History of Animation

Popular genre of theatrically-presented live entertainment, showcasing a variety of entertainers doing unrelated acts in a single program from the early 1880s to the early 1930s

Before photography was a viable option to capture images, newspapers often relied on...

• Illustrations

• Descriptive writing

• The reader's knowledge of the what was being reported

Journalist Illustrators were required to draw... (select multiple)

• Quickly

• Details

• Realistically

• Excitingly

Many journalist illustrators were also lightning sketch entertainers

• True

• False

Future animators who did journalist illustration and/or lightning sketch included...

• J. Stuart Blackton

• Winsor McCay

• Emile Cohl

• John Randolph Bray

• Georges Méliès

A sequence that can be repeated over and over, such as characters walking/running, flags waving, grass blowing

Co-Founder of the American Vitagraph Company. Humorous Phases of Funny Faces and The Haunted Hotel.

• J. Stuart Blackton

• Georges Méliès

• Winsor McCay

• Earl Hurd

Animator with journalism background. Involved in two French art collectives. Viewed animation as a viable artform in itself. Fantasmagorie

• Walter Lance

• Emile Cohl

• Will Randolph Hearst

• Winsor McCay

The first animated comic strip adaptation was for...

• Popeye the Sailor

• The Newlyweds

• Felix the Cat

• Little Sammy Sneeze

Newspaper comic artist. Gertie the Dinosaur and Sinking of the Lusitania are animations, but also created newspaper strips such as "Little Nemo in Slumberland" and "Dream of the Rarebit Fiend"

• Raoul Barre

• Earl Hurd

• Otto Messmer

• Winsor McCay