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Before Mickey : the animated film, 1898-1928 / Donald Crafton ; with a new afterword.

By:

Crafton, Donald [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1993Edition: University of Chicago Press editionDescription: xx, 413 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0226116670
9780226116679

Subject(s):

Animated films -- History and criticism

DDC classification:

741.5809 23

LOC classification:

NC1765 .C7 1993

Contents:

Foreword -- Animation : myth, magic, and industry -- The secret of the haunted hotel -- From comic strip and blackboard to screen -- The first animator : Emile Cohl -- "Watch me move!" : the films of Winsor McCay -- The Henry Ford of animation : John Randolph Bray -- The animation "shops" -- Commercial animation in Europe -- Automated art -- Felix; or, Feline Felicity.

Summary: "This witty and fascinating study reminds us that there was animation before Disney: about thirty years of creativity and experimentation flourishing in such extraordinary work as Girdie the Dinosaur and Felix the Cat. Before Mickey, the first and only in-depth history of animation from 1898-1928, includes accounts of mechanical ingenuity, marketing and art. Crafton is equally adept at explaining techniques of sketching and camera work, evoking characteristic styles of such pioneering animators as Winsor McCay and Ladislas Starevitch, placing work in its social and economic context, and unraveling the aesthetic impact of specific cartoons. "Before Mickey's scholarship is quite lively and its descriptions are evocative and often funny. The history of animation coexisted with that of live-action film but has never been given as much attention."--Tim Hunter, New York Times"--Publisher description.

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Originally published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c1982.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 381-395) and index.

"This witty and fascinating study reminds us that there was animation before Disney: about thirty years of creativity and experimentation flourishing in such extraordinary work as Girdie the Dinosaur and Felix the Cat. Before Mickey, the first and only in-depth history of animation from 1898-1928, includes accounts of mechanical ingenuity, marketing and art. Crafton is equally adept at explaining techniques of sketching and camera work, evoking characteristic styles of such pioneering animators as Winsor McCay and Ladislas Starevitch, placing work in its social and economic context, and unraveling the aesthetic impact of specific cartoons. "Before Mickey's scholarship is quite lively and its descriptions are evocative and often funny. The history of animation coexisted with that of live-action film but has never been given as much attention."--Tim Hunter, New York Times"--Publisher description.

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