The History Of Animation

Georg Wilhelm Pabst (born August 27, 1885, Raudnice, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary [now Roudnice, Czech Republic]—died May 29, 1967, Vienna, Austria), German film director whose films were among the most artistically successful of the 1920s. Pabst’s films are marked by social and political concerns, deep psychological insight, memorable female protagonists, and human conflicts with culture and society. He is also noted for his mastery of film editing. Pabst was educated in Vienna and at age 20 began a career as a stage actor in Zürich. He performed in Berlin, New York City, and Salzburg, Austria, before turning to the cinema.

Audrey Hepburn once said, "Everything I learned I learned from the movies." Films have been created by many studios for many years now, including the Walt Disney Studios. This studio was founded on October 16, 1923, by Walt Disney and his brother Roy O. In the beginning of the Walt Disney Studio, short films were created and eventually led up to the famous full length films. Snow White and the Seven Dwarves was the first Disney movie released on February 4, 1938.

While not the first filmmaker to use it, D.W. Griffith helped pioneer the editing technique of crosscutting or parallel editing, alternating among multiple strands of the simultaneous story action. The concept of editing as montage is closely associated with Soviet filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein. While montages simply the French word for edit,the term has come to designate a theory of editing which emphasizes the breaks and contrasts between images joined by a cut. [3] The coming of sound technology in the late 1920s served to solidify Hollywood’s commitment to continuity editing, an approach which emphasizes spatial and temporal clarity in order to present a story to an audience in a logical and coherent manner. In the 1940s, cinematic realism became established as one of the primary aesthetic principles in film editing influenced in part by Italian neo-realism and documentary filmmaking

-Brief intro - Stop motion is one of the oldest methods of animation and is still used to this day. As technology and understanding of animation advanced, so did the quality of stop motion films. Two important films that show an advancement of technique are Ladislaw Starewicz The Mascot, and Street of Crocodiles from The Brothers Quay. -First film: - Ladislaw Starewicz: The Mascot 1933. The film follows the journey of a toy dog named Duffy who lives in a world where toys come to life.

Humorous Phases of Funny Faces is a silent cartoon by J. Stuart Blackton released in1906. It features a cartoonist drawing faces on a chalkboard, and the faces coming to life. It is generally regarded by film historians as the first animated film. Animation can be done using simple methods like flip book, Motion Picture, Flash animation, GIF. Animation creation methods include the traditional animation creation method and those involving stop motion animation of two and three-dimensional objects, such as paper cutouts, puppets and clay figures.

The 1920s was a decade fraught with transformation. In this period, everything was changing, from dress and dance styles, to institutions such as the church and school. In the latter half of this decade, this transformation found its way to the film industry. The time of the silent film had come to an end and movies were now starting to be produced with sound. Filmmakers across America wrote many pieces regarding this development.

Baroque period is time in the history of Western arts at around the 17th century. Early manifestations occurred in the final decades of the 16th century in Italy (Durant et al. 67). In some regions like Germany and colonial South America, the accomplishments were felt in the 18th century. This epoch was highly punctuated by artistic style which fused inflated motion and simple detail to generate drama, tension, enthusiasm and magnificence in painting, architecture, dance, music, sculpture, and literature.

CHARACTERISTIC IN HAYAO MIYAZAKI FILM Introduction Hayao Miyazaki was born in Tokyo, Japan on January 5, 1941. His early career begin in 1963 as an animator at the studio Toei Douga . Hayao has involved in many early classis of Japanese animation. In 1971, he moved to A Pro with Isao Takahata, then to Nippon Animation in 1973, which Hayao was heavily involved in the World Masterpiece Theater TV animation series for the next five years. Hayao get his first TV series directed in 1978, the series is called Conan, The Boy in Future.

The Industrial Revolution in the 1900s was a time of substantial transformation throughout society. Not only did countries become greatly dependent upon one another, but it has also influenced people’s lifestyles and the global economy. The effects of this are still relevant today. Of course this has brought many benefits, but resulting factors such as urbanization and the hunger for industrial and global economic growth has led to many problems, not the least of which is climate change. The Industrial Revolution started in the 18th century and has severely influenced the way humans interact with each other and their environment.

To establish Disney as a lead film-maker, the company had to release a full length film. Their first film, Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, was released in 1937 and became the first feature length film to utilize traditional animation techniques. What made these six years the Golden Age (1937 – 1942) was not the success of the films, but rather the amount of influence these films had over the industry. Disney explored the method of showing a story through a non-human source with Bambi (1942), began taking popular literature and creating films acceptable for children with Pinocchio (1940), and established the now famed Disney Princesses with Snow White and the Seven Dwarves (1937) (Odyssey). Villains created during this time period were illustrated to appear how villains were expected to look, meaning that they were illustrated with hard lines and angles in contrast to the protagonist’s softer curves.

On November 18, 1928, Walt Disney studios released Steamboat Willie which became a huge milestone in history of animation, since it was a very first cartoon to include a synchronize soundtrack, it was also the debuted Mickey and Minnie Mouse. Walt Disney studios used the new sound technology to produce steamboat Willie, which Led them to creating a series of animation called silly symphonies that contained new colored film technology. Although Walt Disney did release steamboat Willie it was actually his longtime friend and animator Ub Iwerks who created Mickey Mouse And animated most of silly symphonies. It was also thanks to steamboat Willie that Walt Disney Studio grew in terms of personnel, finance and prestige. Because of this they created

Harris describes the act of rewriting as not just simply copying the original piece, but it means to contribute new ideas, to create something unique based on other 's past work. A myriad of works of literature and media use the rewriting moves Joseph Harris speaks about in his book Rewriting: How to Do Things with Texts without being aware of it. Back in October 2009, Justin Roiland had schemed to “troll” a big studio in order to get cease and desist letters with the video originally intended to be named “Back to the Future: The New Official Universal Studios Cartoon Featuring the New Doc Brown and Marty McFly” (Roiland). Justin Roiland explains how The Real Animated Adventures of Doc and Mharti came to be, “I began editing the radio play and