Post by artiegirl on Jan 17, 2021 21:21:45 GMT
Introduction: Hello, I have wanted to make an history about animated short films, So I want to tell you the history about it.
Animated short films are the respectful format of animation and typically started as shorts in the silent era, They are mostly made independently until the involvement of animation studios in the 1910s, They are a lot examples of primitive short animations that are made before film.
Predecessors of short animations
Short animations were made during the time when humans try to depict motion in the paleolithic era, they aren't true animation, but it's simulated, Egyptians simulate movement as well, Greeks and the Iran people have depicted motion by spinning cups to make an short animation.
Magic Lantern Shows and Primitive short films
The Magic Lantern was made during the 1600s, They were an a lot of shows throughout the Victorian era in Europe, They've made movement slides to have the illusion of movement and various slides, They're often depicted as primitive animated short films.
Optical Toys and The Praxinoscope
They've been many optical toys have been made including toy projectors, They have short animations and also animation loops, considering as the earliest animated short films and loops also marks as primitive hand-drawn animation.
Flip books are also considered as early animated short films and early hand-drawn animation
In the 1870's, Charles-Émile Reynaud made the Praxinoscope and then the Théâtre Optique in the late 19th century, They're only 2 of them made and often considered as the world's early animated short films to be on theaters.
Animated shorts in the Silent Era and The arrival of Animation studios.
After cinematography was invented, People have started making silent animated short films, They've been made as independent animated short films before the animation industry.
One of the fully animated short films to be made in the silent era is Fantasmagorie, it is the considered to be the early animated short to be shoot on 2's, Even the animation looks similar to that of a flip book, also marks the early animated short film to use morphing.
Winsor McCay, who is an newspaper cartoonist made animations such his adaptation of Little Nemo, Gertie The Dinosaur and the first animated using cels, The Sinking of Lusitania.
Newspaper cartoonists and the animation industry.
In the 1910's when Bray studios is founded, They've been a lot of newspaper cartoonists wanting to make animated short films, The result is rather mediocre that the animation in the shorts were very stiff and barely have any movement it felt like early motion comics.
This led to Max Fleischer to make the Rotoscope to make the animations look very realistic.
Golden age of animation and Animation units in film studios.
Okay, I'm going to make this brief, since everybody knows this already,
When sound on film was involved, It was huge success, Walt Disney made the 1928 animated short film, Steamboat Willie.
Leon Schlesinger had founded the first animation unit in the Warner Bros. Studio and Produced the first animated short film series in it's animation unit called Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies, Ex-Disney animators Hugh Harman and Rudolf Ising have the made the first short film in the series called Sinkin' in the Bathtub.
MGM Cartoons studio was involved in the 1930's, with Harman and Ising making various short film series, in 1940 William Hanna and Joseph Barbera made their animated debut in Puss gets the boot is considered as the first installment in the Tom and Jerry series, Tex Avery had move to MGM cartoons and Characters like The Wolf, Droopy and Red and other characters that he created in the animation studio.
Columbia Pictures animation studio, Screen Gems has been involved as well and Studios that aren't animation units such as Famous Studios.
They have been independent animation studios in foreign countries such as Soyuzmultfilm in Russia, Halas and Batchelor in the United Kingdom and Pannonia Film Studio in Hungary.
UPA and Decline of theatrical short films.
UPA founded during the Disney's animator strike in 1941, the Layout artist, John Hubley and his colleagues wanted to make his own animation studio and thus, it was actually founded in 1943.
Their early work was making short films for wartime governments and one of the short films that they've made the Private Snafu short,
A Few Quick Facts about Fear.
They've made various short films that are distributed by Columbia Pictures and later make the Jolly Frolics short film series, It had an unique use of Abstract colors, Thick Outlines and rather interesting concept and storytelling and yet, Limited animation.
Television became extremely popular in various households and make them of not going to the movie theater on an daily basis.
TV shows have been involved so that they can be made into episodes that last over 20 minutes than long feature length film.
A lot of animated short films have been on TV since the 1940's and Live-action short films haven't been televised on the 1950's.
However, the animation units were starting to shut down and one of them was MGM cartoons.
William Hanna and Joseph Barbera decided to make an Television animation studio by the name of Hanna-Barbera.
Seven-arts had made the final Looney Tunes shorts in the late 1960's.
Pink Panther and Short films made by Depatie-Freleng have been the last short films to be on theaters.
This led to the popularity of Film Festivals.
The Popularity of Film Festivals
There have been various film festivals and they even involved as of now.
This no info about how they got involved, but they're popular.
Independent shorts and Modern media
There have been an extremely colossal amount of Independent animated shorts and they've being made as of today.
It led the involvement of Student films, Experimental films and the Web.
As of nowadays animated shorts are made independently and showing in various video hosting sites such as Vimeo and YouTube.
