The Golden Age of Animation

The Golden Age of Animation.

Disney

Steamboat Willie (1928) introduced Mickey Mouse and after disney released all Disney animations with sound.

The Skeleton Dance (1929)
1st in a series called Silly Symphonies.

The Three Little Pigs (1933)
Most successful of the silly symphonies

The Wise little Hen
(silly symphony)
First appearance of Donald Duck.

The Old mill

Walt Disney used the old mill to test out techniques in establishing realism in animation.

Fleischer Studios

Betty Boob & Popeye the sailor

Rotorscope: enabled animators to figures, frame by frame over filmed therefore creating more realisim.

Gullivers Travels: Use of rotaorscope.

Superman 1941

Warner Brothers

Daffy Duck

Bugs Bunny

Porky Pig

Speedy Gonzales

MGM

Puss gets the boot 1940's later became Tom and Jerry

Terrytoons

Paul Terry’s approach to cartoons was a money making exercise – churning out cheap cartoons with minimum effort and attention to detail

A distributor once told Terry he bought Terry’s films to clear the theater between features so the queues would more more quickly

Most successful cartoon was Mighty Mouse