Category Archives: History of Animation

Lesson 11: videos

Bosko the Talk-Ink Kid (Hugh Harman, Rudolf Ising, 1929)

Congo Jazz (Hugh Harman, Rudolf Ising, 1930)

Lady, Play Your Mandolin! (Hugh Harman, Rudolf Ising, 1931)

Golddiggers of ‘49 (Tex Avery, 1936)

Little Red Walking Hood (Tex Avery, 1937)

Draftee Daffy (Bob Clampett, 1945)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZOlU3tatCU

Ding Dong Daddy (FrizFreleng, 1942)

What’s Opera, Doc? (Chuck Jones, 1957)

The Cat Concerto (William Hanna, Joseph Barbera, 1947)

Red Hot Riding Hood (Tex Avery, 1943)

Northwest Hounded Police (Tex Avery, 1946)

King-Size Canary (Tex Avery, 1947)

Sh-h-h-h-h (Tex Avery, 1955)

Gerald McBoingBoing (Robert Cannon, 1951)

 

Lessons 8-9: videos

Newman Laugh-O-Grams (Walt Disney, 1920-21)

Two of a Trade (Paul Terry, 1922)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyiVQ4jfBhs

Little Red Riding Hood (Walt Disney, 1922)

Alice’s Wonderland (Walt Disney, 1923)

Alice Solves the Puzzle (Walt Disney, 1925)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFGqZUTqorU

Steamboat Willie (Walt Disney, 1928)

The Skeleton Dance (Walt Disney, 1929)

Education for Death: The Making of the Nazi (Clyde Geronimi, 1943)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5eCRCzji4E

Make Mine Music (Jack Kinney et al., 1946)

Lesson 7: videos

Dream of a Rarebit Fiend (Edwin S. Porter, 1906)

Little Nemo (Winsor McCay, 1911)

How a Mosquito Operates (Winsor McCay, 1912)

Gertie (Winsor McCay, 1914)

The Sinking of the Lusitania (Winsor McCay, 1918)

The Artist’s Dream (John Randolph Bray, 1913)

Policy and Pie (Gregory La Cava, 1918)

Comin’ Thro’ the Rye (Dick Huemer, 1926)

Felix Dines and Pines (Otto Messmer, 1927)

Lesson 6: videos

Fragment of The Haunted Hotel; or, The Strange Adventures of a Traveler (Vitagraph of America, James Stuart Blackton, 1907)

L’Auberge ensorcelée (Georges Méliès, 1897)

L’Auberge du bon repos (Georges Méliès, 1903)

El hotel eléctrico (Segundo de Chomón, 1908)

The enchanted drawing (James Stuart Blackton, 1900)

Humorous Phases of Funny Faces (James Stuart Blackton, 1906)

Matches: An Appeal (Arthur Melbourne Cooper, 1899)

Fantasmagorie (Émile Cohl, 1908)

Clair de Lune Espagnol (Émile Cohl, 1909)

Le retapeur de cervelles (Émile Cohl, 1910)

Le cheveu délateur (Émile Cohl, 1911)
 

 

Lesson 5: videos

Pierre Jaquet-Droz, the writing automaton (1774)

Reconstruction of movement as suggested by some Paleolithic cave paintings

The “wheel of life”, a magic lantern slide (1871)

Pauvre Pierrot (Èmile Reynaud, 1892)

Autour d’une cabine (Èmile Reynaud, 1893)

A reconstruction of Reynaud’s show