A Brief History Of Animation

I made this video essay for school.

[@uzairahmad8904]

Animation is a beatiful form of art.

[@Spiritualpath02]

True

[@BenjiSavage918]

@@arolemaprarath6615 be quiet

[@tonii7395]

And a very underappreciated one at that!

[@tuulnyamdorj2381]

Ye

[@StevenProductions_OFFICIAL]

TRUE 1000000% FALSE 0000000% 👍👍👍👍👍

[@taniaarguelles1558]

god ghibli has too much power, i actually suddenly teared up with the swelling music and visuals during their clip.

[@marcelinepink]

lol I literally also teared up, they hold some of the most efectively nostalgic pieces of media ever and they don't overuse them. What a bunch of freaking genuises.

[@2cents4u]

So no mentions of Fleicher Studios, the Animation company that Walt stole cell shading techniques from? Correction: Rotoscoping.

[@lordbenpai5699]

you watched game theory didn't you

[@2cents4u]

@@lordbenpai5699 love that show but I grew up watching the classics. Also went to school for Animation and Walt Disney is the biggest crook around.

[@CB-vx8dt]

Do you mean Rotoscoping? I'm not sure what role he played in cel shading and I'm having trouble finding anything on it but I'd love to know! I'm actually writing an essay on Max Fleischer (and did a presentation on the brothers)

[@PaulNaas]

@@2cents4u Cel animation was invented by Earl Hurd and John Bray in 1915, way before either the Fleishers or Disney. If you "went to school for Animation," you should ask for your money back. :)

[@2cents4u]

@@CB-vx8dt yes! That's it. I couldn't remember the technique lol. It's too bad they didn't have enough money and had to go through Paramount. The Brothers are revolutionary in the Animation field. Disney literally copied their style after they refused to sell to them. Copied Bimbo the Dog and made Mickey Mouse (even doing crazy trippy shit like Bimbo did). Then Betty Becoming Minnie as Mickey's love interest.

[@Salena905]

These animators are geniuses. There are others like J Stuart Blackton & later on Lottie Reiniger that I've only just found out about besides all these listed on this video, & probably many more too. But they're all so gifted & imagine if they could see what an inspiration they are today. 👏🌝

[@Ray-xd8ue]

Lmao I have to make a whole fricking timeline document and it's due in an hour

[@RayPointerChannel]

You mean to say there was no animation before 1928? Then who were Emile Cohl, Winsor McCay, and Max Fleischer? Brief history or not, you really left out a lot of the foundational work that led to Disney. Then too, which aspect of animation are you focusing on, the animated cartoon, or experimental/expressionist animation? This is a confused and misdirected piece. I'd be interested in know what grade you received.

[@brokensnatched2094]

Can somebody help me find the name of an animation created a long time ago? The guy who created it was called Matt but i dont remember his last name. But it was about this man and woman that were having an affair her husband was greedy and stole money from a guy next door. The guy next door died because her husband pushed him out of the window. The woman's other man with the glasses got blamed and got thrown in jail. But he escaped with a spoon. The little town or community went searching for him her husband died and the woman and the man ran off to the bushes.

[@LoreleiMission]

"The Village" (1993) by Mark Baker. 15 minutes. It's here on KZbin, available in HD.

[@RGBtheRhinoOverwatcher]

@@LoreleiMission Cartoon Network's Dexter's Laboratory received good reviews during the original Genndy Tartakovsky run.

[@youtubemusic8260]

great video, surprised you didnt mention gertie the dinosaur.

[@Fakhrihilmi69]

Its amazing what human minds can achieve!

[@ayubshahzada]

No clips from the blockbuster White Snow (1937) and Toy Story (1995)?

[@DhoelEll]

i wanna know the resource of the video

[@emmanserrano4319]

They so patient to make animation because that time they don't have internet and gadgets

[@mrnobody2018]

I've wasted six years of nothing but trauma without being aware modern entertainment was going to suck

[@Deancorso6666]

Amazing❤️❤️

[@A.l85]

Where's The Simpsons?! ♥ ️👍

[@Gracelynn140]

Who watchedthis at school

[@goldenphonautogram6141]

How the fuck do you skip fantasmagorie or Gertie or Felix

[@phantomstrider]

This was really informative. Taking a look back at such a diverse history of animation in a mere 10 minutes was a real pleasure. Thanks for making this.

[@darkflame2554]

PhantomStrider Notice me senpai

[@watchforever1724]

You were here phantomstrider

[@L0RDK3Y]

I never expected you to be here....

