December 31, 2019
Early animation
Here are links to the earliest cartoons in Riochard Brody’s excellent article, “Draw Stars,” in the Dec. 30, 2019 New Yorker. (Note: Racist and other stereotypes below.)
Emile Cole, Fantasmagorie, 1908, restored. (Original)
Winsor McCay, Little Nemo, 1911:
McCay, Gertie the Dinosaur, 1914:
Max and Dave Fleischer, Out of the Inkwell: The Tantalizing Fly, 1919 (remastered):
The Fleischers, Jumping Beans, 1922 (remastered):
Wallace Carlson (Bray Studios), How Cartoons Are Made, 1919:
Wallace Carlson, He resolves not to smoke, 1914:
Gregory La Cava, The Breath of a Nation, 1919:
Joseph Sunn claymation: Green Pastures, 1919:
Wallace McCutcheon’s merging of Green Pastures with live action, in The Sculptor’s Nightmare:
Howard S. Moss stop action, Mary & Gretel, part 1, 1916:
Mary & Gretel, part 2:
Walter Ruttmann’s abstract Opus 1, 1921:
Lette Reiniger’s silhouette Cinderella, 1921:
Bryant Fryer’s silhouette Follow the Swallow, 1927:
