It was the first week of our animation history class. Before the classes, I am not familiar with animation history. All I known was phenakistiscop and little something about early Disney.
I think the one who invent Theatre Optique is very intelligence and brave. He was doing something extremely new and difficult at that time which is involved both artistic and scientific aspect. He is definitely a hardworking and patient genius. I was a bit shocked to see him spent so much time and enthusiastic to develop skills and technology, something so bold, which was never tried before. He is definitely one of the greatest man in human history! Without him, we probably will not have so many great movies in our world.
For the early animation we had watch, I found that soundtrack, picture resolution and dialogues are really important. Honestly I couldn’t enjoy those film without these element I mentioned. But I think “Gertie the Dinosaur” is a great one! Gertie is pretty cute, the performance and the conversations are very entertaining.
By the way it was difficult to memorise so many foreigner’s name but I will try to do it more.
ANIM223 - HISTORY OF ANIMATION - FALL 2019 