In class we learn't about the history of film and animation between 1905-1915. These are the noted I took from the slideshow. The information gathered tells about the different techniques that many directors used.
James Stuart Blackton (USA/UK)
He was English born and was working as a journalist in New York. He interviewed Thomas Edison. He mentioned to Edison that he was interested in drawing, Edison got him to draw his portrait and this changed the direction of Blacktons career. He became a cameraman, director and one of the founders of animation.
Blackton created what is claimed by some as the first drawn animation recorded on film
Humorous
Phases of Funny Faces (1906) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dRe85cNXwg
The
Enchanted Drawing (1900) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYDmH2B9XJw
The
Haunted Hotel (1907) https://vimeo.com/73913684
Emile Cohl (France)
Cohl was a member of an art animation called The Incoherents- A short lived French art movement created by a Parisian writer and publisher Jules Levy in 1882 later associated with avant-garde and anti-art. They held art exhibitions for those who could not draw, challenging convention and were the precursors of the surrealists and conceptual artists.
Cohl took this attitude and created a new medium of animation and templates for cartoons to come. His characters were distorted, stretched, came apart, transformed into objects and animals and then recovered afterwards.
He laid out the path for Disney, Warner Bros and Pixar.
Created Fantasmagorie
(1908) Considered
to be the world’s first fully animated film
Martin Thornton (UK)
Created In Golliwog Land (1912) Combination of stop-motions and live-action. Credited as the first to use colour in animated film through a process called Kinemacolour-A complex process involving a filter mechanism in the camera exposing frames through colour filters.
Winsor McCay (USA)
He was a largely self taught classical animator. His work has a realistic use of perspective, precise lines and intricate designs.
One of the first animators to preview, test and refine the flow of drawings before filming them.
Gertie
the Dinosaur (1914), McCay
interacts with his creation on stage
Ladislaw Starewicz (Russia)
Famous for making embalmed inscects the starts of his films by removing their legs and reattaching with wax to be posed for animation (Poseable figures).
His film The Beautiful Leukandia (1910) Was a huge success worldwide. A review in London newspaper reported that the beetles were alive and trained by a Russian scientist.
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