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Animation only became "for kids" in public perception when televisions became affordable and widespread. The channels needed to fill up the time when children were home and so they just dumped all the old shorts that ran in movie theaters before the feature presentation, because they were decades old and cheap, before that they were considered general entertainment for all ages. For a brief period animation was considered high art and some of Disney's cels were on display in a California museum around the late 30s.
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Enfield posted:gnarly probably remembers when they showed loony tunes in movie theators Warner Brothers originally contracted out Loony Tunes to another company before absorbing them. The man in charge of the other company gave his animators basically no oversight which is how some of the really racist Loony Tunes came into being.
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Jul 21, 2015 07:57
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Enfield posted:https://youtu.be/M2ORkIrHUbg Several women were allowed to move from cel painting to actual animation when the men were called to serve in World War II, though when the war ended many of them were fired or forced back to cel painting.
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Jul 21, 2015 08:04
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Animation history has a surprising amount of depth despite it being a little over 100 years old, that is if you count the invention of film as the beginning and not the magic lantern some 70 years earlier.
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Jul 21, 2015 08:22
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Around 80% of the animations (and movies) made in the early 1900s have been lost because of the poor quality of the early celluloid film, and a lot of the surviving ones that have been re-photographed at a higher resolution play at an incorrect frame rate. To accurately experience the old animations the frame rate would have to be around 13-17 frames per second, it jumped around a lot before it standardized at 24 fps.
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Jul 21, 2015 08:35
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The first woman animator was a german woman named Lotte Reiniger, she made many short films based on the Grimm fairy tales and was very successful in her time. She animated using silhouetted cut out puppets on an illuminated background, inspired by 5th century China. She created a feature length animated film called The adventures of Prince Achmed 11 years before Walt Disney made Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. It used a very simple version of a multiplane camera which let the background elements move separate from the foreground elements. The cut out characters were surprising intricate, some were made of upwards of 70 pieces.
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Jul 21, 2015 17:58
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Baracula posted:A lot if effort goes into childish bullshit. Got it The very first feature length animation was made by Quirino Cristiani in Argentina. It was called The Apostle and was made with cut outs as well, but they weren't puppeted. He drew out all of the frames and cut them out to be placed on a background, because he didn't have access to transparent cels. The labor involved is staggering because he made 58,000 drawings, cut them all out, and had to place them all in the correct position corresponding to the previous frame. He had to be meticulous in bundling, labeling, and filing the drawings away so that he could have them all available when he needed them and in the right order. 
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Jul 21, 2015 19:00
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mind the walrus posted:Well that and Hanna Barbera came along and figured out how to dump loads and loads and loads of awful cheap-rear end animation onto TV quick, alongside the comics industry being effectively hamstrung into only children's content with the Comics Code Authority. The idea of cheap television for children also helped foster the import of older animated shows from the east like Astro Boy. Because there were so many episodes already made the only cost was licensing and localizing, which were loads cheaper than producing something new, and you could go extra cheap on localizing because kids are too stupid to know it's badly done.
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Jul 22, 2015 02:56
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Sometimes as a child while watching cartoons I would think "Why are there so many white people in a medium where you can literally do anything?"
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