[@watchforever1724]

Lordkey this comment was about a year ago

[@L0RDK3Y]

Matthew Lucas oops my mistake

[@justsomeindianwholikesanim8564]

So who’s here for an assignment?

[@ClunFunDun]

Hell no. I ain't no lame child.

[@jonfin1017]

Cuphead

[@rainAbean]

Meeeeee

[@Lewis-w4w]

Me

[@jackbergman4724]

2:06 I feel like you skipped a lot here. You skipped the creation of Felix the Cat, Gertie the Dinosaur, Plane Crazy, Out of the Inkwell, and several other big accomplishments

[@gustavogiraldo3837]

I agree with jackbergman4724

[@tessawoodyard1182]

Who’s doing this for school work, I am 👇🏻

[@TLDPicturehouse]

Between 1872 and 1928 there is lots to talk about: Émile Cohl’s “Fantasmagorie,” from 1908, (one of the first hand-drawn animated films to grace purpose built cinemas). Early animators such as Windsor McCay and Max Fleisher, who’s mix of live action and animation with Gertie the Dinosaur and Out of the Inkwell were wildly popular. Lotte Reiniger who produced The Adventures of Prince Achmed; the first feature length animated film, in 1926 definitely deserves a mention.

[@joerizalsanchez]

When I was kid, I like to watch cartoons. And now as adult, I like to watch how animations was made.

[@yinyang9770]

Ur way older then me then

[@marocomarocodoidos]

Yep i like to watch cartoons, is awesome for me feel like a kid again.

[@PurooRoy]

I like both.

[@shrimchipps470]

What about Felix the Cat?

[@melissarobinson2738]

He was like mickey

[@jenicazhafira9104]

Yeah

[@marocomarocodoidos]

@@melissarobinson2738 the silent version of mickey mouse

[@sonicfanboy3375]

@@melissarobinson2738 But he existed before Mickey

[@scoopishere7881]

The jump from 1872 to Steamboat Willie skipped over *a lot.*

[@mattbrodsky3106]

I wonder what grade you got on this. No Looney Tunes? Pixar?

[@sonicfanboy3375]

That's why it's the *brief* history of animation

[@macsnafu]

I'm afraid this is a little *too* brief, skipping over significant phases and not actually sticking to a chronological order. There was a lot of early animation on film before Steamboat Willie in 1928, for example. The very popular Felix the Cat cartoons that ran throughout the 20s, or the even earlier animation experiments by Windsor McCay and other pioneering animators. Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs came out in 1937, and set the style and tone of their later animated movies of the '40s, '50s, and '60s. Scooby Doo may have well been a good representative of the Hannah Barbara limited animation style, but it came out in 1969-1970, after several other Hannah Barbara features, like The Flinststones, The Jetsons, Top Cat, and Johnny Quest. The Flintstones started in 1960, but it was distinctive not so much for its animation as the fact that it was a prime time television show, as opposed to being shown at the movies or on Saturday mornings. Hanna Barbara's Huckleberry Hound Show started two years earlier in 1958. And what about the Fleischer studio's use of rotoscoping in the Superman cartoons in the early 40s? Or in Ralph Bakshi's animated movies in the 70s? Or if you're going to talk about stop motion animation, then why no mention of Gumby and Pokey, Art Clokey's "Claymation" style, which first appeared in 1953? And then you want to talk about animation in videos without mentioning Peter Gabriel's Sledgehammer video or A-Ha's Take On Me video, or countless others that preceded your examples? So, like I said, too brief, and you skipped over some pretty major developments in animation. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_animation

[@tateanderson7363]

Look at the fucking title

[@rance333]

macsnafu got any more sources i can read up on?

[@BevvyIsTheBest]

Wow you know you're stuff. Would be cool if you made a video on animation.

[@gloobark]

first of all where the goddamn fuck is tom & jerry

[@palomitatoro1597]

@@tateanderson7363 lmao 😂

[@OutofTouchFilm]

An absolute lifesaver for someone also looking at this subject at school. Thanks man

[@connienelson3224]

gertie the dinosaur

[@chaneth1490]

Damn my school used this video and we had to watch it for STEM

[@j.sgaming4237]

Me too dont know if im in your class or not

[@Christian-moviesCoUk]

1872 jumping to 1928, the first animation with synchronised sound? That was a huge leap 😞

[@birdwithlargefeet]

yeah, i feel like a brief mention of fantasmagorie wouldve been cool, but it says "brief" so i guess theyve gotta keep it brief

[@sonicfanboy3375]

The first animation with sound wasn't Steamboat Willie contray to belief

[@Christian-moviesCoUk]

Steamboat Willie was not photographed on the multiplane camera. Snow White was the first film to use it, and it's about giving depth to the backgrounds by animating different layers at different speeds, for example forground tracks faster than background. If you're teaching about animation this is basic stuff Will.

