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Dear person before me,
Dude, no one is going to read your 8 page essay. No one cares what you have to say. Stop trying to impress people with your knowledge of all things pointless.
For the animation... it was ok.
Reviews for "The History of Animation"
cyberen responds:
5 is average. 5 times 6 is 30!
Now who's making the pointless facts?
Incorrect information = average score.
Technically: acceptable graphics, fairly good (though not always clear) voices and good music. Some good humour too.
However, it is very misinformed and because of this I cannot give it any higher than a 6. Let us review what it got wrong.
1) The first feature-length animated film was NOT Disney's Snow White, it was "El Apóstol" (1917) by Quirino Cristiani from Argentina. All known copies of the film are thought to be lost. He also made another one in 1918 called "Sin dejar rastros" which was also lost. The first SURVIVING feature-length animated film was Lotte Reiniger's "The Adventures of Prince Achmed" (1926) from Germany. It is currently available on an excellent DVD from Image Entertainment - I own it and it's a very good movie which I can recommend buying. Another feature length animated film was made in 1931 by Ladislas Starewicz in France. This one was made with animated puppets (stop-motion) and is called "The Tale of the Fox" ("Le Roman de Renard") - if you search Google you might find some video clips from it. So, no less than FOUR feature-length animated films were made before Snow White. That's pretty inaccurate.
2) The image which was shown when you said "Italy" was actually from Yuri Norstein's "Tale of Tales", which was made in the USSR in 1979 and was twice voted by a panel of international critics to be the best animated film ever made.
3) You say that the longest-running animated series is The Simpsons. This really depends on what is defined as a "series", but "Sandmännchen", for example, has been running since 1959 in Germany.
4) The first color animated film was, as far as I recall, Disney's 1932 "Flowers and Trees" (which also won an academy award).
That's what I could catch - there might be more errors. It is very obvious that this version of history pretty much ignores anything outside of America, including any animation techniques pioneered in other countries, and while you do manage to turn it into a joke it still makes for some rather glaring omissions.
So, good format, but please be more carefull in doing your research next time.
cyberen responds:
your essay skills would make Tiger_Chick jealous.
Thanks for the info, if you want to decompile my flash, edit it so the correct information is shown, and send it to my e-mail, I'll put it up here. Thanks!
awsome
i thank u sir. (wait was that colin mockary in the sun??!)
cyberen responds:
Animutation reference.
cool
I learned a thing or two. thanx for the history lesson!
cyberen responds:
life is full of lessons, young grasshopper.
pretty good
it got kinda boreing i dont know i think most people will like it
cyberen responds:
it just depends how much you like it, my dear.