Animation through the years.

In todays blog i'm going to talk about animation within the years of 1960+1970s and how animation evolved through the years to todays animation.

List of animation which will be mentioned in this blog.

1. The Flintstones.
2. Topcat
3. Wacky Races
4. Scooby Doo
5. Yogi Bear
6. The Jetstons
7. The magic roundabout
8. Pink Panther
9. Fraggle Rock Animation
10. Captain Caveman

The Flintstons

The Flintstones was first aired on Tv around September 1960, it was created by he Hanna-Barbera production ran for six seasons and is still a part of our pop culture and it's one of many peoples animated cartoons.

Topcat

Top cat, was an animation piece which was created by the same people who created The flintstons, Top cat was first aired around the 1961 and it only ran for one season on the ABC network.

Top Cat - Episode List

• Here’s the list of the Top Cat episodes. Each episode is followed by its air date.
• Hawaii Here We Come (September 27, 1661) 
• Maharajah of Pookajee (October 4, 1961)
• All that Jazz (October 11, 1961)
• The $1,000,000 Derby (October 18, 1961)
• The Violin Player (October 25, 1961)
• The Missing Heir (November 1, 1961)
• Top Cat Falls In Love (November 8, 1961)
• A Visit From Mother (November 15, 1961)
• Naked Town (November 22, 1961)
• Sergeant Top Cat (November 29, 1961)
• Choo-Choo's Romance (December 6, 1961)
• The Unscratchables (December 13, 1961)
• Rafeefleas (December 20, 1961)
• The Tycoon (December 27, 1961)
• The Long Hot Winter (January 3, 1962)
• The Case of the Absent Anteater (January 10, 1962)
• T.C. Minds the Baby (January 17, 1962)
• Farewell, Mr. Dibble (January 24, 1962)
• The Grand Tour (January 31, 1962)
• The Golden Fleecing (February 7, 1962)
• Space Monkey (February 14, 1962)
• The Late T.C. (February 21, 1962)
• Dibble's Birthday (February 28, 1962)
• Choo-Choo Goes Ga-Ga (March 7, 1962)
• King for a Day (March 14, 1962)
• The Con Men (March 21, 1962)
• Dibble Breaks the Record (March 28, 1962)
• Dibble Sings Again (April 4, 1962)
• Griswald (April 11, 1962)

Dibble's Double (April 18, 1962)

Pink Panther

The first Pink panther cartoons was aired on NBV around the fall of 1969, it was aired as "the Pink Panther show", the Pink panther show featured no voice, even though the P-Panther never speaks however he does make sounds for example , (The hand is pinker then the eye) has him scream ib pain or in Super Pink he makes "Judo sounds as he approches some villains.

Scooby Doo...

Scooby Doo was created created and aired around the 1970 and 1980s , it was usually shown on saturday morning. The animation cartoon is about a Scooby who spends each episodes hunting ghosts with four of his human friends, that including the always hungry Shaggy, the Brainy Velma, Fred and the beautiful Daphne. The group drive around in a van called the Mystery Machine. In 2002 a feature film was released with a computer generated Scooby cavorting with live action cast including Sarah Michele Gellar as Daphne, Freddie Prinze Jr as Fred and Mathew Lillard as Shaggy. The film was a hit and a sequel Scooby Doo2 Monsters Unleashed , was released in 2004

Yogi Bear

Yogi Bear was first realised as a segment of THe HUckleberry Hound Showaround 1958, but Yogi Bear became popular and was given his very own show, Yougi Bear not only had his own show, but also Starred in many different programs such as in the Laff-a-Lympics. in around 2009 Warner bros announced a live -action CGI animated Yogi bear film will be made.

Characters.
Yogi Bear:- The main character that quates himself as "smarter than the average bear".He steals picnic baskets because of the goodies inside.
BOO.BOO -Yogi's sidekick and best friend that trys to stop Yogi from stealing picnic baskets, but he is always ignored.He has problems with potaoes, as stated in the trailer. He usally eats the goodies in the picnic baskets.
Ranger Smith -The park ranger that is often annoyed by Yogi.
Cindy- Yogi's girlfriend, even though Yogi is usually unaware.
Scare bear -Yogi's companion, a small fuzzy bear who is afraid of almost everything.

