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24 Cards in this Set
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Winsor McCay
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Created Gertie the dinosaur in 1914, first character with personality and 3D
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Raoul Barr'e
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Founded first animation studio. Created peg system of registration.
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John Randolph Bray
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Streamlined animation process making it faster.
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Max and Dave Fleischer
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Created Betty boop, Popeye, Superman, bouncing ball for sing along, "Car-Tunes" in silent era. Competed with Diney but eventually lost. Ko-Ko the clown, cartoon in real world.
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Walter Lantz
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Lucky mechanic. Created Woody Woodpecker, Andy Panda and Chilly Willy.
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Chuck Jones
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Born in Spokane WA 1912. Drew with dads leftover supplies. Learned under Tex Avery at Warner Bros. Created Coyote and Roadrunner, Pepe Lepew, Marvin Martian.
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William Hannah & Joseph Barbera
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Worked with Tex Avery at MGM on Tom and Jerry. Left MGM for own TV studio. Created Scooby Doo, Yogi Bear, Flintstones, Jetsons, Johnny Quest. Died in 2001 and 2007 respectively.
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Tex Avery
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Master of timing. Exaggerated body language in zany gags. Lost eye in spitball fight. Wife divorced, son dies from heroine, Tex becomes alcoholic, gets lung cancer. Starts making TV commercials, but goes back to cartoons under at Hannah Barbera
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Persistence of vision
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The eye tends to blend different images into one motion.
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Thaumatrope
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Disc with two sides, spins to blend into one image, ex. Birdcage. Invented by John Ayrton Paris.
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Zoetrope
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Hollow drum with slits to see images through. Invented by William Horner
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Kineograph
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Flipbook given away as advertisements. Edison invented a mechanical one.
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Praxinoscope
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Like Zoetrope but with mirrors. Invented by Emile Reynaud, he used projectors and gave 13,000 performances.
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Multi-plane Camera
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Created illusion of 3D. Used by Disney and expensive to use. Invented by William Garity, Ub Iwerks had a similar idea.
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Celluloid Sheets
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Saved time using cel sheets on one background. Patented by Earl Hurd, who teamed up with J.R. Bray and formed a monopoly on animation until the patent expired in 1932.
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Animals in Motion
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Book read by Disney thet got him interested in animation. Written by Eadvard Muybridge.
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Earl Hurd
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Created Celluloid Sheets got monopoly on cartooning with JR Bray
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William Garity
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Created Multi plane Camera
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Emile Reynaud
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Praxinoscope
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William Horner
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Created Zoetrope
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John Ayrton Paris
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Created Thaumatrope
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Thomas Edison
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Created mechanical Kineograph
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Ub Iwerks
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Partnered with Disney.
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Margaret Winkler
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Bought Disney's productions from New York.
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