40 Years Of Animated Cartoons PDF Download

THIS IS the Grand Daddy of all animation books. As the cover indicates.... This Is a re-creation of the original book. History indicates that this book inspired Walt Disney and other time animators. From the beginning of an article by E. G. Lutz for New Science and Invention in Pictures, Volume 8: "Making Life-Like Animated Cartoons. Process Described of Making Cartoon Figures that Move Like Living Beings. A NEW screen miracle has recently made its appearance. It is one that is distinctly different as it combines actual photographic views of reality with hand drawn animated figures. To elucidate by an episode of a recent film: The scene opens with the artist seated before his easel; he has just finisht sketching a whimsical little dwarf, a clown, or say, a comical pixie. Next, when the artist is called away from his easel this graphically rendered pen and ink pixie suddenly gives a slight tremor as if a vital force were agitating his body. Then he moves his head, shows a slight bewildering expression, bends a knee, moves his leg and wiggles his toes, and still further shows by his pleased countenance that he is surprised and delighted in being alive. Soon he tries his other limb and with a preliminary essaying of his joints walks off the paper to the cross piece of the easel along which he runs to jump to the arm of a nearby chair. Here, after first going thru a little comic pantomime as if he were about to lose his balance, he proceeds to clamber down the side of the chair to the floor. Mind you he is the work of the artists hand rendered in pen and ink and the background over which he moves is a photograph of reality, a somewhat mysterious procedure. We all of us know how the ordinary movie is made and the methods of creating animated cartoons no longer puzzle us. But how are the two combined? Continuing the recital of the pixie's adventures, we discover him, no higher than the wainscoting, running along the floor close to the wall. As he approaches a table he climbs up a leg, scrambles to the top and then getting into some sort of mischief 1s scare: and jumps to the back of a chair and then down to the floor again. His capers, as the story is prolonged, is only limited by the artist's powers of fantastic invention. One of the things in a film fantasy of this sort that is noticeably different from the ordinary animated cartoon is the quality of the action, or animation, of the figures. It will be observed that they proceed in movements somewhat naturalistic, -- photographic in fact, and yet the figures are drawn. That the aid of the camera was brought in to effect this is a safe conjecture as the movement is so life-like. This being so, the business of the remainder of this article will be in explanation of how it is accomplished. The story of a cartoon comedy is at first, of course, all planned in the manuscript, with the whole series of pantomimic action pretty in all considered in detail. We will in our explanation confine ourselves to one incident only of this action and try to describe its working out from the beginning to the termination of the work when the film is ready for screening....