Mccay was featured on stage in front of a screen and then directed gertie to perform. A security guard and a girl environmentalist try to stop both it and the companys doomsday bioweapon. Winsor mccay introduced his tame dinosaur, gertie, to the world. Play games, watch videos, and support our kickstarter campaign for a feature film with a fun tshirt, plush toy, art print or other collectible from our gertie the dinostore.
Gertie is the best preserved film of pioneering animator winsor mccay. A brief history of gertie the dinosaur although there is no art from gertie the dinosaur available on our website, we can often. Who is gertie the dinosaur at disneys hollywood studios. Gertie walks through the picture, eats a tree, meets her creator, and takes him carefully on her back for a ride. She encounters a train and dreams of being the life of the party in her time. Secret of the lost legend 1985 massacre in dinosaur valley 1985 ganjasaurus rex 1987 the land before time 1988, animated adventures in dinosaur city 19911992 galaxy of the dinosaurs 1992 the. Wars of the primal tribes gertie the dinosaur 1914, animated birth of a flivver 1916 morpheus mike 1917. I will take recommendations for everything thats 40 minutes max. You know, the one where the science behind the creation of the dinosaurs in the film was explained. Aug 03, 2009 he wasnt the first artist to complete and exhibit an animated film. On february 8, 1914, the world was first introduced to gertie the dinosaur, a lovable if mildly mischievous brontosaurus created by cartoonist winsor mccay. Instead of having to draw 360 pictures, he only had to draw 36 pictures, and reuse them, saving having to draw the other 324. Telecharger gertie the dinosaur film complet en francais.
The cartoonists winsor mccay and george mcmanus, the humorist roy mccardell, and others are. Winsor mccay gertie the dinosaur 1914 complete part ii. Gertie the dinosaur had a huge impact at the time, and inspired a whole generation of animation film pioneers e. Gertie the dinosaur is a 1914 short animated film by winsor mccay that inspired many generations of animators to bring their cartoons to life.
Gertie the dinosaur might sway from side to side once, taking 2 seconds, or 36 pictures, and mr. In november of that year, gertie the dinosaur was released to theaters, and the whole country had the opportunity to be amazed at mccays inventiveness and craftsmanship. The film was also the first to be created using keyframe animation. A genetically manipulated and very hungry dinosaur escapes from a bioengineering company and reeks havoc on the local desert town. Gertie the dinosaur, one of the earliest animations, turns. Gertie the dinosaur 1914 winsor mccay, the famous cartoonist of the n. Jul 27, 2009 this is the version of the film generally seen today. But the father of them all, and a man who deserves to be known as the father of american animation, is winsor mccay, whose creation gertie the dinosaur was the very first dinosaur to be on the big screen mccay was one of those enormously. A version of gertie the dinosaur released in late 1914 still exists and is known as the first animated film to not only feature a dinosaur but also a. Winsor mccay had made two animated films before gertie.
Fitzsimmons who traced the backgrounds to create 10,000 drawings, which they. Mccay accepted, and extended the film to include a liveaction prologue and intertitles to replace his stage patter. A film with a star and a storyline, gertie the dinosaur became a landmark in the history of animation. Gertie the trained dinosaur new title winsor mc cay, the famous cartoonist, and gertie. Gertie the dinosaur 1914 worlds 1st keyframe animation cartoon winsor mccay online video cutter duration. Gertie the dinosaur is a 1914 animated short film by american cartoonist and animator winsor. The first 10 movies to ever feature dinosaurs reelrundown. In the film mccay makes a bet with friends that he can bring a dinosaur to life. Gertie the dinosaur, one of the earliest animations.
He is best known for the comic strip little nemo 190514. Mccay used separate foreground and background animation that was later tied together to create the completed film. Official website of gertie the dinosaur the worlds first cartoon star. This movie required winsor mccay and his assistant john a.
So he draws a big friendly herbivore called gertie. Gertie the dinosaur was created by newspaper cartoonist winsor mccay in 19. Winsor mccay gertie the dinosaur 1914 complete part i. It has a fun prologue that sets up the entire story with a bet. Mar 03, 2015 gertie the dinosaur 1914 worlds 1st keyframe animation cartoon winsor mccay online video cutter duration. The cartoon was projected onto a screen on the stage, and gertie seemed to interact. Gertie the dinosaur is a 1914 animated short film by winsor mccay. So grateful these beautiful films are restored and available. The cartoonists winsor mccay and george mcmanus, the humorist roy mccardell, and others are out for a joy ride when suddenly a tire goes flat. Gertie the dinosaur is a 1914 american animated short film by winsor mccay. The film truly is an all time classic, and enjoyable to this very day.
Winsor mccay gertie the dinosaur 1914 complete part ii duration. From the first page of the book all the way to the end, you are taken on a journey of film history from gertie the dinosaur, king kong, and all the dinosaur movies that were produced from the dawn of the 20th century to 2002. This is the giants shoulders that disney and todays animators stand upon. Other articles where gertie the dinosaur is discussed. In the liveaction portion, mccay accepts a bet from fellow cartoonist george mcmanus that he can make the dinosaur come to life.
