The History of Animation:
Walt Disney
The History of Animation:
Walt Disney
In 1954 a television show on ABC was aired. This television show was a partnership
between ABC and Walt Disney. The television show was called, "Disneyland," and is currently
named, "The Wonderful World of Disney." Each episode has a run time of a hour. The series
lasted for a span of an incredible 54 years with 13 seasons, all hosted by Walt Disney.
This episode is Walt Disney talking about the evolution of animation and how the animation
techniques have changed throughout the ages.
The first part of this episode talks about how animation has been around for a very long time.
According to Walt Disney the hieroglyphs on the Egyptian walls reasembles a set of frames of
animations. He talked about how animating a drawing to make it move would have only been
"wishful thinking for the people in the 1920's,"(Walt Disney). Walt then tells us that the
concept has been around for a very long time we just never knew still paintings had the
potential of turning into moving and alive paintings. He said they made a book called "The Art of
Animation." I believe you can still find and purchases this book today. He then talks about
the people in history who helped make the dream of the animated drawing. One person who made
a huge brake through in animation, was E. Reynaud. The machine he had created needed long
slips of paper that looked like film strips. On those "film strip" he had to hand paint each motion
he wanted the character to have. With this he made a show called "Pantomimes Lumineuses." In his
life time as a showman he produced 7 other shows. He even had each one accompanied by music.
The second part of the episode was about a man by the name Winsor Mccay. He became known
for his animated show with Gerdy the Dinosaur. For his show he appeared on the stage before
his audiences and he would seem to talk to the Dinosaur. At the end of each show when it was time
to sat goodbye he would go behind the curtain, out of view from the audience. When he did so
an animated figure of himself would appear on the screen and ride out of frame on the dinosaur.
Walt goes on to talk about the first animated cartoon to ever appear in a series of short films that
were made by a man named J.R Bray. He made up the Bray's studios. Walt then talked about the
making of the silent pictures in the mid 1920's. Walt then talks about the music accompaniment
that was added to the silent pictures. Finally, he talked about the cartoons that were made with sound.
In 1949 the first silly symphony was made that the animation was made to go along with music.
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I was not able to find the third part of the episode.
The fourth and final part of the episode, showed the animation based on the painting that Walt talked
about at the very beginning of the episode. This animation was called, "The Waltz of The
Flowers," from "Fantasia."This animation was a black and white animation accompanied by
music.
Disneyland - 2.11 -
The Story of the Animated Drawing
- Part 1 of 4
Disneyland - 2.11 -
The Story of the Animated Drawing
- Part 2 of 4
Disneyland - 2.11 -
The Story of the Animated Drawing
- Part 4 of 4
