Mockbuster are one of the human' s cultural part indeed. Perhaps even local folktales all across the world, which have similar story and idea are "knock off" too not just incidental similarity or borrowing other's culture story
It's sad that McCay didn't live to see Mickey Mouse. On the other hand, Bray saw Disney dominate the industry that he had tried to strongarm as his own.
There's an old saying out there, that give a lazy man a difficult task and he will find a way to make it easy. It's wild how much Bray embodied that saying, for better or worse.
True. She basically have same status as Moby Dick, Frankenstein's monster, and Bram Stoker Dracula yet still no one depicted her in modern pop culture? Perhaps her appearance that too "generic" like common cartoon sauropod so people less able to recognized her
She had a small one panel cameo in the IDW comic book adaptation of Dinosaurs Attack! where she's among a crowd of several other pop culture dinosaurs.
Gerty is a menace. She entered the scene and immediately gobbled up a rock like a boss. A water serpent and pterosaur fled from her. She ripped out and swallowed a whole tree. And she effortlessly chucked a mammoth into the lake.
It's always the greedy people who screw passionate people over huh? (Also cannot believe Bray thought he could get away w/ sueing someone that he blatantly stole from. Glad that didn't work)
It truly pisses me off that a great man who truly loved and cared for his work died so much younger then a cold heartless monster who twisted his own passion into a cold buisness asset. Acting like a mobster to get his way when together these 2 couldve literally started a studio together that wouldve rivaled what walt disney was later able to achieve
I don't know why but I thought Gertie eating that tree like a giant broccoli was oddly satisfying as a kid. Maybe I just liked to watch herbivores eat for some reason and wishes that leaf and grass was more tastier and less sharp and rough in real life.
According to Canemaker's book, McCay used an apple for his vaudeville acts, only to be changed to a pumpkin later when it was re-released by Box Office Attractions
