This was really informative. Taking a look back at such a diverse history of animation in a mere 10 minutes was a real pleasure. Thanks for making this.
Between 1872 and 1928 there is lots to talk about: Émile Cohl’s “Fantasmagorie,” from 1908, (one of the first hand-drawn animated films to grace purpose built cinemas). Early animators such as Windsor McCay and Max Fleisher, who’s mix of live action and animation with Gertie the Dinosaur and Out of the Inkwell were wildly popular. Lotte Reiniger who produced The Adventures of Prince Achmed; the first feature length animated film, in 1926 definitely deserves a mention.
lol I literally also teared up, they hold some of the most efectively nostalgic pieces of media ever and they don't overuse them. What a bunch of freaking genuises.
I'm afraid this is a little *too* brief, skipping over significant phases and not actually sticking to a chronological order. There was a lot of early animation on film before Steamboat Willie in 1928, for example. The very popular Felix the Cat cartoons that ran throughout the 20s, or the even earlier animation experiments by Windsor McCay and other pioneering animators. Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs came out in 1937, and set the style and tone of their later animated movies of the '40s, '50s, and '60s. Scooby Doo may have well been a good representative of the Hannah Barbara limited animation style, but it came out in 1969-1970, after several other Hannah Barbara features, like The Flinststones, The Jetsons, Top Cat, and Johnny Quest. The Flintstones started in 1960, but it was distinctive not so much for its animation as the fact that it was a prime time television show, as opposed to being shown at the movies or on Saturday mornings. Hanna Barbara's Huckleberry Hound Show started two years earlier in 1958. And what about the Fleischer studio's use of rotoscoping in the Superman cartoons in the early 40s? Or in Ralph Bakshi's animated movies in the 70s? Or if you're going to talk about stop motion animation, then why no mention of Gumby and Pokey, Art Clokey's "Claymation" style, which first appeared in 1953? And then you want to talk about animation in videos without mentioning Peter Gabriel's Sledgehammer video or A-Ha's Take On Me video, or countless others that preceded your examples? So, like I said, too brief, and you skipped over some pretty major developments in animation. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_animation
Do you mean Rotoscoping? I'm not sure what role he played in cel shading and I'm having trouble finding anything on it but I'd love to know! I'm actually writing an essay on Max Fleischer (and did a presentation on the brothers)
@@2cents4u Cel animation was invented by Earl Hurd and John Bray in 1915, way before either the Fleishers or Disney. If you "went to school for Animation," you should ask for your money back. :)
@@CB-vx8dt yes! That's it. I couldn't remember the technique lol. It's too bad they didn't have enough money and had to go through Paramount. The Brothers are revolutionary in the Animation field. Disney literally copied their style after they refused to sell to them. Copied Bimbo the Dog and made Mickey Mouse (even doing crazy trippy shit like Bimbo did). Then Betty Becoming Minnie as Mickey's love interest.
Steamboat Willie was not photographed on the multiplane camera. Snow White was the first film to use it, and it's about giving depth to the backgrounds by animating different layers at different speeds, for example forground tracks faster than background. If you're teaching about animation this is basic stuff Will.
These animators are geniuses. There are others like J Stuart Blackton & later on Lottie Reiniger that I've only just found out about besides all these listed on this video, & probably many more too. But they're all so gifted & imagine if they could see what an inspiration they are today. 👏🌝
I am going to do a video essay or like a presentation about animation and I found that this video has the same purpose! Thanks for the information very much dude!! It is very clear and I have a better clue about my assignment now.
You seemed to missed some key historical events. Like Snow White being the first full length animated movie. The music video thing started much earlier than your showing there. You totally skip when Pixar came into the picture, just jumping right to studio gibly. There's quite few other key points missed that probably should have been in there instead of some the other more abstract points shown. Now, if this was a essay to show forgotten animation or over looked animation history, this would make more sense. I realize most college essays have to be done in time frame, but think about what is more important if trying to be historical data. Being showy is good, especially in animation or film schools, but still make sure the big key points are hit before abstracts get mentioned.
@@snailhuman It was for ANIMATED films. There were ones with live actors. No one to that time thought a animated movie would make it. So much so, that they called Snow White "Disney's Folly" thinking it would bankrupt him. If that movie hadn't succeeded, animated movies would taken much longer to be on big screen and Disney corp would of died there due to how heavy in debt it put them.
Yes- we are talking about animated films. The first surviving feature length animated film is from 1926 by a German woman named Lotte Reiniger. The film is called The Adventures of Prince Achmed. It is also technically the first color full length animation feature. Reiniger invented the Multi-Plane camera, which is used essentially like photoshop layers. Walt Disney is often falsely credited not only for making the first full length animation feature, but also the invention of the multi-plane camera. She made beautiful feature length animation films a decade before Disney, was a major pioneer of early animation and cinema- I highly recommend her work and wish history would give her due credit.
@@snailhuman Sounds like another case of College courses not giving correct information... Or for what ever reason, making seem like America makes everything. Thanks for that tidbit of knowledge. That film never showed up in any my history stuff while still in school.