[@snowyangels4881]

So uh... my teacher used this video for us to summarize ... but for a moment I saw the pinned comment, I didn't know what else to say.....

[@daiamondorobotto9812]

Common Era 2nd millennium 19th century 184th decade 188th decade 20th century 193rd decade 194th decade 196th decade 197th decade 199th decade 200th decade 3rd millennium 21st century 201st decade 202nd decade

[@dabombastic]

5:53 Cute but scary faced doll

[@mdcaruan]

When people do an essay for there lecture for the teacher, when the unexpected 187 subs and 1.3K likes happen

[@FilmThought]

bro Rick and Morty isn't cel animated, they uses rigs.

[@shiro4095]

New show ladies and gentlemen it's dots dots dots moving around. *THE END*

[@watchforever1724]

Watching this in 2019 is interesting

[@melissarobinson2738]

Agreed

[@goodsoundz0724]

How about 2020?

[@watchforever1724]

Intreket good for you seeing this

[@FurlowT]

You seemed to missed some key historical events. Like Snow White being the first full length animated movie. The music video thing started much earlier than your showing there. You totally skip when Pixar came into the picture, just jumping right to studio gibly. There's quite few other key points missed that probably should have been in there instead of some the other more abstract points shown. Now, if this was a essay to show forgotten animation or over looked animation history, this would make more sense. I realize most college essays have to be done in time frame, but think about what is more important if trying to be historical data. Being showy is good, especially in animation or film schools, but still make sure the big key points are hit before abstracts get mentioned.

[@snailhuman]

Snow White was not the first feature length film

[@FurlowT]

@@snailhuman It was for ANIMATED films. There were ones with live actors. No one to that time thought a animated movie would make it. So much so, that they called Snow White "Disney's Folly" thinking it would bankrupt him. If that movie hadn't succeeded, animated movies would taken much longer to be on big screen and Disney corp would of died there due to how heavy in debt it put them.

[@snailhuman]

Yes- we are talking about animated films. The first surviving feature length animated film is from 1926 by a German woman named Lotte Reiniger. The film is called The Adventures of Prince Achmed. It is also technically the first color full length animation feature. Reiniger invented the Multi-Plane camera, which is used essentially like photoshop layers. Walt Disney is often falsely credited not only for making the first full length animation feature, but also the invention of the multi-plane camera. She made beautiful feature length animation films a decade before Disney, was a major pioneer of early animation and cinema- I highly recommend her work and wish history would give her due credit.

[@FurlowT]

@@snailhuman Sounds like another case of College courses not giving correct information... Or for what ever reason, making seem like America makes everything. Thanks for that tidbit of knowledge. That film never showed up in any my history stuff while still in school.

[@soph1111e]

You skipped Windsor McCay who invented cel animation back in the 1910's, you left out the fact that Norman Mclaren created his soundtracks by scratching directly onto the film strip (a totally new form of synthesized sound at the time), and you started talking about Bambi as if I was happening at the same time the Hannah Barbera cartoons were being made but those came out in the 60's and Bambi was released in 1942

[@gusgus1217]

Heyyy!!! What is the japanese animation at the beginning of the video???

[@anandryan3501]

ulises garces kaguya hime by hayao miyazaki

[@picklechin3061]

It's called Hen-tai

[@tobikomi5018]

Princess Kaguya

[@NeasCZ]

@Anand Ryan: Kaguya was directed by Isao Takahata, not Miyazaki.

[@Justakatto]

@kristian rikardsen cuz they're good ? idk just my opinion

[@_Marsh_]

Hats off to all animators 😇

[@fioravanti675]

Where's felix the cat?

[@abhinavkuchipudi7559]

what is the cartoon name at 04:17.... can anybody tell the name???

[@hiperistic1218]

I needed this for my school homework, thank you...

