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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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. 👏🌝
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)
@@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. :)
@@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.
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?
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!)
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 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.
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.
@@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.
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
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.
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
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!
Good video, but you forgot a few animations before Steamboat Willie. Such as: - Humorous Phases of Funny Faces (1906) - "Fantasmagorie" (1908) - Max Fleisher's animations (1920s) - The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926) I'm sure other comments have covered these, but anyway there you go.
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.
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.
*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.
@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.
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.
Good effort for a college project. But there are too many gaps, as others (including myself 2 years ago) have noted: No silent film animation, no Warner, or Fleischer, or George Pal, or Ray Harryhausem. I know it's called "brief" but then don't include Bob's Burgers, instead use The Simpsons to represent current TV animation that uses Toonboom. Plus some facts are incorrect: Len Lye's film was not rotoscoped, it is processed live footage. Yellow Submarine was not commissioned by the Beatles, in fact they didn't want anything to do with it, which is why they don't provide the voices (they finally agreed to appear in the end once they saw how good it was). Also the film doesn't use direct animation.
I don't believe for a second that this came out of the 1800. Animation was definitely already discovered and mastered in the society that was destroyed before ours..
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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.
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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.
When I was kid, I like to watch cartoons. And now as adult, I like to watch how animations was made.
Ur way older then me then
Yep i like to watch cartoons, is awesome for me feel like a kid again.
I like both.
An absolute lifesaver for someone also looking at this subject at school. Thanks man
god ghibli has too much power, i actually suddenly teared up with the swelling music and visuals during their clip.
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.
The jump from 1872 to Steamboat Willie skipped over *a lot.*
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
Look at the fucking title
macsnafu got any more sources i can read up on?
Wow you know you're stuff. Would be cool if you made a video on animation.
first of all where the goddamn fuck is tom & jerry
@@tateanderson7363 lmao 😂
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.
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.
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. 👏🌝
Needed to research for my film school final and this helped a ton, thank you
Lmao I have to make a whole fricking timeline document and it's due in an hour
So no mentions of Fleicher Studios, the Animation company that Walt stole cell shading techniques from?
Correction: Rotoscoping.
you watched game theory didn't you
@@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.
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)
@@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. :)
@@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.
This was beautiful. Thank you for making this video! I learned so much!
So much details and information, but you only got 85 subscribers!? Dude you deserve more than that.
Who’s doing this for school work, I am
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1872 jumping to 1928, the first animation with synchronised sound? That was a huge leap 😞
yeah, i feel like a brief mention of fantasmagorie wouldve been cool, but it says "brief" so i guess theyve gotta keep it brief
The first animation with sound wasn't Steamboat Willie contray to belief
Congratulations! It's a very nice video, brief but with a broad view of animation
I needed this for my school homework, thank you...
Great video. It was definitely brief, but included some lesser-mentioned artifacts.
Animation is so beautiful and amazing video man :]
Hats off to all animators 😇
0:10 idk why but these few second of her bursting through the doors just freaks me out
8:31 Amazing Rotoscoping
Damn my school used this video and we had to watch it for STEM
Me too dont know if im in your class or not
God Steamboat, Snow White, and Bambi give me so much nostalgia
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)
5:53 Cute but scary faced doll
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?
What about Felix the Cat?
He was like mickey
Yeah
@@melissarobinson2738 the silent version of mickey mouse
@@melissarobinson2738 But he existed before Mickey
Its amazing what human minds can achieve!
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!)
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.
Snow White was not the first feature length film
@@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.
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.
@@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.
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"Steamboat Willie" released in 1928 by Walt Disney went to the public domain on 1 Jan 2024.
Watching this in 2019 is interesting
Agreed
How about 2020?
Intreket good for you seeing this
Very informative video. Thanks
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
This video is very helpful! Well done!
i'm going to watch a bunch of animations
gertie the dinosaur
I wonder what grade you got on this.
No Looney Tunes? Pixar?
That's why it's the *brief* history of animation
New show ladies and gentlemen it's dots dots dots moving around.
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You put work into this video man :]
Thank you it's verry helpful for me.❤
great video, surprised you didnt mention gertie the dinosaur.
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.
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.....
Fantastic video!
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
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!
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what is the animation in the beginning with the woman running?
Would have liked to seen pete's dragon and roger rabbit as the 1st examples of cartoons in live movies
No the first example of live action/animation hybrid was "Humourus Phases of Funny Faces"
Nice video! Well done.
So who’s here for an assignment?
Hell no. I ain't no lame child.
thanks! u helped me with my university work
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
Its Kaguya Hime no monogatari, it came out in 2013, lots of animators worked on it
what about the 1908 French cartoon by Émile Cohl?
Man how did you not talk about my friend Totoro and not Akira?
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What is the japanese animation at the beginning of the video???
ulises garces kaguya hime by hayao miyazaki
It's called Hen-tai
Princess Kaguya
@Anand Ryan: Kaguya was directed by Isao Takahata, not Miyazaki.
@kristian rikardsen cuz they're good ? idk just my opinion
Rainbow dance was battle tendency op and Smoke weed guy
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1:39 I mean THIS is the first movie and cinemas around the world or in the world
Good video, but you forgot a few animations before Steamboat Willie.
Such as:
- Humorous Phases of Funny Faces (1906)
- "Fantasmagorie" (1908)
- Max Fleisher's animations (1920s)
- The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926)
I'm sure other comments have covered these, but anyway there you go.
"Brief"
No clips from the blockbuster White Snow (1937) and Toy Story (1995)?
what is the cartoon name at 04:17.... can anybody tell the name???
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.
"The Village" (1993) by Mark Baker. 15 minutes. It's here on CZcams, available in HD.
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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.
*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.
@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.
When people do an essay for there lecture for the teacher, when the unexpected 187 subs and 1.3K likes happen
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.
Good effort for a college project. But there are too many gaps, as others (including myself 2 years ago) have noted: No silent film animation, no Warner, or Fleischer, or George Pal, or Ray Harryhausem. I know it's called "brief" but then don't include Bob's Burgers, instead use The Simpsons to represent current TV animation that uses Toonboom. Plus some facts are incorrect:
Len Lye's film was not rotoscoped, it is processed live footage. Yellow Submarine was not commissioned by the Beatles, in fact they didn't want anything to do with it, which is why they don't provide the voices (they finally agreed to appear in the end once they saw how good it was). Also the film doesn't use direct animation.
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too brief but gets aceoss multiple styles and processes :)
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Thanks, really helped
The first cartoon was actually in France in 1908 called “Fantasmagorie” by French Emile Cohl
But, Pauvre Pierrot in 18th century?
Pankaj Bannerjee the 1800th’s was when it was being made but not the first moving cartoon
Pankaj Bannerjee it when It was invented
@@watchforever1724 It was made in 1908, not in the 18th Century.
@@mrkerthemrker6124 yeah I know
this was really helpful
I don't believe for a second that this came out of the 1800.
Animation was definitely already discovered and mastered in the society that was destroyed before ours..
why wasn't max flesher credited for rotoscope?
Nice video.
0:06 id? What is the movie? Please ❤
They so patient to make animation because that time they don't have internet and gadgets
1:43 the first cinema
could u please give me the article about this one? please
i wanna know the resource of the video
Wow, it's crazy to me that 'My Neighbour Totoro' came out the same year as Svankmajer's 'Alice'.
Why?
No showing of Computer Animation from companies like Pixar and Dreamworks?
Forgot Fantasmagorie in 1908 and Tom and Jerry in 1940