Animation Flashcards
What is Rule 7 of Wile E. Coyote & The Road Runner?
All materials, tools, weapons, or mechanical conveniences must be obtained from the Acme corporation
Who created Filmstudie and when?
Hans Richter - 1926
What was Disneys first original character?
Oswald the lucky rabbit
What was Disneys first cartoon with color and when?
Flowers and Trees - 1932
Who was Earl Hurd, when and where did he live and what was he famous for?
American Animator - 1880-1949 - developing the process of cel animation with John Randolph Bray
Who created The Dinosaur and the Missing Link and when?
Willis O’Brien - 1915
Who created The Lost World and when?
Willis O’Brien - 1925
Who created Lichtspiel: Opus 3
Walter Ruttmann - 1924
Who created Cockaboody and when?
John Hubley & Faith Hubley - 1973
Who created Puss gets the Boot (Tom & Jerry) and when?
William Hanna & Joseph Barbera - 1940
Who was James Stuart Blackton, when and where did he live?
He was one of the first filmmakers to use the techniques of stop-motion and drawn animation and is considered a father of American animation. - 1875-1941 USA
What is Rule 2 of Wile E. Coyote & The Road Runner?
No outside force can harm the coyote - only his own ineptitude or the failure of the Acme products
Who created Composition 224 and when?
Wassily Kandinsky - 1920
What was special about Three Little Pigs?
It won an Academy Award for best animated short film
What are the tricks/techniques that Georges Méliés is famous for?
Dolly, Model Shot, Storyboard/Concept Art, Dissolve, Stop Motion, Superimposition & Stage Machinery, Split Screen, Pyrotechnics & Matte Painting
What is Rule 9 of Wile E. Coyote & The Road Runner?
The coyote is always more humilated than harmed by his failures
Who created Allegretto and when?
Oskar Fischinger - 1936-1943
Who created A Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass Double Feature and when?
John Hubley & Faith Hubley - 1966
Who created Little Nemo in Slumberland and when?
Winsor McCay - 1905-1911
Who created Neighbours and when?
Norman McLaren - 1952
Who created The Nose and when?
Claire Parker and Alexandre Alexeieff - 1963
Who created The Enchanted Drawing and when?
James Stuart Blackton - 1900
Who created Colored Rhythm and when?
Léopold Survage - 1913
Who created Motion Painting No 1 and when?
Oskar Fischinger - 1947
Who were the Fleischer Brothers and when did they live?
Max Fleischer 1883-1972 - Dave Fleischer 1894-1979
What was the first Mickey Mouse cartoon with sound and when?
Steamboat Willie - 1928
Who created the PegBar Chart?
Raoul Barré
Who invented the Thaumatrope and when?
John Ayrton Paris - 1824
Who created The Man with the Rubber Head and when?
Georges Méliés - 1901
Who said “Film does not yet exist - just a perverse anomaly of literature! The absolute film signifies the foundation of cinematic art. Film needs no audience. Film needs artists! The absolute film opens your eyes for the first time to what the camera is, can be, and wants. Object, meaning and plot are comfortable concessions to the after-dinner nap in the orchestra seats. Wake up finally!”. When?
Hans Richter - 1926
Who created The Hole and when?
John Hubley & Faith Hubley - 1962
Who created Gertie the Dinosaur and when?
Winsor McCay - 1914
Who created The Sleeping Beauty and when?
Lotte Reiniger - 1954
Who was John Randolph Bray, when and where did he live and what was he famous for?
American businessman - 1879-1978 - one of the first that distributed the labour of the animation process (more skilled -> key poses, assistants -> inbetweens)
Who created Dream of the Rarebit Fiend and when?
Winsor McCay - 1904-1925
Who created L’Oréal - Constance and when?
Claire Parker and Alexandre Alexeieff - 1958
Who created Rhythmus 21 and when?
Hans Richter - 1921
Who created Looney Tunes?
Schlesinger/Warner Cartoon
Who created the Mr Magoo theatrical shorts and when?
UPA (United Productions of America) - 1949-1959
Who created Radio Dynamics and when?
Oskar Fischinger - 1942
Who created A Puppet Drama and when?
Émile Cohl - 1908
What is Rule 4 of Wile E. Coyote & The Road Runner?