[@armandoeliceoargueta7062]

An Question?? So The Animation Stand is the Table Devise assembled fot The Filming of Animation and the Rostrum Camera is the Animation Camera used in the Television and filming movies?? Example: THE DIFFERENCE OF THE ANIMATION STAND IS A TABLE OR MACHINE TO CAPTURE THE IMAGE AND THE ROSTRUM CAMERA IS A FILMING CAMERA ?? and in what year and decade did the computer start in animation and what was the first animation studio to use the computer

[@jsunsherman72]

wow scooby doo came out in 1957. i mean, come on.

[@ronneyzamora939]

It came out in 1969, this guy made a mistake.

[@AllofTheGame]

No he was dating when Hanna Barbera started and he just used Scooby Doo as a reference as the Ruff and Ready show is obviously not as popular.

[@Spiritualpath02]

I thought it came out in the 60s

[@zambeazy]

hello! this is a really random question, but what was that sound from the beginning when the video was “going back in time”? i’ve heard the same sound on an album but i could never place it until now!

[@willseymourmurphy4664]

BECAUSE THE INTERNET

[@tracibear]

Brief? You jumped from the first moving picture camera 1870s, to Disney 1930! Skipped 60 years of animation development. NO Disney did not invent it or perfect animation. He perfected Marketing. A brief mention of Pauvre Pierrot, Charles Reynaud, Katsudo Shashin, Emil Cohl and the artists & developers in that missing 60 years would go a long way to improving this piece.

[@scratchybadger4457]

Aint the creator of Betty Boop (i forgot how to spell her na e cause its been so long so please correct me) the first one to make the first cartoon ever

[@macsnafu]

Betty Boop first appeared in 1930, well after animated cartoons had started. Fleischer Studios, the producers of Betty Boop, first got started in 1921, and the brothers Max, Joe, and Dave Fleischer apparently were doing animated cartoons as early as 1914. Which is pretty early in the history of cartoons, but they still weren't the first to do cartoons. Fantasmagorie is a 1908 French animated film by Émile Cohl. It is one of the earliest examples of traditional (hand-drawn) animation, and considered by film historians to be the first animated cartoon. However there were even earlier attempts at animation on film, even if they aren't considered to be "cartoons". en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_animation

[@hectorvega621]

@@macsnafu But they did made the first animation with sounds technically.

[@stenopushispidus2932]

what happened between 1872 and 1928 ? You have missed the most important era about the history of cartoon.

[@Wobbegongsharky]

I am surprised their wasn’t even a part for Max Fleischer the most important person in animation, but it did mention the rotoscope (his invention)

[@dhruvthepercussionmaniac546]

Forgot Fantasmagorie in 1908 and Tom and Jerry in 1940

[@seansweetjohnson69]

1:39 I mean THIS is the first movie and cinemas around the world or in the world

[@charioty9638]

Does anyone know the name of the first clip shown, of the girl running? It's really beautiful and I really wanna know who the animator is

[@virtualarmageddon6232]

Its Kaguya Hime no monogatari, it came out in 2013, lots of animators worked on it

[@christianjvi]

"Steamboat Willie" released in 1928 by Walt Disney went to the public domain on 1 Jan 2024.

[@Sky-qo3bm]

If Disney did not exist, anime would not exist too!

[@BabaaYaga888]

There was this animator, who did 16 frames per second and was very intricate and good with perspective.. I remember watching his clips called something "A Magician's.... " I don't remember him. This was probably his last project and was half done due to funding issues... Does anyone remember his name?

[@BKBLUEY]

0:02 The Dora Button

[@jaksee1465]

Man how did you not talk about my friend Totoro and not Akira?

[@FrabjousBat]

Needed to research for my film school final and this helped a ton, thank you

[@anneliesew4853]

0:10 idk why but these few second of her bursting through the doors just freaks me out

[@zayandj1667]

Would have liked to seen pete's dragon and roger rabbit as the 1st examples of cartoons in live movies

[@sonicfanboy3375]

No the first example of live action/animation hybrid was "Humourus Phases of Funny Faces"

[@piggytoon1554]

what about the 1908 French cartoon by Émile Cohl?

[@Immakingthiscuzihav2]

This was beautiful. Thank you for making this video! I learned so much!

[@tenmark7055]

Gertie the Dinosaur? More importantly, Max Fleisher rotoscope which allowed for modern animation. Feh! Hope you got an F

[@sriramnallan]

2:54

[@sriramnallan]

mickey

[@nicochan0822]

I am going to do a video essay or like a presentation about animation and I found that this video has the same purpose! Thanks for the information very much dude!! It is very clear and I have a better clue about my assignment now.