Captain Caveman

Captain Cavman was one of Hanna Barberas cartoons, Captain Caveman was a caveman who was frozen in ice and was brought back to life in the modern age and fights crime and injustice with the aid of his ban of mainly female friends. captain caveman was produced by Hanna Barbera Production around september 1977 and it was aired on ABC.

The Jetstons

The Jetstons was first aired around september 1962, the show only lasted one season which was only 24 episodes, even though more eposiodes were produced around 1980s but it was the first 24 eposiode that really stands out in the eyes of people.
Fraggle Rock Animation

The Fraggle Rock,, the animated series was first aired on NBCs as part of they Saturday morning lineup. The fraggle Rock took place under a house of human being DOc, The fragg;les were a playful bunch.

The story so far... The Magic Roundabout started off in 1963 as a French TV series for children, created by stop-motion animator Serge Danot. A little girl called Florence and her friends meet Zebedee, a boxless jack-in-a-box, and a bevy of talking animals, notably Dougal, a sarcastic low-slung dog, and Brian,  Their friends included Dylan, a dopey rabbit, Ermintrude,  Mr MacHenry the gardener and Mr Rusty who runs the magic roundabout itself. For years they had surreal, low octane adventures together in the magic garden, with Florence in no hurry to leave and go home. It was all made using stop-motion animated figures moving around a sparsely decorated white limbo that represented the garden.



Animation between 1930s and 1950s.

Disney.

Disney is known to be the first person to ever create a full length cartoon, Disney's first full length cel-animation was snow white which he created it around December 21s 1931, Snow white was the first animated feature film produced in America, the first which was produced in colour and the first to be considered a Walt Disney Animated classic.

Pinocchio was the second film in the Walt Disney classics.

Fleischer Brothers

The Fleischer brothers were two American producers of animated cartoons featuring such characters as Betty Boop and Popeye. Producer Max Fleischer born July 19, 1883, Vienna, Austria—died Sept. 11, 1972, Woodland Hills, and director Dave Fleischer born July 14, 1894, New York, N.Y.,died June 25, 1979, Hollywood, Calif, were considered Walt Disney’s main rivals in the 1930s.

Art Clokey

Art Clokey is best known for creating Gumby, the green clay Charactor with his horse friend Pokey. Clokey created Gumby as a student project , but then it lead to him making shorts eposiods for the Howdy Doody Show.

Famous Animators throughout History!!

In this blog I will be reviewing some of the most famous animators in history, the people who brought animation to our screen.

• Georges Méliès
• Windsor McCay
• Lotte `Reiniger
• Walt Disney.

                                                     Georges Méliès

george Melies was a filmmaker and illusionist, he was born in paris, birth name was Maries-George Jean Melies, for an early age Melies he showed a particular interest in arts which led, as a boy, to a place at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris where Melies showed interest in stage design and puppetry. In 1884, Melies continued his studies abroad, in London at the request of his parents- they insisted he learn English after wich they intended him to work at his father's footwear business, while in London , Melies developed a keen interest in stage arts and conjury. after witnessing the work of Maskelyne and Cook.

When he returned to Paris from London Melies started work at his fathers factory and through time he took over when his father retired, In which his position meant he was able to raise enough money to buy the famous Theater Robert Houdin when it was put up for sale around 1888. After buying the theatre Melies started to work full time as a theatrical showman whose performances revolved around magic and illusionist techniques which he studies while in London as well as a working on his own tricks and illusions.

When the Lumiere Brothers unveiled their Cinematography to the public in December 1895 Melies was one of the member of the audience, what he saw had a massive effect upon him, after the show Melies wen't to the Lumiere Brothers with a view to buy their machine, but they him down.

Melies became determined to invesigate moving pictures, Melies wen't to Robert Paul in London and viewed his camera, projector buliding his own, soon after that. Melies was able to present his first film on April 1896, 

One of the early works of Melies.

A colour piece which was done by Melies, This piece was coloured by hand frame by frame.
Winsor McCay

Winsor McCay was born in Canada on 1867, McCay has an interst in drawing from a very young age, he was born to a real estate agent father who encouraged him to become a businessman, Unkonwn to his parents, he worked as an portrait artist in a museum located in Detroit while attending business colletge. The meusum was popular form of entertainment in the 1800's where people could view carnival type acts and freak shows and other types of entertainment.

  Little Nemo was done by Winsor McCay around 96 years ago





Gertie the dinosour.