There was this animator, who did 16 frames per second and was very intricate and good with perspective.. I remember watching his clips called something "A Magician's.... " I don't remember him. This was probably his last project and was half done due to funding issues... Does anyone remember his name?
You mean to say there was no animation before 1928? Then who were Emile Cohl, Winsor McCay, and Max Fleischer? Brief history or not, you really left out a lot of the foundational work that led to Disney. Then too, which aspect of animation are you focusing on, the animated cartoon, or experimental/expressionist animation? This is a confused and misdirected piece. I'd be interested in know what grade you received.
Can somebody help me find the name of an animation created a long time ago? The guy who created it was called Matt but i dont remember his last name. But it was about this man and woman that were having an affair her husband was greedy and stole money from a guy next door. The guy next door died because her husband pushed him out of the window. The woman's other man with the glasses got blamed and got thrown in jail. But he escaped with a spoon. The little town or community went searching for him her husband died and the woman and the man ran off to the bushes.
You skipped Windsor McCay who invented cel animation back in the 1910's, you left out the fact that Norman Mclaren created his soundtracks by scratching directly onto the film strip (a totally new form of synthesized sound at the time), and you started talking about Bambi as if I was happening at the same time the Hannah Barbera cartoons were being made but those came out in the 60's and Bambi was released in 1942
This also leaves out Thomas Edison. He was actually the one who did that horse animation, and ended up inventing Motion pictures for it. It was some bet he had with someone else and ended up inventing the film industry.
*Inventing American Motion Pictures. Motion pictures were invented around the same time in France and the UK. Edison's were also individual experiences with viewers having to look into a box to view the movie (Kinetoscope) however it wasn't until the Lumière brothers in France invented the first commercially viable projector (cinématographe) which functioned as a camera, printer as well as a projector in 1895 that people were able to enjoy movies together. It's actually pretty awesome to see how inventors all got inspired around the same time and actually some of them were friends and would marvel at how the other had made improvements. It must have been such a joyous time back then with all the creations and exciting opportunities that awaited.
@luke blake Yeah, that time period had a lot of people effectively working on the same thing, all making a ton of inventions in a short period of time.
I was looking for a short history of animation to show my high school art students. This might fit the bill! I think it was a good effort but being a visual medium, would love to see it without the captions running across the images. (just a suggestion!)
An Question?? So The Animation Stand is the Table Devise assembled fot The Filming of Animation and the Rostrum Camera is the Animation Camera used in the Television and filming movies?? Example: THE DIFFERENCE OF THE ANIMATION STAND IS A TABLE OR MACHINE TO CAPTURE THE IMAGE AND THE ROSTRUM CAMERA IS A FILMING CAMERA ?? and in what year and decade did the computer start in animation and what was the first animation studio to use the computer
hello! this is a really random question, but what was that sound from the beginning when the video was “going back in time”? i’ve heard the same sound on an album but i could never place it until now!
I don't believe for a second that this came out of the 1800. Animation was definitely already discovered and mastered in the society that was destroyed before ours..
2:06 I feel like you skipped a lot here. You skipped the creation of Felix the Cat, Gertie the Dinosaur, Plane Crazy, Out of the Inkwell, and several other big accomplishments
Good video, but you forgot a few animations before Steamboat Willie. Such as: - Humorous Phases of Funny Faces (1906) - "Fantasmagorie" (1908) - Max Fleisher's animations (1920s) - The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926) I'm sure other comments have covered these, but anyway there you go.
And where is mentioned Karel Zeman and his unique animation mixing technic, used for example in Cesta do praveku/ Journey to the Beginning of Time 1955. Weird.
Good effort for a college project. But there are too many gaps, as others (including myself 2 years ago) have noted: No silent film animation, no Warner, or Fleischer, or George Pal, or Ray Harryhausem. I know it's called "brief" but then don't include Bob's Burgers, instead use The Simpsons to represent current TV animation that uses Toonboom. Plus some facts are incorrect: Len Lye's film was not rotoscoped, it is processed live footage. Yellow Submarine was not commissioned by the Beatles, in fact they didn't want anything to do with it, which is why they don't provide the voices (they finally agreed to appear in the end once they saw how good it was). Also the film doesn't use direct animation.
Aint the creator of Betty Boop (i forgot how to spell her na e cause its been so long so please correct me) the first one to make the first cartoon ever
Betty Boop first appeared in 1930, well after animated cartoons had started. Fleischer Studios, the producers of Betty Boop, first got started in 1921, and the brothers Max, Joe, and Dave Fleischer apparently were doing animated cartoons as early as 1914. Which is pretty early in the history of cartoons, but they still weren't the first to do cartoons. Fantasmagorie is a 1908 French animated film by Émile Cohl. It is one of the earliest examples of traditional (hand-drawn) animation, and considered by film historians to be the first animated cartoon. However there were even earlier attempts at animation on film, even if they aren't considered to be "cartoons". en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_animation
1872 to 1928 between of this years is this animes?? animations for example felix the cat (1919) gertie the dinosaur (1914) the funny faces (1906) fantasmagorise(1908) little nemo (1911) the capitain and the kids (1897) trolley tourblues (1926)