[@dabombastic]

8:31 Amazing Rotoscoping

[@StevenProductions_OFFICIAL]

1872 to 1928 between of this years is this animes?? animations for example felix the cat (1919) gertie the dinosaur (1914) the funny faces (1906) fantasmagorise(1908) little nemo (1911) the capitain and the kids (1897) trolley tourblues (1926)

[@jessraydl4883]

You skipped a lot of history from 1872 to 1928 I like Windsor Mccay also Scooby Doo was not created in 1957 it was created in 1969 also bob’s Burgers wasn’t created in 2015 it was created in 2011 and you skipped over Don Bluth and Bambi was not created in 1957 it was created in 1942

[@bobveltman]

The MultipLane camera was not invented yet in 1928, that's a mistake in the video. Also Scooby Doo was not commercially running in 1957... come on...

[@jhmcd2]

This also leaves out Thomas Edison. He was actually the one who did that horse animation, and ended up inventing Motion pictures for it. It was some bet he had with someone else and ended up inventing the film industry.

[@TheLukecottle]

*Inventing American Motion Pictures. Motion pictures were invented around the same time in France and the UK. Edison's were also individual experiences with viewers having to look into a box to view the movie (Kinetoscope) however it wasn't until the Lumière brothers in France invented the first commercially viable projector (cinématographe) which functioned as a camera, printer as well as a projector in 1895 that people were able to enjoy movies together. It's actually pretty awesome to see how inventors all got inspired around the same time and actually some of them were friends and would marvel at how the other had made improvements. It must have been such a joyous time back then with all the creations and exciting opportunities that awaited.

[@jhmcd2]

@luke blake Yeah, that time period had a lot of people effectively working on the same thing, all making a ton of inventions in a short period of time.

[@mountkilimanjaro2982]

No showing of Computer Animation from companies like Pixar and Dreamworks?

[@PurooRoy]

You didn't mention computer-generated 3D animation. Toy Story did it in 1995.

[@radekb.2953]

And where is mentioned Karel Zeman and his unique animation mixing technic, used for example in Cesta do praveku/ Journey to the Beginning of Time 1955. Weird.

[@lebowe385]

here is some news...America is not the only country to do cartoons, why is there nothing from europe/soviet union or even japan? you talk about history what about soviet cartoons from the 1920s or european ones from the same era or even older...one european cartoon is from 1908....which i just watched

[@boiwifeyasmr4U]

Bro dropeed one highly editrd and written video 8 years ago then dropped

[@mysryuza]

God Steamboat, Snow White, and Bambi give me so much nostalgia

[@qualitycontenteveryday6288]

fantasmagorie?

[@kehoe151]

woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooow

[@Blueskies2513]

Cell animation don't you mean LAYERS that are messy to organise

[@Hollowdude15]

Animation is so beautiful and amazing video man :]

[@AjayAjaykumar-vf6jk]

Wonderful animation making

[@anneliesew4853]

I hate to be THAT PERSON abut why the frick did you not include Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs?????? IT WAS LITERALLY THE FIRST ANIMATED FEATURE LENGTH FILM!!

[@TokkiJean]

El Apóstol - Quirino Cristiani - 1917 70 min

[@gracelaforge9778]

I was looking for a short history of animation to show my high school art students. This might fit the bill! I think it was a good effort but being a visual medium, would love to see it without the captions running across the images. (just a suggestion!)

[@chenzenzo]

Just completely skipped Winsor McCay, huh? 🤨

[@clairejmckeown]

Lotte Reiniger. If you don't know this name go search about her.

[@adeadchannel1909]

So much details and information, but you only got 85 subscribers!? Dude you deserve more than that.

[@Rahhh._]

Cool

[@QuizmasterLaw]

1872-1928 nothing happened lol

[@joseluisperezsantiago719]

Congratulations! It's a very nice video, brief but with a broad view of animation

[@we4803]

No pixar?

[@watchforever1724]

Fast forward to 2019 and soon were gonna enter in 2020

[@chientranhvoitoi8820]

We're on the way.

[@radiussie]

were here

[@zoeysingh16]

yup we're here and it sucks

[@watchforever1724]

Zoey Singh well in a way will have to keep ongoing

[@paolajanethrodriguez6412]

Lack looney tunes merrie melodies of the 30s 40s 50s 60s

[@CP1973_Productions]

6:57 Wallace dies

[@emptyfiden664]

thanks! u helped me with my university work

[@lars1588]

Great video. It was definitely brief, but included some lesser-mentioned artifacts.