Happy Harmonies - "To Spring" (1936)

A sweet old animation from the Happy Harmonies Series showing how spring arrives in the earth. This 1936 cartoon in Technicolor tells us how the gnomes living deep inside the earth churns out vivid colors at the onset of Spring and pump them to the world above, thus giving a new life to the dull frozen earth. But they had to face an obstacle while trying to do this. Check out the video to see how they overcome all hindrances and cover the earth with green leaves and colorful blossoms.

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Race Riot (1929)

This is the first 'Oswald the Lucky Rabbit' cartoon released on Sept 2, 1929. It is also the first theatrical cartoon released by the Walter Lantz studio. Walter Lantz Studio was an American animation studio (1929 to 1972) and was the principal supplier of animation for the Universal Studios, now part of the media conglomerate NBC.

The story is about a race in which Oswald takes part with his horse and the funny things happening before and during the race. It has been directed by Walter Lantz. The story and animation was done by Walter Lantz, Bill Nolan and Tom Palmer while the musical score was done by Bert Fiske. It was the first score by Bert Fiske.

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Ugokie Ko Ri No Tatehiki (1933) - Japanese Classic Animation

A Japanese classic animation directed by Ikuo Oishi, one of the pioneers of Japanese animation. The title means "Fox and Asian racoon's cheat on each other". It was released in 1933. The drawing style shows the influence of Max Fleischer on early Japanese animation.

It is the story of two animals, the fox and the tanuki (Asian racoon), usually associated in Japan with trickster magic. The fox frightens away a farmer walking in the woods and then disguises himself as a samurai and makes his way to a temple. The temple is haunted by a young tanuki who also has the magical power of disguising himself into any form. The tanuki tried to frighten the fox/samurai away but all his attempts failed. He then calls his guardian and together they fought against the fox.

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Pauvre Pierrot (1892)

One of the first animated films ever made. This French animation was created by Émile Reynaud and was broadcasted in October 28, 1892 (3 years before the invention of cinema) at Musée Grévin in Paris, France, using his Théâtre Optique system - similar in principle to a modern film projector. It was shown along with his 2 other films, 'Le Clown et ses chiens' and 'Un bon bock'. The entire program was then called Luminous Pantomimes.

The film consists of 500 individually painted images. Reynaud himself was the script writer and projectionist. Although it was made earlier than the invention of cinema but it was colored and more than that - not a silent film. The musical score was done by Gaston Paulin.

The story in brief:

One night, Arlequin come to see his lover Colombine. But then Pierrot knocks at the door and Colombine and Arlequin hide. Pierrot starts singing but Arlequin scares him and the poor man goes away. (courtesy - IMDb)


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Humorous Phases of Funny Faces (1906)

The earliest animated film ever made is a silent cartoon by J. Stuart Blackton in the year 1906. J. Stuart Blackton, one of the co-founders of the Vitagraph Company was a newspaper cartoonist. It was the first animated work on standard picture film, using the single frame method and was projected at 20 frames per second. It is the earliest surviving American animated film.

The film is about a cartoonist's line drawings of two faces on a blackboard and they apparently came to life. The two faces smiled and winked and the cigar-smoking man blew smoke in the lady's face. Also, a circus clown led a small dog to jump through a hoop. It actually uses cutout animation made to look like chalk outlines.

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Fantasmagorie (1908)

The first fully animated film in history, made on modern picture film projector by Émile Cohl (Emile Eugene Jean Louis Courtet, 1857-1938), a French caricaturist of the largely-forgotten Incoherent Movement, cartoonist and animator. He is called 'The Father of the Animated Cartoon' and 'The Oldest Parisian'.

This silent animation is not a narrative but a collage of some actions performed by the main character. But the way one action leads to the other, the speedy merging of different scenes glues the eyes to the screen.

Cohl made it from February to May or June 1908.He placed each drawing on an illuminated glass plate and then traced the next drawing-with variations-on top of it until he had some 700 drawings to make this film. This created a consistent movement and continuity between the drawings. The characters look like chalkboard caricatures which was popular in those days. But Cohl filmed black lines on paper and then printing in negative, making his animations appear like chalk drawings.

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