Animation 1930 - 1950

Popeye made it's first public appearance on January 17th 1929, in Elzie Segar's then nine-year-old comic strip, THIMBLE THEATRE which originally revolved around Olive Oyl's family. Then in 1933 Popeye made the jump to the silver screen in a Betty Boop cartoon entitled POPEYE THE SAILOR from the Fleischer studios.
I YAM WHAT I YAM was the first cartoon in the series of POPEYE cartoons produced by the Fleischer Studios between 1933 and 1942.
Popeye has been a comic-book hero since the early 1930's, both in America and across the globe.
In the 1941 POPEYE joined the U.S Navy, with the mighty Navy the first of several war related shorts and the first time he would appear in an all-white uniform.
POPEYE has been a very successful animation and on 8th December 2009 POPEYE was featured in the Google logo to honour the anniversary of the birth of his creator. Elzie Segar

This is a short cartoon called bugs bunny barber. Bugs bunny is one of the most recognised cartoon characters. He is the leader of looney tunes, and the mascot of Warner Bros. Bugs bunny is constantly munching on carrots as his catch phase is 'Whats up Doc'? Bugs was the first cartoon character to appear on a postage stamp. The bugs bunny creators were Chunk Jones, Tex Avery, Robert Mckimson and Bob Clampett. Since 1939 Bugs Bunny has starred in more than 175 films. He first appeared in a cartoon 'a wild hare'. He appears in 'who framed Rodger rabbit' skydiving with Micky Mouse.

Tom and Jerry Animation called 'in the Hollywood bowl. Tom is conducting a symphony at the HollyWood Bowl when Jerry comes out to 'help' him. It was released in USA 16th September 1950.

A Fleischer animation called 'Betty Boop' which this particular animation is a halloween special. Its the scariest time of the year, and betty boop hosts a party with aid from a scarecrow; but an univited gorilla threatens havoc. It was released 3rd November 1933 and is in black and white.

Scooby Doo is all about a group of friends and their dog travelling around in a van solving strange and hilarious mysteries. Velma, Daphne, Scooby, Fred and Shaggy are the group of friends. Each mystery is new and unusual and involves the group stopping someone from wreaking certain havoc on the world. It was first released in 1969, and is an American Cartoon.
Scooby Doo was created by Ken Spears and Joe Ruby.

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A Fleischer animation called 'Betty Boop' which this particular animation is a halloween special. Its the scariest time of the year, and Betty Boop hosts a party with aid from a scarecrow; but an uninvited gorilla threatens havoc. It was released 3rd November 1933 and is in black and white.

Snow White was the first and by far most memorable full length animated movie from Disney Studio's, it has made history! It was first released December 1937 and has become a screen classic. The film made about $2,000,000 estimated.

An animation by Walt Disney a very clever man, this animation is about Mickey mouse from drawings and Walt Disney's idea's this great animation was created which would be used as a cartoon.

A little history about Walt Disney is that he was born 5th December 1901 in Chicago Illinois, his father was Elias Disney and mother was Flora Call Disney. Walt had very early interests in art, he would often sell drawings to neighbours to make extra money. He pursued his art career, by studying art and photography by going to McKinley High School in Chicago. Walt began to love, and appreciate nature and wildlife, and family and community, which were a large part of agrarian living. Through his father could be quite stern, and ofter there was little money, Walt was encouraged by his mother, and older brother, Roy to pursue his talents. During the fall of 1918, Disney attempted to enlist for military service. Rejected because he was under age, only sixteen years old at the time. Instead Walt joined the Red Cross and was sent overseas to France, where he spent a year driving an ambulance and chauffeuring Red Cross officials  His ambulance was covered from stem to stem, not with stock camouflage, but with Disney cartoons. Once Walt returned from France he began to pursue a career in commercial art. He started a small company called laugh - O - Grams, which eventually fell bankrupt. With his suitcase and twenty dollars Walt headed to Hollywood to start anew. After making a success of his 'Alice Comedies"Walt became a recognized Hollywood figure. On July 13, 1925 Walt married one of his first employees Lillian Bounds in Lewiston, Idaho later on they would be blessed with two daughters Diane and Sharon. In 1932 the production entitled flowers and trees (the first colour cartoon) won Walt the first of his Studios Academy Awards In 1937 he released The Old Mill the first short subject to utilize the multi plane camera technique. On December 21 1937 Snow white and the seven dwarfs the first full length animated musical feature, premiered at the Carthay Theater in Los Angeles. The film produced at the unheard cost of $1,499,000 during the depths of the Depression, the film is still considered one of the great feats and imperishable monuments of the motion picture industry. During the next five years, Walt Disney Studios completed other full-length animated classics such as pinocchio, Fantasia, Dumbo and Bambi. Walt Disneys dream of a clean, and organized amusement park came true, as Disneyland Park opened in 1955. Walt also became a television pioneer Disney began television production in 1954 and was among the first to present full colour programming with his wonderful world of colour in 1961. Walt Disney is a legend; a folk hero of the 20th century  His worldwide popularity was based upon the ideals which his name represents imagination , optimism, creation, and self made success in the American tradition. He brought us closer to the future, while telling us of the past it is certain that there will never e such as great a man as Walt Disney.

A 14 minute animation by Lotte Reiniger called Cinderella, Cinderella is a very popular animation as many films have been made since the animation was produced it was a very clever animation as it was paper images being cut out into different shapes to make the story complete.

A little history about Lotte Reiniger is that she was born 2nd July 1899 in Berlin Germany.
She died 19th June 1981in Dettenhausen, Baden-wurttemberg Germany.
She was a pioneer in silhouette cartoons who's work was based on the traditions of the oriental shadow theatre. She later went on to do some colour animation.

This clip is around 5 minutes long and is Winsor Mccay's work, it features a dinosaur considering no one knew what dinosaurs actually looked like then he went from scratch on peoples drawings of what a dinosaur looked like so it was a very popular animation and very clever.

A little history about Winsor Mccay he was born 26th September 1871, in Spring Lake, Michigan USA.
He died 26th July 1934 in Brooklyn, New York USA.
He was America's first cartoon animator.
He started of as a newspaper cartoonist, achieving great for his 'little Nemo' animation and many more.

A 3 minute clip called 'the haunted castle' by Georges Melies who was French and one of the first animators to actually produce animation work, this clip shows a haunted ghost moving about in the castle that turns into a man it envolves a lot of special effects also using smoke ect.

A little history of Georges was that he was born 8th December 1861 in Paris, France.
He died on 21th January 1938 in Paris, France.
He was a professional magician by training first saw the 'moving pictures' in 1895.
A year later he was filming and projecting his own creations. He discovered to use stop motion photography to trick visual effects.
He was the first to use fade in, fade out and the first to creative narrative films.
He made over 500 films.
Had a classic eighteenth century theatre and played out all his films there.
His death was sadly to poverty as France was in war.