In late 1914 william fox offered to market gertie the dinosaur to movingpicture theaters. Watch gertie the dinosaur winsor mccay, 1914 dephaad on dailymotion. One of the earliest examples of animation art in film, gertie the dinosaur, while primitive by todays standards, featured many techniques later adapted by other animators. Gertie was the first featured character created specifically for the new medium. He wasnt the first artist to complete and exhibit an animated film. It was a short 12minute film that was handdrawn and created by mccay. For contractual reasons, he worked under the pen name silas on the comic strip dream of the rarebit fiend from a young age, mccay was a quick, prolific, and. His second film, how a mosquito operates 1912, inspired by a panel from dream of the rarebit fiend, is a grotesquely funny account of a giant mosquito harassing a sleeping man, only to be. This is the version of the film generally seen nowadays. Gertie the dinosaur, professor balthazar retooned post. Flip, one of the stars of little nemo, has a circus with a giant gertielike dinosaur he trains, effectively combining two of mccays greatest hits into one package.
Mccay first used the film before live audiences as an interactive part of his vaudeville act. Gertie the dinosaur winsor mccay, 1914 video dailymotion. The cartoonist, winsor mccay, brings the dinosaurus back to life in the figure of his latest creation, gertie the dinosaur. The film was also the first to be created using keyframe. Gertie the dinosaur is a 1914 animated short film by american cartoonist and animator winsor mccay. Gertie the dinosaur standing on a cliff edge looking at a mastodon contributor names. But the father of them all, and a man who deserves to be known as the father of american animation, is winsor mccay, whose creation gertie the dinosaur was the very first dinosaur to be on the big screen. By the early 1920s, he had turned his attention elsewhere.
Gertie the dinosaur was produced before the introduction of. Gertie could do fun tricks like rolling over and raising her feet. Gertie on tour excerpts other title fragments from gertie on tour summary gertie is a dinosaur who lives in present times. Nov 06, 2011 though she suffered a sophomore slump in her second, incomplete film, gertie on tour, gertie lives on as one of the most influential animated characters ever, and her debut short has gone on to be preserved in the national film registry, alongside classics like gone with the wind and casablanca. In 1989, walt disney imagineers honored gertie and the role she played in the history of animated film by constructing this oversized tribute to her at disneys hollywood studios, a theme park that serves as the ultimate tribute to movie history. Mccay had created a 7minute hand drawn cartoon of a sauropod dinosaur, based on the brontosaurus skeleton that had been displayed in the american museum of natural history in new york since 1905. The film was composed of more than 10,000 drawings. Gertie did indeed do some things no other film had done before. Paul terry, frank moser, pat sullivan, otto messmer and the fleischer brothers. Although not the first animated film, as is sometimes thought, it was the first cartoon to feature a character with an appealing personality. The last dinosaur 1977, made for tv where time began 1978 planet of dinosaurs 1978 a. Here is the original 1914 film of gertie the dinosaur that was distributed around the world.
The framing device, a live action sequence in which mccay creates the film on a bet that he can make drawings move, was reused for gertie the dinosaur. Mccay bets another cartoonist that he can animate a dinosaur. Mccays stage dialogue with gertie was replaced with intertitles, and the film still kept much of its charm. This is the version of the film generally seen today. For wider distribution, mccay turned his gertie the dinosaur into a onereel film which frames the animated sequence with a liveaction story. Mccay would repeat that movement 10 times, to expand to 20 seconds of screen time.
Mccays cartoons have a fluidity of motion, a sense of depth and perspective, a vibrancy of. Here is the list i am currently working through, with a random number generator determining the film each day. Some film histories erroneously cite this as the first animated cartoon, ignoring not only humorous phases. Winsor mccay, george mcmanus, roy mccardell, max fleischer, gertie the dinosaur tracing by.
Jul 03, 2017 there is gertie the dinosaur anatomically resembling that apatosaurus skeleton, complete with the wider camarasaurus skull, walking up to the camera, amidst a background of rocks and a lake, and performing basic tricks at the cartoonists behest, like raising her left foot then right foot, eating a rock, eating a tree, and picking up a. That bet is pictured in this new kickstarter, gertie the dinosaur feature film. And the beautiful, breathtaking sinking of the lusitania is worth two times the price of the dvd. Artist winsor mccay used full animation a new drawing for each individual frame of filmand while he himself did all the drawings of gertie, he hired his. There is gertie the dinosaur anatomically resembling that apatosaurus skeleton, complete with the wider camarasaurus skull, walking up to the camera, amidst a background of rocks and a lake, and performing basic tricks at the cartoonists behest, like raising her left foot then right foot, eating a rock, eating a tree, and picking up a.
Mccay was one of those enormously important innovators who create whole new art forms. Gertie the dinosaur would be widely, and wrongly, termed the first animated cartoonwhen it wasnt even the first animated cartoon by mccaybut that hinted at its cultural significance. It is the earliest animated film to feature a dinosaur. Sweet, mischievous gertie, with her ready tears, excitable nature, and complete inability to miss a chance to get herself in trouble, is widely credited as the first character created specifically for animation, and the first to demonstrate a personality all of her own. Part of my effort to watch at least one short film per day.
Released as onereel film in 1914, though the character was created and seen in a short cartoon in mccays vaudeville act circa 1909. The most substantial of mccays unfinished sketches, flips circus exists in complete enough form to suggest what the finished product was intended to be. Cel from gertie the dinosaur, one of the earliest animated films, listed on the national film registry, library of congress. Mccays employer william randolph hearst curtailed mccays vaudeville. Gertie the dinosaur 1914 1st keyframe animation cartoon. Most cartoon characters of the early 20th century had their origins in newspaper comic strips.
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