Animation: 1960s-1970s

Scooby Doo

Scooby-Doo is an American animated cartoon. Several animated television series were produced from around 1969 to the present day. Scooby-Doo was created for Hanna- Barbera Productions by the writers; Joe Ruby, Ken Spears in 1969. The series focused on four teenagers and their dog. The characters were: Fred Jones, Daphne Blake, Velma Dinkley and Norville 'Shaggy' Rogers and their talking Great Dane Scooby-Doo.

Bagpuss:

Bagpuss is a UK children's television series that was created by Peter Firmin and Oliver Postgate from February 1974 to May 1974. There has only been 13 episodes made but are often repeated in the UK. The creators of this use stop-frame animation to bring the characters (objects/toys) to life.

Postman Pat:

Postman Pat is a British stop-motion animated children's television series, this was first produced by a company called Woodland Animations. The first series which consisted of 13 episodes were aired on TV in 1981 on BBC1. As the first series was a massive success they followed by bringing out a second series to the screen which also consisted of 13 episodes this was aired in 1996. John Cunliffe wrote the original treatment and scripts and it was animated by Ivor Wood.

Animation: 1930s-1950s

  Walt Disney

Snow White is the first successful full-length animated feature film using cell based animation. The success that Snow White received started the Walt Disney Corporation off. It took over 100, 0000 drawings to make throughout the whole film. Snow White was premiered on December 21, 1937, followed by a nationwide release on February 4, 1938. The film made international earnings of $8 million during the initial release. Snow White set the record of highest grossing sound film at the time it was released. The popularity that the film has received led to it being re-released theatrically many times, it then was home video released during the 1990s.

Fleischer Brothers

Fleischer Studios Inc., is an American corporation which was originally an animation studio located at 1600 Broadway, New York City. It was founded in 1921 as Inkwell Studios by Brothers Max Fleischer and Dave Fleischer; they both ran the company from the start until Paramount Picture forced them to resign in April 1942. Some of their well-known feature films are Gulliver’s Travels and Mr. Bug Goes to Town.

Art Clokey

Arthur ‘Art’ Clokey is an American creator of stop motion clay animation. He began by creating a film experiment called Gumbasia which was influences by his professor in 1955. He’s best known for the characters Gumby and Pokey as they became popular faces on American Television by appearing in The Howdy Doody show. He’s also best known for Gumby: The Movie which was released in the 1990s.

Fred Quimby

Fred Quimby is an American cartoon producer, he’s best known for producing the Tom and Jerry cartoons, for which he won seven Academy Awards.

Chuck Jones

Chuck Jones is an animator, cartoon artist, screenwriter, producer and director of animated feature films. He’s best known for the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies short films that he created for the Warner Bros studio. After his career at Warner Bros he began producing new series of Tom and Jerry short films for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, he also produced Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas!

Stop Motion Research

George Meliès

This short animation piece ' The Vanishing Lady' is by George Meliès. George was a French illusionist and filmmaker in the early days of cinemas. His best known films are 'A Trip To The Moon' and 'The Impossible Voyage' these are both considered to be early science fiction films. 

Winsor McCay

This short animation piece 'Little Nemo' is by Winsor McCay. Winsor was an American cartoonist and animator. He is best known for the comic strip animation 'Little Nemo' and the short film animation 'Gertie The Dinosaur'. His career began by making posters, and illustrating for newspapers and magazines. He joined the New York times where he began making comic strips. Throughout 1911-1921 he created ten animated films.

Lotte Reiniger

This piece is a 66 minute clip from Lotte Reiniger called 'The Adventures Of Prince Achmed'. Lotte was a German silhouette animator and film director. From and early age she loved cinema, she had inspiration from George Meliès for his special effects, Paul Wegener. She enrolled at the same acting group that Wegener was in, to attract his attention she started making silhouette portraits of the actors around her, eventually she started making the title cards for Wegener's films. Lotte is best known for working with paper silhouettes for her films.

Walt Disney

This short animation piece is called 'Steamboat Willie' directed by Walt Disney. It was produced in black and white but was the first ever cartoon to contain sound effects and soundtrack. Steamboat Willie was the third of Mickey's films to be produced, but this was the first to be distributed.