NARRATIVE CARTOONS

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NARRATIVE CARTOONS

• CHAPTER 11 IN BUTLER

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BRIEF HISTORY
PERSISTENCE OF VISION THEORY - Roget, 1824 PRE -
MOTION PICTURES - The Zoetrope and
Praxinoscope - mid 1800s EARLY FILM - Trip to
the Moon, George Melies, 1904 Gertie The
Dinosaur - Windsor McCay, 1914 Earl Hurd -
The Cel Process, also 1914 Max Fleischer -
Rotoscoping, 1915
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2 BROAD TYPES
NATURALISM VS ABSTRACTION Naturalism Walt
Disney - Mickey Mouse, Goofy, etc Warner
Brothers - Bugs, Daffy, etc. Walter Lantz -
Woody Woodpecker Fleischer Brothers - Popeye
Bettie Boop Abstraction United Productions of
America (UPA) - Gerald McBoing
Boing (Abstract Expressionism)
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DIFFERENT METHODS
CEL - Clear Celluloid Layers STOP
MOTION - Animating inanimate objects it
includes claymation. CGI - Computer
Generated Imagery Computer Versions of
Rotoscoping, e.g The Polar Express
(Performance Capture)
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Made-For Television Cartoons 1. Program
Structure 2. Narrative Structure 3. Limited
Animation 4. Emphasis on Dialogue 5. Prosocial
Message
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Cartoon Examples
Mickey Mouse, The Opry House, 1929 Disney's
Fantasia, 1940 Bugs Bunny (Looney Tunes) Gerald
McBoing Boing, 1951 South Park Music Video
Episode The Simpsons - India Outsourcing
Episode Family Guy Site for Production Art
Purchase
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Non-Television Animation Experimental Film
Examples
Canadian Filmmaker Norman McLaren's Shorts Ralph
Bakshi - Scenes from Fritz the Cat, 1972 Short
Film On Creating The Rabbits for Wallace
Grommit Film