Gertie the Dinosaur (Winsor McCay, 1914)

Gertie the Dinosaur is a 1914 animated short film by American cartoonist and animator Winsor McCay. It is the earliest animated film to feature a dinosaur. McCay first used the film before live audiences as an interactive part of his vaudeville act; the frisky, childlike Gertie did tricks at the command of her master. McCay's employer William Randolph Hearst later curtailed McCay's vaudeville activities, so McCay added a live-action introductory sequence to the film for its theatrical release. McCay abandoned a sequel, Gertie on Tour (c. 1921), after producing about a minute of footage.
Although Gertie is popularly thought to be the earliest animated film, McCay had earlier made Little Nemo (1911) and How a Mosquito Operates (1912). The American J. Stuart Blackton and the French Émile Cohl had experimented with animation even earlier; Gertie being a character with an appealing personality distinguished McCay's film from these earlier "trick films". Gertie was the first film to use animation techniques such as keyframes, registration marks, tracing paper, the Mutoscope action viewer, and animation loops. It influenced the next generation of animators such as the Fleischer brothers, Otto Messmer, Paul Terry, and Walt Disney. John Randolph Bray unsuccessfully tried to patent many of McCay's animation techniques and is said to have been behind a plagiarized version of Gertie that appeared a year or two after the original. Gertie is the best preserved of McCay's films-some of which have been lost or survive only in fragments-and has been preserved in the U.S. Library of Congress' National Film Registry as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
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Music:
Beethoven ‒ Sonata No. 3 in C Major, Op. 2 No. 3 - I. Allegro con brio & IV. Allegro assai (Paul Pitman, Musopen)

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And with this, 109 years ago an entire artistic industry was born. The power of this dino, I tell you.

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Gertie the Dinosaur is my comfort character

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a friend of mine introduced me to windsor mcay many years ago via gertie . we were talking on old yahoo messenger and he was on his way to a classic cartoon festival at the time .

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A delightful relic from the world of animation! Thanks much for posting.

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It's rather appropriate that one of the oldest animated films is of a dinosaur.

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The birth of Personality animation

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I wonder what animals he studied for Gertie's movements

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