by hand. In 1914, winsor mccay produced a cartoon called gertie, the trained dinosaur. It was featured in theaters and at multimedia events, where mccay would actually interact with an animated gertie.