No dialogue ever, except “BEEP-BEEP!”
What was the first Mickey Mouse cartoon and when?
Plane Crazy - 1928
When did Disney create Mickey Mouse?
1928
What was Eadweard Muybridge famous for? And when did he live?
Pioneering work in photographic studies of motion, and early work in motion-picture projection. “The horse in motion”. - 1830-1904
How does limited animation reduce the production workload and costs?
Reducing the overall number of drawings, repeatedly using the same keyposes and sequences, extensive recaps of previous segments and episodes, low detail designs which allow very reduced (facial) animation, splitting up a character in different layers and only animating parts, making characters perfectly symmetrical to allow for cel reversal, using “smear animation”, replacing animation by camera techniques suggesting movement, strong emphasis on voice acting
Who created Lichtspiel: Opus 1 and when?
Walter Ruttmann - 1921
Who created Esso - The Sap of Earth and when?
Claire Parker and Alexandre Alexeieff - 1955
Who created Tarantella and when?
Mary Ellen Bute - 1940
Who created Of Starts and Men and when?
John Hubley & Faith Hubley - 1961
When was the Walt Disney Company founded and what was it first name?
1923 - Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio
Who created The Hat and when?
John Hubley & Faith Hubley - 1964
Who were the Directors of Schlesinger/Warner Cartoon?
Tex Avery, Bob Clampett, Friz Freleng, Chuck Jones, Robert McKimson, Frank Tashlin, Maurice Noble, Hugh Harman, Rudolf Ising
Who created Le Merle - The Blackbird and when?
Norman McLaren - 1958
What is Rule 8 of Wile E. Coyote & The Road Runner?
Whenever possible, make gravity the coyote’s greates enemy
Who created The Dot and The Line and when?
Chuck Jones - 1965
When did Schlesinger/Warner Cartoon produce Wile E. Coyote & The Road Runner?
1949 - 1955
Who created “Muratti Privat” Promotion and when?
Oskar Fischinger - 1934
When did Schlesinger/Warner Cartoon produce Sylvester?
1945 - 1953
Who created Tusalava and when?
Len Lye - 1929
What was special about Steamboat Willie?
It was the first cartoon with synchronized sound
Who created A Trip to the Moon and when?
Georges Méliés - 1902
What is Rule 3 of Wile E. Coyote & The Road Runner?
The coyote could stop anytime - if he were not a fanatic (Repeat: “A fanatic is one who redoubles his effort when he has forgotten his aim.”)
Who created Composition A and when?
Piet Mondrian - 1923
Who created The Grashopper and the Ant and when?
Lotte Reiniger - 1954
Who created Humorous Phases of Funny Faces and when?
James Stuart Blackton - 1906
By whome and when was Silly Symphony created?
Walt Disney - 1929
Who created The Sinking of the Lusitania and when?
Winsor McCay - 1918
Who created Gerald McBoing-Boing and when?
UPA (United Productions of America) - 1950
When did Schlesinger/Warner Cartoon produce Speedy Gonzales?
1953 - 1955
Who created the Animated Matches and when?
Arthur Melbourne-Cooper - 1899
What are other films from Disney during the golden age, when were they released?
Pinocchio 1940, Fantasia 1940, Dumbo 1941, Bambi 1942
What was Disneys first Show and when?
Alice’s Wonderland - 1923
Who look did it take to produce Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and what years?
3 years - 1934-1937
What was Disneys first feature length film and when?
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs - 1937
Who created Rhythm in Light and when?
Mary Ellen Bute - 1934
What was the first cartoon with Porky Pig and who directed it and when?
I haven’t got a Hat - Friz Freleng - 1935
Who created Dots and when?
Norman McLaren - 1940
Who invented the Praxinoscope and when?
Émile Reynaud - 1877
Who was the first major Looney Tunes start?
Porky Pig
Who was Lotte Reiniger and what was she famous for? When did she live?
She was a german film director and famous for being the foremost pioneer of silhouette animation - 1899-1981
Who are some of the famous characters that got introduced through Looney Tunes?
Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Elmer Fudd, Tweety, Sylvester, Granny, Yosemite Sam, Foghorn Leghorn, Marvin the Martian, Pepé Le Pew, Speedy Gonzales, Tasmanian Devil, Road Runner, Wile E. Coyote
Who created How a Mosquito operates and when?
