Daily Archives: March 7, 2023

The short film I chose to write about is The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926).

 I was immediately drawn to the film when I heard the inspiration for this film is from one of the stories in an Arabic book called 1001 nights which is a book I’ve read and loved and I was interested in seeing the inspiration within the film. The technique that was used in the film is what stood out to me the most because it was so artistically detailed.

-The person who created the animation

-The development of how the film was made

– techniques that were used 

-Where the inspiration is from

-What happened after it was made and how it affected the film industry.

The short film I will be focusing on is Gertie the Dinosaur. I was drawn to this film because I love how smooth the movements of Gertie are and how it must have been very new for people when it came out. I have seen the animation many times before but I have never really dived deep into it. Some elements that I will be focusing on are how Gertie the Dinosaur was a stepping stone for modern animation and diving deep into the processes such as keyframing and paper animation that are so important to the industry today. Additionally, I want to talk about how creating a convincing character was portrayed by Gertie the Dinosaur as Winsor McCay most likely had to put a lot of time and effort studying dinosaurs to create Gertie in a way that was simple to animate but still gave the audience the idea of a dinosaur as it is not a current living creature.

The Film that I’m going to be writing about is “Gertie the Dinosaur”

Since I am very interested in history, Winsor McCay’s film is what introduced animation to our world. Winsor McCay’s film prove to us that animation can feel realistic and true to our eyes. he’s the one that open up the doors of animation.

The Subject of this Short Writing:

– Development of this Animation

– The Developer of this Animation

– How did they come up with the idea

-What happened after the film was out.