All of them are made Non-Profit, however, in the extreme wide world of animation, Short films remain to be an immensely popular format in animation.
Animated short films are the respectful format of animation and typically started as shorts in the silent era, They are mostly made independently until the involvement of animation studios in the 1910s, They are a lot examples of primitive short animations that are made before film.
Predecessors of short animations
Short animations were made during the time when humans try to depict motion in the paleolithic era, they aren't true animation, but it's simulated, Egyptians simulate movement as well, Greeks and the Iran people have depicted motion by spinning cups to make an short animation.
Magic Lantern Shows and Primitive short films
The Magic Lantern was made during the 1600s, They were an a lot of shows throughout the Victorian era in Europe, They've made movement slides to have the illusion of movement and various slides, They're often depicted as primitive animated short films.
Optical Toys and The Praxinoscope
They've been many optical toys have been made including toy projectors, They have short animations and also animation loops, considering as the earliest animated short films and loops also marks as primitive hand-drawn animation.
Flip books are also considered as early animated short films and early hand-drawn animation
In the 1870's, Charles-Émile Reynaud made the Praxinoscope and then the Théâtre Optique in the late 19th century, They're only 2 of them made and often considered as the world's early animated short films to be on theaters.
Animated shorts in the Silent Era and The arrival of Animation studios.
After cinematography was invented, People have started making silent animated short films, They've been made as independent animated short films before the animation industry.
One of the fully animated short films to be made in the silent era is Fantasmagorie, it is the considered to be the early animated short to be shoot on 2's, Even the animation looks similar to that of a flip book, also marks the early animated short film to use morphing.
Winsor McCay, who is an newspaper cartoonist made animations such his adaptation of Little Nemo, Gertie The Dinosaur and the first animated using cels, The Sinking of Lusitania.
Newspaper cartoonists and the animation industry.
In the 1910's when Bray studios is founded, They've been a lot of newspaper cartoonists wanting to make animated short films, The result is rather mediocre that the animation in the shorts were very stiff and barely have any movement it felt like early motion comics.
This led to Max Fleischer to make the Rotoscope to make the animations look very realistic.
Golden age of animation and Animation units in film studios.
Okay, I'm going to make this brief, since everybody knows this already,
When sound on film was involved, It was huge success, Walt Disney made the 1928 animated short film, Steamboat Willie.
Leon Schlesinger had founded the first animation unit in the Warner Bros. Studio and Produced the first animated short film series in it's animation unit called Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies, Ex-Disney animators Hugh Harman and Rudolf Ising have the made the first short film in the series called Sinkin' in the Bathtub.
MGM Cartoons studio was involved in the 1930's, with Harman and Ising making various short film series, in 1940 William Hanna and Joseph Barbera made their animated debut in Puss gets the boot is considered as the first installment in the Tom and Jerry series, Tex Avery had move to MGM cartoons and Characters like The Wolf, Droopy and Red and other characters that he created in the animation studio.
Columbia Pictures animation studio, Screen Gems has been involved as well and Studios that aren't animation units such as Famous Studios.
They have been independent animation studios in foreign countries such as Soyuzmultfilm in Russia, Halas and Batchelor in the United Kingdom and Pannonia Film Studio in Hungary.
UPA and Decline of theatrical short films.
UPA founded during the Disney's animator strike in 1941, the Layout artist, John Hubley and his colleagues wanted to make his own animation studio and thus, it was actually founded in 1943.
Their early work was making short films for wartime governments and one of the short films that they've made the Private Snafu short,
A Few Quick Facts about Fear.
They've made various short films that are distributed by Columbia Pictures and later make the Jolly Frolics short film series, It had an unique use of Abstract colors, Thick Outlines and rather interesting concept and storytelling and yet, Limited animation.
Television became extremely popular in various households and make them of not going to the movie theater on an daily basis.
TV shows have been involved so that they can be made into episodes that last over 20 minutes than long feature length film.
A lot of animated short films have been on TV since the 1940's and Live-action short films haven't been televised on the 1950's.
However, the animation units were starting to shut down and one of them was MGM cartoons.
William Hanna and Joseph Barbera decided to make an Television animation studio by the name of Hanna-Barbera.
Seven-arts had made the final Looney Tunes shorts in the late 1960's.
Pink Panther and Short films made by Depatie-Freleng have been the last short films to be on theaters.
This led to the popularity of Film Festivals.
The Popularity of Film Festivals
There have been various film festivals and they even involved as of now.
This no info about how they got involved, but they're popular.
Independent shorts and Modern media
There have been an extremely colossal amount of Independent animated shorts and they've being made as of today.
It led the involvement of Student films, Experimental films and the Web.
As of nowadays animated shorts are made independently and showing in various video hosting sites such as Vimeo and YouTube.
All of them are made Non-Profit, however, in the extreme wide world of animation, Short films remain to be an immensely popular format in animation.
