Animation Lecture

Early Animation

Humorous Phases of Funny Faces (1906)

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=8dRe85cNXwg

by newspaper cartoonist J. Stuart Blackton

Emile Cohl - Fantasmagorie 1908 [French]

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=aEAObel8yIE
Winsor McCay - 1911 - Little Nemo
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=kcSp2ej2S00&feature=related

New York Herald comic-strip animator and sketch artist Winsor McCay (1869-1934) produced a string of comic strips from 1904-1911, his three best being Dreams of the Rarebit Fiend, Little Sammy Sneeze, and Little Nemo in Slumberland (from October 15, 1905 to July 23, 1911). Although McCay wasn't the first to create a cartoon animation, he nonetheless helped to define the new industry. He was the first to establish the technical method of animating graphics. His first animation attempt used the popular characters from his comic strip (and became part of his own vaudeville act): Little Nemo in Slumberland (1911) (with 4,000 hand-drawn frames), followed by How a Mosquito Operates (1912) (with 6,000 frames).

Gertie the Dinosaur 1914
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=hwV-oFQsiOA&feature=PlayList&p=54DEE4C3355476B4&index=7
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=36gqBoUSJ4M&feature=PlayList&p=54DEE4C3355476B4&index=0

His first prominent, successful and realistic cartoon character or star was a brontosaurus named Gertie in Gertie the Dinosaur (1914) (with 10,000 drawings, backgrounds included), again presented as part of his act. In fact, McCay created the "interactive" illusion of walking into the animation by first disappearing behind the screen, reappearing on-screen!, stepping on Gertie's mouth, and then climbing onto Gertie's back for a ride - an astonishing feat! It was the earliest example of combined 'live action' and animation, and the first "interactive" animated cartoon. Some consider it the first successful, fully animated cartoon - it premiered in February 1914 at the Palace Theatre in Chicago.

Ladislaw Starewicz - Cameraman's Revenge

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=vIC0Sb6pLvI

Felix the Cat 1919 The Debut of Thomas Cat [first colour]

WFAC 2008 Trailer -Die Abenteuer des Prinzen Achmed-

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=L3uU3Cf0QKs

The little-known but pioneering, oldest-surviving feature-length animated film that can be verified (with silhouette animation techniques and color tinting) was released by German film-maker and avante-garde artist Lotte Reiniger, The Adventures of Prince Achmed (aka Die Abenteuer des Prinzen Achmed) (1926, Germ.), based on the stories from the Arabian Nights. Reiniger's achievement is often brushed aside, due to the fact that the animations were silhouetted, used paper cut-outs, and they were done in Germany. And the rarely-seen prints that exist have lost much of their original quality. However, the film was very innovative -- it used multi-plane camera techniques and experimented with wax and sand on the film stock.


Japanese Early Animation

Japanese Classic Cartoon (1933)
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=36gqBoUSJ4M&feature=PlayList&p=54DEE4C3355476B4&index=0
Eastern European Animation
Nowy Janko Muzykant
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=q_JVgaVDDfI&feature=PlayList&p=54DEE4C3355476B4&index=16
Holló Jankó
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=na9KnMZv3Rk&feature=related
Jan Švankmajer: Historia naturae
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=2R8dwv_vQJk&feature=PlayList&p=5E2E348FE2BE5925&index=22OK
Alice by Jan Svankmajer
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=C5wHMgTPF-s&NR=1
UK Children’s Animation
BAGPUSS EP1 PT1 (A tribute to oliver postgate)
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=IE0OuhiuNJE
Creature Comforts
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=P3AAdkfiamU&feature=PlayList&p=AF38471788E4BF63&index=1
Politicians debate the war in Iraq (Creature comforts)
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=6N_tnsvmeAo
Japanese Manga/Amime
Naruto Manga 402 [HQ English]
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=tGr1UjJb804&feature=PlayList&p=EC4D5A145EF8F253&index=0
CGI
toy story 2 videos bloopers
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=FtSxSxI--a0&feature=PlayList&p=012514254C09C2EB&index=15
Finding Nemo [07/11]
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=b__vDon2WJ4&feature=related

Ravensbourne Political Cartoons

British caricaturist and social critic George Cruikshank drew this nigthmarish image of "Social Reform" menacing the rich and powerful in 1819 to satirize aristocratic fears of change. "I'm coming! I'm coming! I shall have you!" the monster cries. "And though I'm at your heels now, I'll be at your heads presently."