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 thefirst feature length animated feature.

Gulliver’s Travels, 1938, Fleisher Studios

Warner Brothers Studios, 1930’s

MGM Studios, 1940’s and 50’s

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 Cartoonsand 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.