Before Mickey The Animated Film 1898-1928

Name: Before Mickey The Animated Film 1898-1928
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ISBN: 9780226116679

ISBN-10: 0226116670

ISBN-13: 9780226116679

Edition: 1993

Authors: Donald Crafton

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This witty and fascinating study reminds us that there was animation before Disney: about thirty years of creativity and experimentation flourishing in such extraordinary work as Girdie the Dinosaur and Felix the Cat. Before Mickey, the first and only in-depth history of animation from 1898-1928, includes accounts of mechanical ingenuity, marketing and art. Crafton is equally adept at explaining techniques of sketching and camera work, evoking characteristic styles of such pioneering animators as Winsor McCay and Ladislas Starevitch, placing work in its social and economic context, and unraveling the aesthetic impact of specific cartoons. "Before Mickey's scholarship is quite lively and…

Book details

List price: $41.00
Copyright year: 1993
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 12/15/1993
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 436
Size: 5.51" wide x 8.43" long x 1.14" tall
Weight: 1.144



Foreword by Otto Messmer Preface Animation: Myth, Magic, and Industry



The Secret of the Haunted Hotel



From Comic Strip and Blackboard to Screen



The First Animator: Emile Cohl



""Watch Me Move!"" The Films of Winsor McCay



The Henry Ford of Animation: John Randolph Bray



The Animation ""Shops""



Commercial Animation in Europe



Automated Art



Felix; or, Feline Felicity


Conclusion


Notes


Afterword, Errata, and Update


Selected Bibliography


Index