In the early animations of Winsor McCay’s “Gertie the Dinosaur” and Emile Cohl’s “Fantasmagorie”, both have black and white colors and that the main characters use the background for their actions. Gertie uses it for eating and drinking whereas the stick man in “Fantasmagorie” uses it for cosplaying into different people by taking and wearing whatever he is surrounded with. The difference between the two is that the background is white and the lines to be black in “Gertie the Dinosaur” but for “Fantasmarie”, the background is fully black and the lines to be white which means the animation’s background is only objects but not any specific places like for Gertie, where there is a landscape. Another difference is that Gertie has interactions with the animator and the audience but the person in “Fantasmagorie” acts on its own and has makes no difference no matter what the audience’s reactions are. Besides these two differences, the two are pretty much common in all of the styles.
Daily Archives: February 26, 2022
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The reason that many early animated films were based on print comics is because comic books were very popular with a lot of people and it was very enjoyable to read comic books at the time. Also, it was relaxing to remove thoughts of problems and times of war like the First World War. Comics used to be on newspapers illustrating comedy or even war comics that had funny political figures. Creating an animated film based on print comics was a brilliant idea because the film is based on comic books that people already recognize through knowing the main characters or superheroes that they like.
