Gertie The Dinosaur (1914)

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[@Sososaure]

I love her personality, she’s a funny cartoon character, disobedient, stubborn and greedy… 😂 🦕

[@dayveecarrothers7797]

My, what a wonderful cartoon!!!! Gertie is a real sweetie. Such ingenuity for 1914!!! Kudos!!

[@Gohan260_Offical]

Love how this changed cartoons forever after he discovered you could draw pictures and flip them to make animation😊

[@holdmyberyl]

This is our lesson in our Computer subject today... Evolution of Animation, by searching this Clip

[@omestalgia728]

“Are you fibbing to me?”
Wow. Our language has changed drastically over the last century!

[@thealmightyaku-4153]

Depends where you live. In Australia, we still tell kids "Don't tell fibs!"

[@laylajackson276]

Ik I'm rlly late, but we say that in England

[@Darkscenes-jp4ge]

No one is still alive to remember this show when it first aired on tv

[@nopenope1186]

There was no tv then

[@Darkscenes-jp4ge]

@@nopenope1186 Or in this case cinema's

[@nopenope1186]

@@Darkscenes-jp4ge that I can believe

[@Darkscenes-jp4ge]

@@nopenope1186 They Most likely did show it on tv too 20 years later

[@nopenope1186]

@@Darkscenes-jp4ge in 1934 they didn’t really have tv either

[@acmelka]

Windsor McKay traveled with this film and put on a show speaking to Gertie. Giving the instructions verbal in the theater, pretending to interact with the cartoon. People loved it

[@tnaoro]

4:22 famous moment

[@frozenturtlefarts1025]

Gertie is one sassy lady

[@CrunchyStingray]

When your mom takes away your phone because your on it too much during quarantine. 5:50

[@jckoibra2662]

Lol

[@garfeldi_gaming]

0:41 babies on the plane

[@aputridpileofb-movies6542]

Mccay may have been influenced by the art of T.S. Sullivant, several of his prehistoric-setting drawings feature a similar to Gertie dinosaur.

[@AvitalShtap]

YES!!! With music! Thank you!

[@sezlinc4980]

This was made when the very first Model T was invented...

[@BlockheadBlocks]

SEZLINC, the first Ford model T was produced in 1908, so this was made 6 years after the model T first rolled off the assembly line

[@jrivoldi28]

Here you can see where the term "cartoon" comes from.
From the Italian cartone or from the French carton, which mean "carboard", where they mede the drawings.

[@superpokemonbros.9441]

Did this film come with a musical score or is the music that plays not related to film at all?

[@Hannah_and_Marc]

This isn't copyrighted, right? I need to use 10 secs of this for a college project! Pls let me know if that's ok. Kind regards

[@Hannah_and_Marc]

McCay, the creator of this movie died over 70 years ago so the copyright should be expired

[@IBrowseThisWebsite]

It's before 1923, it's fine.

[@bluebreakfastegg3184]

@@Hannah_and_Marc why did you answer your own question?

[@Snow-Stuffz]

@@bluebreakfastegg3184 LOL he did

[@dyerseve07]

@@Snow-Stuffz I think he was responding to someone whose account got deleted.

[@tarlostewproductions7336]

5:50 When The Boss Got You Fired For No Reason!

[@erickrosas865]

5:50 when my mom cry because I’m gone myself to waiting bus

[@aymuammosmiom4091]

This is better than The Land Before Time...

[@seanagulan9481]

This inspired Max Fleischer, Walter Lance and Walt Disney

[@Austro5678]

This isn't the original music but probably a later release with sound

[@jcraw722]

Thanks I'm trying to find the track from the HBO doc: Before Mickey and I thought i was going crazy.
If you happen to know the og artist I can't find it.

[@Austro5678]

Sadly i don't

[@Lucius1958]

The film was originally used in McCay's vaudeville act, where he interacted with the image on the screen. At the end, he would walk offstage, and reappear onscreen in the animation.

[@Austro5678]

That's very interesting
Thanks for the info.

[@mburakkarakas]

First animation Vodvil(voix de ville)

[@Tom들도_좋은친구임]

Gertie Is Better Because She Has Since 1914 :)

[@marfuster818]

With this cartoon and dinosaur/s of 1914 film brute force,which of the two was the first to be released?It is a question of knowing the true appearance of a dinosaur /s in the seventh art👉🦕 / 🦖❗!

[@wilcowen6284]

This was first

[@marfuster818]

Im get wrong, the real first film with dinosaurs was Prehistoric Peeps (1905)

[@nopenope1186]

My house was 8 years old when this cartoon was made

[@silverslider562]

And this is why inspired Walt Disney lol wow

[@remediosmacapulaysasysady1862]

Gertie 좋고 재미있다

[@Alg01688]

4:39

[@weatherlightning3018]

Its satisfying to me

[@allanegleston4931]

pre cell cartoons.

[@jayceofhearts1043]

I heard scream 0:41

[@D_FlipBook]

Nah, it's probably just the phonograph needing to be cleaned, young lad.

[@tv_vision6827]

Anyone else hear a scream at 0:46

[@mig0171]

girl?

[@dyerseve07]

Yes, a female. The opposite of males.

[@Sonny-fan771]

노뮤현

[@mig0171]

creepy

[@ethanmiller6682]

Don't talk about gertie that way

[@Sososaure]

I think it’s a cute cartoon… Gertie is fun

[@marissawolff8491]

Nope, not really.