1930s-1950s Animation

Disney

Disney was at its prime with short animations but when the 1930's came Walt Disney had an idea. He wanted to create a full length film made of animation. The film itself would take 3-4 years to make and that film was snow white and the seven dwarfs. The animation was made up of 362,919 frames of coloured pictures, and took more than 1,500,000 individual ink drawings to create.

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After snow white was such a success and received oscars for best animation Disney wanted to create more animated films. The film that astonished everyone was 'Dumbo' from one specific scene where Dumbo gets drunk and starts to hallucinate about pink elephants. The use of bright colours and exciting use of cinematic animation.

Fleicher

While Disney were making their short animation they had competition from another group of animators called the fleicher brothers. The fleicher brothers are different style of animation compared to Disney, where Disney is animation for children Fleicher created for a more adult audience, which characters such as sex symbol Betty Boop and agressive sailor Popeye. The characters that we more commonly know are not the same characters that the Fleicher brothers created as they went bankrupt after trying to compete againsts Disney by creating there own animated film called "Mr bug goes to town" although the film is known for having better animation to Disney the company Sold off their Cartoons to different companies and never animated again.

Art Clokey

while most animation was created using cell animation the process of drawing onto plastic, a man called Art Clokey decided to make animation from plastercine. He created the character Gumby in 1955 till 1982.  Clokeys first animation called 'Gumbasia' lasted 3 minutes long and was made up of strange lumps of clay moving around to the Disney music fantasia.

TV cartoons in the 1950's

The 1950's was a very exciting time for animation, with animation making films it was now time for TV to introduce animation. Many well known cartoons that we have watched in our childhood were some of the first shows shown in the 50's. Foghorn Leghorn, Looney Tunes, Woody Woodpecker and Merry Melody.