Winsor McCay - 1912
Who created Fantasmagorie and when?
Émile Cohl - 1908
Who created The Winner (Excelsior Tyre Advertisment) and when?
Walter Ruttmann & Julius Pinschewer - 1922
Who created the first Kinetograph/Kinetoscope?
Thomas Alva Edison
Who created A Puppet’s Nightmare and when?
Émile Cohl - 1908
What coloring technique did Disney use for Flowers and Trees?
Technicolor
What is Rule 1 of Wile E. Coyote & The Road Runner?
The Road Runner cannot harm the coyote except by going “BEEP-BEEP!”
Who created Diagonal Symphony and when?
Viking Eggeling - 1924
Who invented Rotoscoping and when?
Max Fleischer - 1914
Who created Circles and when?
Oskar Fischinger - 1833/1834
In wich cartoons did Bux Bunny and Elmer Fudd first appear and when?
A Wild Hare (Merrie Melodies) - 1949
Who was Willis O’Brien, when and where did he live?
He was an American motion picture special effects and stop-motion animation pioneer. - 1886-1962 USA
What are some important Hanna-Barbera cartoons?
The Flintstones, The Yogi Bear Show, Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!, The Smurfs
What was Arthur Melbourne-Cooper famous for, when and where did he live?
His pioneering work in stop-motion animation. - 1874-1961 UK
In which cartoon was Daffy Duck introduced and when
Porky’s Duck Hunt - 1937
Who was Winsor McCay, when and where did he live?
He was a cartoonist and animator. - 1869-1934 USA
Who created Study No 7 and when?
Oskar Fischinger - 1931
Who created Popeye the Sailor?
Fleischer Brothers
What is Rule 6 of Wile E. Coyote & The Road Runner?
All action must be confined to the natural environment of the two characters - the southwest american desert
Who created the Dreams of Toyland and when?
Arthur Melbourne-Cooper - 1908
What is Rule 5 of Wile E. Coyote & The Road Runner?
The road runner must stay on the road - otherwise, logically, he would not be called road runner
Who created Rainbow Dance and when?
Len Lye - 1936
Who created Three Little Pigs and when?
Disney - 1933
Who created Felix the Cat?
Otto Messmer or Pat Sullivan
Who created Betty Boop?
Fleischer Brothers
Who invented the Phenakistiscope and when?
Joseph Plateau - 1833
What film was the first to use special effects? By whom and when was that film?
The Execution of Mary Stuart - Alfred C. Clark - 1895
Who is the so called “Father of the Animated Cartoon”, when and where did he live?
Émile Cohl - 1857-1938 France
Who created the 1941 Superman?
Fleischer Brothers
Who created The Adventures of Prince Achmed and when?
Lotte Reiniger - 1926
Who created Mood Contrasts and when?
Mary Ellen Bute - 1953
Who was Bud Fisher and what was he famous for?
He was a cartoonist in the USA and famous for his Mutt and Jeff comic strips that later got turned into animated short films.
Who created Night on Bald Mountain and when?
Claire Parker and Alexandre Alexeieff - 1933
What was Georges Méliés famous for, when and where did he live?
Use of special effects and pioneering work in stop-motion. - 1861-1938 France
Who created Free Radicals and when?
Len Lye - 1958
Who said “I will animate my painting, I will give it movement, I will introduce rhythm into the concrete action of my abstract painting, born of my interior life; my instrument will be the cinematographic film, this true symbol of accumulated movement. It will execute the ‘scores’ of my visions, corresponding to my state of mind in its successive phases. I am creating a new visual art in time, that of colored rhtythm and of rhythmic color.”
Léopold Survage
Who created Everybody rides the Carousel and when?
John Hubley & Faith Hubley - 1976
Who created the first Single Lens Camera?
Louis Le Prince
Whoe created the first Kodak Box Camera and when?
George Eastman - 1888
Who created Begone Dull Care and when?
Norman McLaren - 1949
Who created Color Flight and when?
Len Lye - 1938
Who created Col. Heeza Liar?
John Randolph Bray
Who created Moonbird and when?
John Hubley & Faith Hubley - 1959
Who created the first real world photo and when?
Joseph Nicéphore Niépce - 1826/1827
