Entry 3 | Research | Silent Era film example

Gertie the Dinosaur.
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_c15oS5i5I)
 
The drawing of Gertie the Dinosaur was made by a man called Windsor McCay who was one of the pioneers of early animated characters. McCay was a cartoonist from the United States who created animations such as Dreams of the Rarebit Fiend and Little Nemo in Slumberland. He was known to had been one of the most stunning visual artists of his generation. 
Thus, in 1913 McCay began to animate "Gertie The Dinosaur". McCay enlisted the help of a young neighbor, John A. Fitzsimmons. Fitzsimmons traced the backgrounds onto rice paper, and McCay did all the drawings of Gertie. Ten thousand drawings were inked on rice paper and then mounted on cardboard for registration. By mounting them on cardboard, McCay was able to flip the drawings through a primitive machine to check his work. 
McCay premiered Gertie The Dinosaur at the Palace in Chicago on  2nd February 1914. After the premier the film received glowing reviews there, and again when he brought the act to New York. However, during a performance a stage assis- tant mistakenly angered Hearst, who then banned mention of McCay’s act from his papers. Hearst later ordered McCay to give up his comic strips and animation. Eventually McCay had to cancel his vaude- ville engagements.







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