Abdul Sami-Week 3-Prompt 1

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.