Little Nemo (1911) aka Winsor McCay, the Famous Cartoonist of the N.Y. Herald and His Moving Comics @mcanguish1977

mcanguish1977 [from Wikipedia] Little Nemo, also known as Winsor McCay, the Famous Cartoonist of the N.Y. Herald and His Moving Comics, is a 1911 animated short film by American cartoonist Winsor McCay. One of the earliest animated films, it was McCay's first, and adapted characters from McCay's comic strip Little Nemo in Slumberland.

Inspired by the flip books his son brought home, McCay "came to see the possibility of making moving pictures" of his cartoons. He claimed that he "was the first man in the world to make animated cartoons", though he was preceded by James Stuart Blackton and Émile Cohl. Little Nemo's character animation set it apart from the earlier films of Blackton and Cohl. McCay made four thousand drawings on rice paper for the short, which were shot at Vitagraph Studios under Blackton's supervision. Most of the film's running time is made up of a live-action sequence in which McCay bets his colleagues that he can make drawings that move. Little Nemo debuted in movie theatres on April 8, 1911, and four days later McCay began using it as part of his vaudeville act. Its good reception motivated him to hand-color each of the frames of the originally black-and-white film.

The film's success led McCay to devote more time to animation. He followed up Little Nemo with How a Mosquito Operates in 1912, and his best-known film Gertie the Dinosaur in 1914.

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Little Nemo (1911) aka Winsor McCay, the Famous Cartoonist of the N.Y. Herald and His Moving Comics

mcanguish1977 2013-07-29 | [from Wikipedia] Little Nemo, also known as Winsor McCay, the Famous Cartoonist of the N.Y. Herald and His Moving Comics, is a 1911 animated short film by American cartoonist Winsor McCay. One of the earliest animated films, it was McCay's first, and adapted characters from McCay's comic strip Little Nemo in Slumberland.

Inspired by the flip books his son brought home, McCay "came to see the possibility of making moving pictures" of his cartoons. He claimed that he "was the first man in the world to make animated cartoons", though he was preceded by James Stuart Blackton and Émile Cohl. Little Nemo's character animation set it apart from the earlier films of Blackton and Cohl. McCay made four thousand drawings on rice paper for the short, which were shot at Vitagraph Studios under Blackton's supervision. Most of the film's running time is made up of a live-action sequence in which McCay bets his colleagues that he can make drawings that move. Little Nemo debuted in movie theatres on April 8, 1911, and four days later McCay began using it as part of his vaudeville act. Its good reception motivated him to hand-color each of the frames of the originally black-and-white film.

The film's success led McCay to devote more time to animation. He followed up Little Nemo with How a Mosquito Operates in 1912, and his best-known film Gertie the Dinosaur in 1914.

The Centaurs (1921) Winsor McCay animation

mcanguish1977 2013-07-29 | Animated film by Winsor McCay from c. 1921. Only survives in fragments---possibly it was never finished.

How a Mosquito Operates (1912) Winsor McCay animation

mcanguish1977 2013-07-29 | [from Wikipedia] How a Mosquito Operates (1912), also known as The Story of a Mosquito, is a silent animated film by American cartoonist and animator Winsor McCay. The second of McCay's animated films, it is about a giant mosquito who torments a sleeping man. The short is one of the earliest examples of animation and is noted for the high technical quality of its naturalistic animation, considered far ahead of its contemporaries. McCay followed this film up in 1914 with his best-known animated work, Gertie the Dinosaur.

McCay had a reputation for technical dexterity in his cartooning, displayed most famously in the children's comic strip Little Nemo in Slumberland (1905--1911). Beginning in 1906, he displayed his abilities in chalk talks before live audiences on the vaudeville circuit. After seeing flip books that his son Bob brought home, McCay delved into the infant art of film animation. He finished his first film (Little Nemo) in 1911, and incorporated it into his vaudeville act. McCay followed Little Nemo's success with How a Mosquito Operates, in which a mosquito preys on a sleeping man; the mosquito's abdomen swells as it draws blood until it explodes. The technical quality of McCay's animation was unmatched until Walt Disney's feature films appeared in the 1930s.

Flips Circus (1921) Winsor McCay animation (Dreams of the Rarebit Fiend)

mcanguish1977 2013-07-29 | [from Wikipedia] Bug Vaudeville is a 1921 fantasy in which a tramp comes out from a group of meticulously drawn trees, announcing he is sleepy. He falls asleep after saying, "[C]heese cakes are bad", as they give him strange dreams. Against the backdrop, a series of bugs put on performance after performance, against highly-detailed and realistic backgrounds. The performance comes to an end when a spider grabs the silhouetted member of the audience (who had been visible throughout the performance) and eats him whole. The film is presented as a vaudeville show, though it does not make use of the human--animation stage interaction that McCay used with Gertie the Dinosaur.

Congenial baby destroys military

mcanguish1977 2012-08-26 | This video was uploaded from an Android phone.