Animation 1930s to 1970s

Snow White and the seven dwarfs

Snow white was the first animation with colour and sound it tock nearly 4 years to make and the fist time it was shown to the public was 1937 and was produced by Walt Disney  and released by RKO Radio Pictures. In the box office snow white has made over $416 million.  

Norman McLaren 

Norman McLaren was a Scottish-born British animator, director and producer.McLaren is remembered for his experiments with image and sound as he developed a number of groundbreaking techniques. He is most famous for his show Neighbours in 1952 

The Flintstones

The Flintstones were the modern Stone Age family. Residing in Bedrock, Fred Flintstone worked an unsatisfying quarry job, but returned home to lovely wife Wilma and eventually daughter Pebbles. The Flintstones was heavily inspired by The Honeymooners. The first episode came out in September 1960 and since then there has been re-makes one in 1994 called The Flintstones and another one in 2000 called The Flintstones viva rock Vegas.  

Top Cat

The animated series that follows the many get-rich-quick schemes of a band of streetwise felines. Top Cat, a clever hustler whose close friends get to call him TC, leads his faithful followers in all sort's of scams, gambling activities and harebrained stunts, all in the pursuit of a fast dollar. The first episode came out in September 1961. 

Pioneers of early animation

Georges Melies 

George Melies was a french filmmaker who was famous for creating many technical and narrative development in the early age of cinema. George Melies was a professional magician before until he seen the first "moving pictures" in 1895. Little over a year later, Melies was filming and projecting his own creations one of these creations were a trip to the moon 

Winsor mcCay  

 Winsor McCay was an American cartoonist and animator. He is best known for the comic strip Little Nemo and the animated film Gertie the Dinosaur. He did Little Nemo in 1911 and Gertie the Dinosaur in September 1914 it was also the earliest animated film to feature a dinosaur.

Lotte Reiniger 

Lotte Reiniger is a german film director and pioneer of silhouette animation, she has an award from German Film Award the award was for an Honorary Award witch was resived in 1972 she was also nominated for best foreign film in 1932 with Silhouetten but did not win. 

Steamboat willie 

Steamboat willie is a 1928 American animated short film directed by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks it was the first animation to have sound and was very popular in different countries because everyone could understand what the characters were saying. 

Old fashion animation

Zoetrope 

A zoetrope is an old animation machine. A zoetrope is a metal drum with a sequence of image all different but only a little bit when spun it makes the images look like they are moving. the zoetrope was invented in 1834 by  British mathematician William George Horne.

Thaumatrope

A thaumatrope is a toy that was popular in the 19th century. A disk with a picture on each side is attached to two pieces of string. When the strings are twirled quickly between the fingers the two pictures appear to blend into one.

kinetoscope

The Kinetoscope is an early motion picture exhibition device. The Kinetoscope was designed for films to be viewed by one individual at a time through a peephole viewer window at the top of the device. It is also know as the what the butlers saw. Normally the Kinetoscope was filled with node photo's of woman and to show the photo's the machine was winded up using one hand. The Kinetoscope was invented by Thomas Edison's 

mutoscope

The Mutoscope was an early motion picture device, invented by Winsor McCay . Like Thomas Edison's Kinetoscope it did not show on a screen it only provided viewing to one person at a time.