Animation History - The silent Era

The silent Era

Animation developed into the silent era. The 20th century began the showing of cartoons theatrically. This happened in France and the US more than anywhere else.  Bray Studios made one of the biggest impacts. During 1906 the one of the first stop motion animations was made using photography, this style of animation focused more on funny faces.

Gertie the dinosaur (1914) was another prim example of silent animation. This animation was done using live action and mixing it with animation. This animation was done in front of an audience, and had a man stood in front of the animation so that he could interact with the animation. This animation differs from the last as this one as it used more appealing characters, so that it could be more of a family orientated animation.

1919 to 1930 brought on animations such as Felix the cat and steamboat willie. These animations contained music and sound effects, to create the atmosphere, and if dialog was used it was usually done in some form of gibberish sound, or the animation gave some form of written dialog.

As you can see both have similarity's, but both where made at different times, the Felix animation was realised in 1919, where as steamboat willie was realised in 1928, 9 years later, after the realise of the Felix animation.