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 the first feature length animated feature. Gulliver’s Travels, 1938, Fleisher Studios

Warner Brothers Studios, 1930’s

MGM Studios, 1940’s and 50’s

Birth of Stop Motion Animation King Kong, 1933

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 Cartoons and 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.