Week 1: Origins of Animation

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Week 1: Origins of Animation Various shorts

1820s – 1920s Invention of the moving image Evolution of animation from spectacle/novelty attraction to narrative form Evolution of animation production from individual experimenters and inventers to studio-based mass production Evolution of animation from novelty, ‘variety’ item to part of the regular film bill Most of this happened between 1900 & 1915

Proto-animation Once thought to be dependent on the persistence of vision Thaumatrope (John Paris ~ 1824)

Phenakistiscope (Joseph Plateau, early 1830s)

Zoetrope (William Horner, 1834)

Flipbook

Zoopraxiscope (Eadward Muybridge, 1879) Studying animal motion

Praxinoscope (Emile Reynaud, 1877) … first theatrical projections of moving images

Emile Reynaud’s Optical Theatre (1892) http://www.museudelcinema.cat/eng/colleccio_recursos.php?idreg=1397

George Méliès Trick films Special effects over plot A Trip to the Moon (1904) ‘Rediscovered’ in 1929

James Stuart Blackton Lightening sketches and trick films ‘Discovered’ animation by mistake Notable films: Enchanted Drawing (1900) Humorous Phases of Funny Face (1904) Haunted Hotel (1907)

The Enchanted Drawing (1900)

Humorous Phases of Funny Face (1904)

The Haunted Hotel (1907)

Themes in Early Animation Lack of narrative Supernatural and scientific Popular culture (mass culture) Magician type present Trick photography

Paul Ward ‘Defining “Animation”: The Animated Film and the Emergence of the Film Bill’ Positioned animation in the first decades of cinema’s existence Shifts in production, distribution and exhibition variety, novelty Film bill- feature narrative films Standardisation of animation- cel technology

Emile Cohl Haunted Hotel- inspiration Only 40 or so of his 200+ films survive Invented ‘language of cinema’ Metamorphosis Foregrounded drawings

Phantasmagorie (1908)

Windsor McKay Began as a newspaper cartoonists (‘Little Nemo in Slumberland’) First film based on ‘Little Nemo’- 4,000 drawings Gertie (1914)- 10,000 drawings

John Barré Introduced standard perforations in drawing paper- sheets stacked on fixed pins (‘perf and peg’ system) Slash system- drawing backgrounds only once, leaving gaps for moving elements

John Randolph Bray Division of labour- system of production Three technical developments: Printed backgrounds Creating shadows on drawings Cel animation Colonised talent (Hurd, Max Fleischer)