Animation 1930s-1970s

Animation in the early 1930s to 1970s

Snow White - 

Snow White was first seen in 1937 which is a very long time ago, it was made by drawings and then coloured in.  Hamilton Luske who created Snow White directed her through the filming numerous movement sequences, and then the animators studied and copied the footage to enhance the realism of Snow White's animated movements. 

Snow White took approximately  4 years to compete as they had to draw, colour everything in and also think of all the movements of all the other characters. It was a long and hard process but Snow White was successful and many people have watched it. 

Snow White the movie who was produced by Walt Disney was released on the 21st of December 1937, the movie lasts for 83 minutes (1 Hour 23 Minutes). It made a whopping budget of $1,488,423 to make which is a big amount of money. 

Fleischer Brothers - 

The Fleischer Brothers where the producers of animated cartoons and created the cartoon Betty Boop, who was popular back in the 1930s when there was short movies of her that was out then. The Brothers were considered in Walt Disney's main rivals in the 1930s. They were sons of an Austrian tailor who took his family to America in 1887. They finished their first ever cartoon in 1915, they decided that Max invented the rotoscope, a time and labour saving device in which live action film frames are traced as a guide for animated action. 

Dave pro formed in a clown suit was rotoscoped into the character Ko-Ko the Clown who also starred in the 'Out Of The Inkwell' series in (1919-1929) which was produced and distributed by the Bray Studio in New York City. In 1921 they opened their own studio and added their Inkwell series with 'Song Car-Tunes) what was made in 1924-1926. A series of silent 'Bouncing Ball' sing along shorts. 

Neighbours Norman McLaren -

Neighbours is a 1952 anti-war movie by Scottish-Canadian filmmaker Norman McLaren. In French it is called (Volsins). It was produced at the National Film Board of Canada in Montreal, the movie uses the techniques known as pixilation, it uses an animation technique using live actors as stop-motion objects. Norman McLaren created the soundtrack of the movie by scratching the edge of the movie, creating various blobs, lines and also triangles which the projector as sound. 

The plot is basically just two men (Jean-Paul Ladouceur and Grant Munro) who live peacefully in a adjacent cardboard houses. When a flower blooms between their houses, they both fight to the death over the ownership of the small single flower.

The term (Pixilation) was created by Grant Munro, who had worked with McLaren on Two Bagatelles, a pair of short pixilation films made prior to Neighbours. While Neighbours is often credited as an animation very little of the film is actually animated. Most of the film is shot with variable-speed photography, usually in fast motion with also some stop frame techniques. During one sequence, the two actors appear to levitate this effect was actually achieved in stop-motion the two men kept on jumping and photos were getting took of them but only at the top of their trajectories. Under the current definition of an animated short, is unlikely that Neighbours would qualify as either a documentary short or an animated short. 

Norman McLaren followed Neighbours with twi other films using a similar combination of pixilations, live actions, variable speed photography and string-puppets.

• The first, (A Chairy Tale 1957) was  collaboration with Claude Jutra and Ravi Shankar. 
• The second (Opening Speech by Norman McLaren 1960) was made for the International Film Festival of Montreal and starred McLaren himself.

Wolf Koenig served as cameraman on the film.

Scooby Doo - 

Scooby Doo is an American animated Cartoon Franchise,


Scooby-Doo is an American animated cartoon franchise, comprising several animated television series produced from 1969 to the present day. The original series, Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!, was created for Hanna-Barbera Productions by writers Joe Ruby and Ken Spears in 1969. This Saturday-morning cartoon series featured four teenagers—Fred Jones, Daphne Blake, Velma Dinkley, and Norville "Shaggy" Rogers—and their talking brown Great Dane^[1] named Scooby-Doo, who solve mysteries involving supposedly supernatural creatures through a series of antics and missteps.^[2]