Tuesday, 2 November 2010

Walt Disney - Flowers And Trees (1932)

The first animation to use the full, three colour technicolour method.

Walt Disney's Snow white and the seven dwarfs 1937

The first animated feature film to use cel animation.

Adventures of prince Achmed

A beautiful piece of traditional animation.

Feature length films

El Apostol was the first animated feature film made in 1917 by Quirino Cristiani from Argentina, he also directed two others including peludopolis, which was the first to use syncronised sound, in 1931, but none of these survived.
The silhouette animated Adventures of prince achmed which used colour tinted scenes is the earliest animated feature film to survive, it was made in 1926 and was directed by Lotte Reiniger and Berthold Bartosch.

Early example of character animation

Gertie the Dinosaur 1914 by american cartoonist Windsor McCay

Thursday, 28 October 2010