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Exam 1 Flashcards

1
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animation

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movement created through a series of drawings

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2
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magic lantern

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1645, four components: box, light source, curved mirror, lens

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persistence of vision

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1824, explained why our eyes perceive movement in static images; after image effect: image carries over in our brains, passive phenomenon, myth

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4
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short-range apparent motion

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the illusion of animation

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5
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kinograph

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1868, flip book

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zoetrope

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cylinder with slits that spins

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kinetoscope

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1894, invented by Thomas Edison, a way to view 13 seconds of celluloid film, shown in nickelodeon galleries

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vitoscope

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1895, early film projector, Thomas Armant

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9
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chalk talks and lightning sketches

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James Stuart Blackton, metamorphic drawings on a vaudeville stage.

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10
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“Living Blackboard”

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Emile Cohl, Fantasmagorie, first animated cartoon, drawn on rice-paper and photographed with negative process

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Little Nemo in Slumberland

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1911, WInsor McCay comics, changed layout of traditional comic, became first animated American cartoon

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12
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mutascope

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Winsor McCay, used to check movement; giant roladex;

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13
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cycling

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reusing sequences of drawings instead of redrawing them to save time

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14
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peg system

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used to align animators’ drawings, each animator’s desk had pegs in same place

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15
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rotoscope

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allowed animators to trace an image frame by frame, later seen as a crutch

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Felix the Cat

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919 Otto Messmer; financially and artistically successful; fine art background, cartoon foreground; studied body language of Charlie Chaplin to give Felix personalized body movements

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17
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Laugh-O-Gram Films

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first shorts animated by Walt Disney; gave Walt local publicity

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18
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Alice Comedies

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1924-1927; series of shorts featuring a live action girl in an animated world; signed 1 year contract with MJ Winkler

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model sheet

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broke characters down into components; used as a guide; Walt saw these as a crutch

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Oswald the Lucky Rabbit

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1927; first character designed by Ub and Walt collectively; Walt lost rights to Oswald when he left Charles Mintz

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21
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Nine Old Men

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Walt Disney’s core animators; Les Clark

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The Jazz Singer

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1927, First sound film

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23
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exposure sheet

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Details dialog and music; each line equals one frame; every 4 frames something corresponded with the music; used in Steamboat Willie

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Silly Symphonies

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1929; based on music, story is secondary; entirely new experience for the audience; training ground for artists to experiment

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storyboard

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1931; invented by Web Smith; 4x8 bulletin board; allowed edits to be made before animation began

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inspirational sketch artist

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artists that were hired to create artwork to capture the feel of the current production; used during entire process

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27
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Émile Reynaud

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Inventor of praxinoscope

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28
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Eadweard Muybridge

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hired by Stanford to photograph horses; author of Locomotion of Animals/Humans

29
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George Eastman

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Inventor of celluloid

30
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Louis and Auguste Lumière

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Invented the movie projector

31
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James Stuart Blackton

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Father of Animation, first American Cartoon, “Numerous Phases of Humorous Faces”

32
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Emile Cohl

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First animated cartoon, “Fantasmagorie,” The Living Blackboard

33
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Winsor McCay

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Little Nemo in Slumberland, Gertie the Dinosaur

34
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Max and David Fleischer

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Out of the Inkwell Studios, owned Betty Boop and Popeye

35
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Otto Messmer

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Created Felix the Cat, didn’t take credit

36
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Pat Sullivan

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Distributed Felix, took credit as creator

37
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Charlie Chaplin

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Silent Era actor, Little Tramp character

38
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Roy Disney

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Walt’s brother, managed business aspects of studio

39
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Buster Keaton

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another actor, pantomime

40
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Ub Iwerks

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Best animator of his time, first of Walt’s hired animators, action animator, The Skeleton Dance

41
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M.J. Winkler

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distributor for the Alice series

42
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Rollin “Ham” Hamilton

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first animator hired by Disney, Alice series

43
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Charles Mintz

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Winkler’s husband, butted heads with Disney, annoyed Disney to the point of selling him the rights to Oswald

44
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Leslie “Les” Clark

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animator, debut in The Skeleton Dance, benefitted from life drawing classes

45
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Pat Powers

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Distributed Mickey

46
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Norman “Fergie” Ferguson

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Animator, acting animator, Wolf in Three Little Pigs

47
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Carl Stalling

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composer for The Skeleton Dance

48
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Don Graham

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Taught night classes at Disney Studios

49
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Webb Smith

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Invented the storyboard

50
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Albert Hurter

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animator, one of the oldest on staff, rheumatic heart disease, classically trained in European art

51
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Dick Lundy

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Animator, drew dance sequence of Three Little Pigs

52
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Fred Moore

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Animator, did character animation in Three Little Pigs

53
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Art Babbitt

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Animator, did remaining scenes in Three Little Pigs, developed Goofy

54
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The Locomotion of Animals Date

55
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The Locomotion of Humans

Walt Disney born

56
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Numerous Phases of Humourous Faces

  • animator
  • year
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James Stuart Blackton
1906
First American Film

57
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Fantasmagorie

  • animator
  • Year
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Emile Cohl
1908
First Cartoon

58
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Little Nemo in Slumberland

  • animator
  • year
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Winsor McCay
1911
First American Cartoon

59
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Gertie the Dinosaur

  • animator
  • year
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Winsor McCay

1914

60
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Alice’s Wonderland

  • animator
  • year
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Disney Brother’s Studio

1923

61
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-

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Walt Disney Studio

1927

62
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-

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Ub Iwerks

1928

63
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Story continuity sketches for Tall Timber (aka Northwoods

-date

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1927

sketch

64
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-

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Ub Iwerks, Les Clark, Wilfred Jackson

1928

65
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-

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Ub Iwerks and Les Clark

1929

66
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-

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Walt Disney Studio/ Albert Hurter

1932

67
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-

A

Dick Lundee, Fred Moore, Art Babette, Norman “Fergie” Ferguson
1933

68
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Carl Lutz

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Wrote Animated Cartoon

Art of Disney and Pixar (3 decks)

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