Today we began our two part lecture where we learn about about Japanese Animation Around 1914, American and European comic books got introduced to Japan. This brief introduction influenced the birth of the first professional Japanese animation film being made in 1917. The Japanese anime style originated with a simple and heavily stylized drawing.
There were many masters that influenced the creation of the type of anime we know today. One master I specifically want to focus on would be Seitaro Kitayama. He was one of the early Japanese animation masters. His work was ground breaking since it was the first technical examples of commercial production anime. His movie, Momotaro, was the first internationally acclaimed cartoon that was based after a folk tale.
Yoshiro Irie, a Japanese National Film Researcher hailed him as one of the fathers of anime. Several other movies he has been accredited with include, but are not limited to, Battle of a Monkey and A Crab and Urashima Taro. Since most of his, as well as many other original works from this time, are missing I will link the short clip of Urashima Taro.
LeAnn Schmitt
ANIM223 - HISTORY OF ANIMATION - FALL 2019 