Gertie the Dinosaur (1914)
1914 · Animation · 13 min · dir. Winsor McCay
The greatest animal act in the world!!!
- Animation
Synopsis
Sometimes called the world's oldest cartoon (erroneously), it is still the first to be created using keyframe animation. This movie required Winsor McCay and his assistant John A. Fitzsimmons (who traced the backgrounds) to create 10,000 drawings, which they inked on rice paper and mounted on cardboard. Gertie is a dinosaur based on the Brontosaurus (nowadays known as Apatosaurus) skeleton in the American Museum of Natural History. McCay's employer, William Randolph Hearst, was displeased with…
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Details
- Director
- Winsor McCay
- Writer
- Winsor McCay
- Cinematography
- John A. Fitzsimmons
- Studio
- Vitagraph Company of America
- Released
- 1914-02-08
- Awards
- 1 win
- Running time
- 13 minutes
Cast & crew
- Winsor McCay Director
- Winsor McCay
- George McManus
- Roy L. McCardell
- Thomas A. 'Tad' Dorgan
- Tom Powers
- Robert McCay
- John Bunny
